There is a difference between being insensitive and racism. There is a difference between flatout defaming a racial or ethnic group and doing something that irritates people. People are going to bring their own interpretation when viewing things. How much of the uproar is from creator and how much is from the viewer? Where do you draw the line?
Can you even explain what the difference is between "intentional" and "unintentional" racism?
Have you seen all three of the adds? When I saw the adds I saw two people fighting. It might have just as well been two white people or two black people, or two a red and a blue person. With the way that the white person was very white and the way the black person was very black, it was very surreal. It was not realistic at all. Anybody offended by it was attaching their own meaning to it which is entirely possible, and people can't help it. But there are people like me who were brought up being blind to race. Seeing people as people. Personifying the fight of the black psp vs the white psp isn't inherently racist unless you bring your own baggage along. The only thing I got out of it was "Cool another sony product I'm not going to buy."
I agree. The company is more than one person there are probably hundreds of people working there. As management it is your job to make sure that the people there continue to get paid. If one person is making it impossible(or harder) to do that then you're doing a disservice to those hundreds of other people by not letting that person go. If your options are Paying 501 people for a couple more months or paying 500 indefinately the decision is simple. That's more than likely a gross exageration of the situation, but we don't know the details at all. It's silly for us to be arguing without knowing anything and if he really feels he was wronged, it will be settled in court.
Of course we don't have the whole story. You don't fire people just because it's fun and games. It's entirely possible that he broke the contract first somehow.
It was like a 60 minute wait. The second thunderfury to be crafted on draenor was about to happen. My computer crashed. I went to log on and I was 766 in queue.
I hated the way cutscenes work in RE4. Sure it gives you some interaction, but It was kind of surprising. The first couple of times I would set the controller down, grab my drink and see "SMASH (A)", and then WTF I'm dead?
It wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't made it look like such an obvious cutscene with the fans camera angles/pans/wipes and whatever. Having to go back and do everything over just because I wasn't paying attention to the usual dull cutscene was kind of annoying.
Microsoft products for the most part do work pretty well out of the box. Its unfortunate that they don't adhere to any standards that are created by somebody other than themselves.
Microsoft products may seem to be great to the end user. But for developers a lot of the way they do things can really be a headache. About 6 months after windows was released I was trying to use the IMAPI to automate CD burning. The API was so poorly documented. I had to look at the method signatures in the DLL to guess at what I needed to do in order to get things to work sometimes. In linux I can just look at the source and I'll be able to get some clue as to what is going on. Or the developer who put in some API will have a tutorial because he'll want people using it. It's just more in-line with my way of thought as a developer.
I think all of the OSes mentioned have a place.
I think MacOS is hands-down the best operating system for people who are new to computers or don't use comptures often. It stresses simplicity over everything else. It works, its pretty, its fun. It just works
Windows I don't know about it. It has become the defacto OS. Its greatest strength is its ubiquity. This means there is a huge software base for it. The operating system itself may have issues, but the strong software base keeps it alive.
Linux/BSDs have their place. They're not quite yet ready for desktop though the first incarnations are there and they're getting stronger. Right now the biggest value is the ability to run a homogenous OS on heterogenous hardware. You tweak it, you can play with it. Its solid and doesn't do anything more than you to tell it to.
Its not a question of which operating system is better, its which operating system is better for the situation. That's what seems to be constantly overlooked.
But where do you draw the line? The physics/mechanics of the game are just as much a part of the games as the models and skins if not more. Changing the the state of a door is more of a change than changing a skin.
Its the same business model as Diablo II. I don't see how its any different. Instead of creating matchups in the BNet client you make matchups in towns where you can only see 10% of the people actually in the town because the other 90% are in a different instance of the town.
But he was served an ip over DHCP, which is basically like sitting outside saying "HEY can I come in and have a seat?" And you replying "Yes, sit in that seat there"
UT2K4 runs great under linux. It behaves itself better under linux than windows, in my experience.
I haven't tried Doom3 but there is supposed to be a linux version. There are starting to be some games out there that will run native in linux. This is a good thing. I've had good experience running some games in wine/cedega. Some games could be better but all in all its not a bad experience.
I started using solely linux around 4 years ago. One of the first things I did was install apache and play around with that. I got it working with a little effort. After that I always built it from scratch. I eventually decided to try using apache out of the portage tree and it was set up as soon as I ran emerge and setup the configs in/etc/conf.d I've been using the gentoo build ever since then.
Anyways I had to develop some webapp and my boss wanted me to do it in php on IIS. We had a hell of a time getting all of the authentication and settings, we couldn't quite get it all working. We had trouble with ssl and a few other things. so my co-worker and I dropped apache on it and got it working with SSL in about 10 minutes.
I guess the short version of the story is: Hire MS sys admins for MS systems and here Linux sys admins for Linux systems. Rather than saying one is easier than the other, it might be better to say that one comes more naturally to a given user. And since I'm at a school with a bunch of nerds and almost all of the people I know prefer to run linux, there's a good chance that we can probably get something like apache setup more easily than IIS.
While this may be true in general, the WRT54G and WT54Gs(same thing with twice the ram and twice the flash). are probably the best two accesspoints availabe.
The nice thing is that you can make your own firmware for these devices. I've got custom firmware that does dns caching, vpn, my custom web interface, port forwarding, nat... I doubt there's any high-end devices that allow you to do that asside from put a wireless card inside a computer.
if you want more info look at seattle wireless or find sthe sveasoft page
over 40% had hyperthreading... and fewer than 3% actually had processors that support hyperthreading(>3ghz). Something is up with those "other settings"
Dhrystone and Whetstone should show almost no difference in performance w/ w/0 Hyperthreading. The HT just allows the Superscalar superpipelined processor to stick multiple threads on the same processor at the same time.
So what may be interesting would be to run both dhrystone and whetsone at the same time. Seeing as then you'd be using the ALU and floating point unit. That should show a large difference in the performance w/ w/o HT.
My guess is that this probably has something to do with the fact that some languages have the ability to natively parse their own code. I know this is the case with scheme. I know this language is based of lisp as is scheme, so I'm geussing that this is probably part of the reason why there is such a huge difference in the. The XL version probably doesn't have to deal with memory management or raw parsing of the text.
I wrote a scheme interpreter in scheme for a class and its at someting around 800 lines of code, and I'm sure that the Chez scheme probably has a significantly larger amount of code than that.
I've got an IRiver MP3 player. It works with linux when its running the UMS firmware. The mic works pretty well. I use it to record meetings when my other group members can't attend meetings. Maybe be more costly than you're looking for and the storage isn't removable.
WiFi on the Aibos is nothing new. We have a few "older" Aibos. They all of pcmcia wireless cards. They don't support wep, but I'm not too worried about somebody sniffing packets while the dogs talk to each other. The funny part is that the pcmcia slot is in the rear of the dogs between the legs. You gotta stick card in the dog's ass. I guess if the wifi is built in, its more humain than the sepository form.
I've not seen Ogg Theora in action, but I have seen xvid do wonders. I'm sure there are many other options.
The problem is just getting people encoding the video to realize what a pain in the ass it will be for the end user to view the video they are encoding. If they've been using divX, they're going to continue to do so especially if they've actually purchased the software.
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There is a difference between being insensitive and racism. There is a difference between flatout defaming a racial or ethnic group and doing something that irritates people. People are going to bring their own interpretation when viewing things. How much of the uproar is from creator and how much is from the viewer? Where do you draw the line?
Can you even explain what the difference is between "intentional" and "unintentional" racism? Have you seen all three of the adds? When I saw the adds I saw two people fighting. It might have just as well been two white people or two black people, or two a red and a blue person. With the way that the white person was very white and the way the black person was very black, it was very surreal. It was not realistic at all. Anybody offended by it was attaching their own meaning to it which is entirely possible, and people can't help it. But there are people like me who were brought up being blind to race. Seeing people as people. Personifying the fight of the black psp vs the white psp isn't inherently racist unless you bring your own baggage along. The only thing I got out of it was "Cool another sony product I'm not going to buy."
I agree. The company is more than one person there are probably hundreds of people working there. As management it is your job to make sure that the people there continue to get paid. If one person is making it impossible(or harder) to do that then you're doing a disservice to those hundreds of other people by not letting that person go. If your options are Paying 501 people for a couple more months or paying 500 indefinately the decision is simple. That's more than likely a gross exageration of the situation, but we don't know the details at all. It's silly for us to be arguing without knowing anything and if he really feels he was wronged, it will be settled in court.
Of course we don't have the whole story. You don't fire people just because it's fun and games. It's entirely possible that he broke the contract first somehow.
It was like a 60 minute wait. The second thunderfury to be crafted on draenor was about to happen. My computer crashed. I went to log on and I was 766 in queue.
I hated the way cutscenes work in RE4. Sure it gives you some interaction, but It was kind of surprising. The first couple of times I would set the controller down, grab my drink and see "SMASH (A)", and then WTF I'm dead? It wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't made it look like such an obvious cutscene with the fans camera angles/pans/wipes and whatever. Having to go back and do everything over just because I wasn't paying attention to the usual dull cutscene was kind of annoying.
This article will probably help you understand it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Microsoft products for the most part do work pretty well out of the box. Its unfortunate that they don't adhere to any standards that are created by somebody other than themselves. Microsoft products may seem to be great to the end user. But for developers a lot of the way they do things can really be a headache. About 6 months after windows was released I was trying to use the IMAPI to automate CD burning. The API was so poorly documented. I had to look at the method signatures in the DLL to guess at what I needed to do in order to get things to work sometimes. In linux I can just look at the source and I'll be able to get some clue as to what is going on. Or the developer who put in some API will have a tutorial because he'll want people using it. It's just more in-line with my way of thought as a developer. I think all of the OSes mentioned have a place. I think MacOS is hands-down the best operating system for people who are new to computers or don't use comptures often. It stresses simplicity over everything else. It works, its pretty, its fun. It just works Windows I don't know about it. It has become the defacto OS. Its greatest strength is its ubiquity. This means there is a huge software base for it. The operating system itself may have issues, but the strong software base keeps it alive. Linux/BSDs have their place. They're not quite yet ready for desktop though the first incarnations are there and they're getting stronger. Right now the biggest value is the ability to run a homogenous OS on heterogenous hardware. You tweak it, you can play with it. Its solid and doesn't do anything more than you to tell it to. Its not a question of which operating system is better, its which operating system is better for the situation. That's what seems to be constantly overlooked.
But where do you draw the line? The physics/mechanics of the game are just as much a part of the games as the models and skins if not more. Changing the the state of a door is more of a change than changing a skin.
Either way you still have to actually change the game to see it.
Its the same business model as Diablo II. I don't see how its any different. Instead of creating matchups in the BNet client you make matchups in towns where you can only see 10% of the people actually in the town because the other 90% are in a different instance of the town.
But he was served an ip over DHCP, which is basically like sitting outside saying "HEY can I come in and have a seat?" And you replying "Yes, sit in that seat there"
UT2K4 runs great under linux. It behaves itself better under linux than windows, in my experience. I haven't tried Doom3 but there is supposed to be a linux version. There are starting to be some games out there that will run native in linux. This is a good thing. I've had good experience running some games in wine/cedega. Some games could be better but all in all its not a bad experience.
I guess I can see how you would come to this.
/etc/conf.d I've been using the gentoo build ever since then.
I started using solely linux around 4 years ago. One of the first things I did was install apache and play around with that. I got it working with a little effort. After that I always built it from scratch. I eventually decided to try using apache out of the portage tree and it was set up as soon as I ran emerge and setup the configs in
Anyways I had to develop some webapp and my boss wanted me to do it in php on IIS. We had a hell of a time getting all of the authentication and settings, we couldn't quite get it all working. We had trouble with ssl and a few other things. so my co-worker and I dropped apache on it and got it working with SSL in about 10 minutes.
I guess the short version of the story is: Hire MS sys admins for MS systems and here Linux sys admins for Linux systems. Rather than saying one is easier than the other, it might be better to say that one comes more naturally to a given user. And since I'm at a school with a bunch of nerds and almost all of the people I know prefer to run linux, there's a good chance that we can probably get something like apache setup more easily than IIS.
Some people still don't know how many pounds are in stone!
While this may be true in general, the WRT54G and WT54Gs(same thing with twice the ram and twice the flash). are probably the best two accesspoints availabe. The nice thing is that you can make your own firmware for these devices. I've got custom firmware that does dns caching, vpn, my custom web interface, port forwarding, nat... I doubt there's any high-end devices that allow you to do that asside from put a wireless card inside a computer. if you want more info look at seattle wireless or find sthe sveasoft page
over 40% had hyperthreading... and fewer than 3% actually had processors that support hyperthreading(>3ghz). Something is up with those "other settings"
That's all fine and well,butThe higher elements seem to be pretty worthless. Let me know when they discover jumbonium.
Dhrystone and Whetstone should show almost no difference in performance w/ w/0 Hyperthreading. The HT just allows the Superscalar superpipelined processor to stick multiple threads on the same processor at the same time.
So what may be interesting would be to run both dhrystone and whetsone at the same time. Seeing as then you'd be using the ALU and floating point unit. That should show a large difference in the performance w/ w/o HT.
My guess is that this probably has something to do with the fact that some languages have the ability to natively parse their own code. I know this is the case with scheme. I know this language is based of lisp as is scheme, so I'm geussing that this is probably part of the reason why there is such a huge difference in the. The XL version probably doesn't have to deal with memory management or raw parsing of the text. I wrote a scheme interpreter in scheme for a class and its at someting around 800 lines of code, and I'm sure that the Chez scheme probably has a significantly larger amount of code than that.
I've got an IRiver MP3 player. It works with linux when its running the UMS firmware. The mic works pretty well. I use it to record meetings when my other group members can't attend meetings. Maybe be more costly than you're looking for and the storage isn't removable.
WiFi on the Aibos is nothing new.
We have a few "older" Aibos. They all of pcmcia wireless cards. They don't support wep, but I'm not too worried about somebody sniffing packets while the dogs talk to each other. The funny part is that the pcmcia slot is in the rear of the dogs between the legs. You gotta stick card in the dog's ass. I guess if the wifi is built in, its more humain than the sepository form.
I've not seen Ogg Theora in action, but I have seen xvid do wonders. I'm sure there are many other options.
The problem is just getting people encoding the video to realize what a pain in the ass it will be for the end user to view the video they are encoding. If they've been using divX, they're going to continue to do so especially if they've actually purchased the software.
Even when used by rank hypocrites like SCO.
that's a nice touch
Hey I had that IP First