..we raise our children to "not judge books by their cover", and then turn around and do just that.
But the "cover" can tell you a lot about the person inside;P.
I think you're confusing the "cover" (race/gender) with personal attire (which can be changed in a few minutes). It may sound superficial but a lot of people do find that personal attire tells a lot about you, regardless of what whether you're employed, a student or just walking through a mall..
He also says money normally spent on textbooks would be used to pay for the laptops for Brazilian schoolchildren. "I'm very optimistic," he says, giving the project a "70 to 80%" chance of being launched in the country.
I'm sorry but does anyone else see a problem here? I know lots of us here would like to have every single person wired and staring into a monitor to do just about everything but I find this a bit uncomfortable. As a graduating computer engineer, I find that having a book is still much better than reading it off a monitor. Maybe it's just me, but I certainly hope this doesn't backfire on them..
Engineering and science programs are DYING here in Ontario, Canada. The college I'm currently attending is not taking any new students for their Electrical and Computer Engineering programs. There just aren't enough applicants. Part-time instructors have been laid off, and the full-time ones are literally campaigning throughout the province's high schools to get students interested in Engineering programs.
From what I hear, it's not really the students that are to blame. Fellow students and instructors have repeatedly stated that high schools here have been actively DISCOURAGING students from Engineering because they're "dead-end" jobs. Most still think that we're in some sort of dot-com bust..
The main reason I joined a PvP server was because PvP would have an honour system that included a penalty on dishonourable kills. It was supposed to make ganking less desirable as you'd lose reputation with your own faction for killing PCs that were way below your level. With dishonourable kills not affecting a player and the nice items/armour/weapons one can obtain for killing by the dozens (and then having to keep killing by the dozens so your items remain equip-able), ganking is on the rise. I'm not cancelling my account, but I've started drifting towards Normal (PvE) servers now.
I guess the gist of it is that if I had known the honour system was going to be like this, I would've just started on a Normal server rather than waste all this time making a semi-decent group of characters that now go through daily griefing.
If I were the editor, I would've stopped and deleted your letter as soon as I read "Paul really doesn't do his homework, does he?". If you really want to criticise someone's actions, please do it in a constructive manner.
There have been 3 or more fan-made Chrono Trigger remakes. Dozens of Chrono Trigger fan-sequels. A fan-made CHRONO TRIGGER NOVEL. Thousands of websites dedicated to the game. And what do we see? Chrono Cross (bleh). Cease and desist letters to arguably the best of the fan-made remakes. Really though..does Square-Enix hate the Chrono Trigger universe that much?
And now on the other side we have..a FF7 side-game. Advent Children. Before Crisis. What's going on here? Square-Enix, are you too afraid to explore any other universe other than the FF one?
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I see. Thanks!
Call me ignorant perhaps..
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But what the heck does "Semper WiFi" mean? Is this the name of the system? Is this an American idiom or phrase?
Seriously. I remember some people on a gaming forum talking about what it would be like if there were a Pokemon MMORPG. It definitely has the potential for being one at least..
BeOS/QNX/etc were a lot spiffier, and they didn't survive.
As previously mentioned, QNX is alive and well. It has never been targeted as a desktop alternative OS;it's an embedded developer OS. So just because you've never seen it "grow" in the desktop OS market doesn't mean it's dead. Please check your facts before posting in the future.
As far as I can remember, this particular games uses TCP instead of UDP. Why? Because everything has to be synched or you'll run into problems, such as launching a spell at a monster who's already moved away from the area of effect, etc..
This is actually quite interesting, definitely not a troll. We see so many great tools out there with lots of features, but if Audacity is all one can find on Windows when it comes to Free, then this sort of comparison is moot.
This sorta brings back some of the discussions from previous stories.
And in some respects, I'd have to say the same as the parent's parent post. I would not want to have my child learn everything from a computer. I'd rather have them learn to read, write, and most importantly THINK before learning how to program or compile kernels. NOT that I'm critizising the parent post, but I personally don't find the parent's parent post to be the stupidest idea at all.
On a relatedly unrelated note..
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Anyone know how the beez::svg project is going? It would be really nice if this app took off one day...
Yes the article states that they are ditching MS, but other than stating the openness of Symbian source code, there doesn't seem to be any specific reference stating that Sendo ditches Windows because it "can't get Microsoft source".
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But the "cover" can tell you a lot about the person inside ;P.
I think you're confusing the "cover" (race/gender) with personal attire (which can be changed in a few minutes). It may sound superficial but a lot of people do find that personal attire tells a lot about you, regardless of what whether you're employed, a student or just walking through a mall..He also says money normally spent on textbooks would be used to pay for the laptops for Brazilian schoolchildren. "I'm very optimistic," he says, giving the project a "70 to 80%" chance of being launched in the country.
I'm sorry but does anyone else see a problem here? I know lots of us here would like to have every single person wired and staring into a monitor to do just about everything but I find this a bit uncomfortable. As a graduating computer engineer, I find that having a book is still much better than reading it off a monitor. Maybe it's just me, but I certainly hope this doesn't backfire on them..
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/16/18
Yeah..a dupe..
Some information on their spacecraft design..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_spacecraft/
Engineering and science programs are DYING here in Ontario, Canada. The college I'm currently attending is not taking any new students for their Electrical and Computer Engineering programs. There just aren't enough applicants. Part-time instructors have been laid off, and the full-time ones are literally campaigning throughout the province's high schools to get students interested in Engineering programs.
From what I hear, it's not really the students that are to blame. Fellow students and instructors have repeatedly stated that high schools here have been actively DISCOURAGING students from Engineering because they're "dead-end" jobs. Most still think that we're in some sort of dot-com bust..
The main reason I joined a PvP server was because PvP would have an honour system that included a penalty on dishonourable kills. It was supposed to make ganking less desirable as you'd lose reputation with your own faction for killing PCs that were way below your level. With dishonourable kills not affecting a player and the nice items/armour/weapons one can obtain for killing by the dozens (and then having to keep killing by the dozens so your items remain equip-able), ganking is on the rise. I'm not cancelling my account, but I've started drifting towards Normal (PvE) servers now.
I guess the gist of it is that if I had known the honour system was going to be like this, I would've just started on a Normal server rather than waste all this time making a semi-decent group of characters that now go through daily griefing.
Considering I was browsing with tabs before Mozilla/Firefox ever had them..I'd say they'd be fools NOT to have tabs..
If I were the editor, I would've stopped and deleted your letter as soon as I read "Paul really doesn't do his homework, does he?". If you really want to criticise someone's actions, please do it in a constructive manner.
Amnesty International's report on the USA is worth a read as well: http://web.amnesty.org/report2004/usa-summary-eng
There have been 3 or more fan-made Chrono Trigger remakes. Dozens of Chrono Trigger fan-sequels. A fan-made CHRONO TRIGGER NOVEL. Thousands of websites dedicated to the game. And what do we see? Chrono Cross (bleh). Cease and desist letters to arguably the best of the fan-made remakes. Really though..does Square-Enix hate the Chrono Trigger universe that much?
And now on the other side we have..a FF7 side-game. Advent Children. Before Crisis. What's going on here? Square-Enix, are you too afraid to explore any other universe other than the FF one?
I see. Thanks!
But what the heck does "Semper WiFi" mean? Is this the name of the system? Is this an American idiom or phrase?
Seriously. I remember some people on a gaming forum talking about what it would be like if there were a Pokemon MMORPG. It definitely has the potential for being one at least..
BeOS/QNX/etc were a lot spiffier, and they didn't survive.
;it's an embedded developer OS. So just because you've never seen it "grow" in the desktop OS market doesn't mean it's dead. Please check your facts before posting in the future.
As previously mentioned, QNX is alive and well. It has never been targeted as a desktop alternative OS
'Electric armour' vaporises anti-tank grenades and shells By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 19/08/2002)
As far as I can remember, this particular games uses TCP instead of UDP. Why? Because everything has to be synched or you'll run into problems, such as launching a spell at a monster who's already moved away from the area of effect, etc..
This is actually quite interesting, definitely not a troll. We see so many great tools out there with lots of features, but if Audacity is all one can find on Windows when it comes to Free, then this sort of comparison is moot.
This sorta brings back some of the discussions from previous stories.
And in some respects, I'd have to say the same as the parent's parent post. I would not want to have my child learn everything from a computer. I'd rather have them learn to read, write, and most importantly THINK before learning how to program or compile kernels. NOT that I'm critizising the parent post, but I personally don't find the parent's parent post to be the stupidest idea at all.
Anyone know how the beez::svg project is going? It would be really nice if this app took off one day...
QNX is close enough. Here's some examples from their website.
From the article:
"Someone somewhere must be dreaming of a massively multiplayer redo of Tetris."
Seems like the journalist never heard of Netris, one of the cooler multi-player tetris clones.
Chrono Trigger, the only game I truly like from Square wasn't even done wholly be them? Figures.
Yes the article states that they are ditching MS, but other than stating the openness of Symbian source code, there doesn't seem to be any specific reference stating that Sendo ditches Windows because it "can't get Microsoft source".
Link here: http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926 .html
..but how many more physicists out there could be falsifying results, data, etc.?