We used to call this "gains in efficiency" with increased production from less labour. It is what drove the industrial revolution and has been responsible for the high standard of living and low priced commodities we enjoy today.
If you want multi user video conferencing, not all are created equal. After trying many products, I settled on OOVOO because of reasonable cost (free for two-way, pay for more), quality (excellent), and features (even higher quality video and ability to chat with those who don't have the application installed).
Definitely an option for those of us who are mere mortals...
While they talk about recharging the car between races, there is a diagram on their website http://www.green-gt.com/index.htm that illustrates that they will be using Hydrogen to store the energy and using fuel cells to generate electricity.
I think you miss the point of the original suggestion of Excel as a tool that it is the VBA behind the scenes that is the real tool. You are absolutely right that merely using the spreadsheet functionality in Excel is extremely limiting, but once you peel back the cover, there is a lot that you can do very quickly.
In my mind, the real weakness of Excel is in the way it handles floating point numbers. Complex calculations in Excel are dicey because of gross rounding and truncation errors.
While Excel may have trouble with the data internally, it is also very easy to manipulate Access or SQL databases from Excel. Do not underestimate this tool's flexibility for prototyping and one-off analysis jobs.
I agree. I walked into my first year of engineering cold as far as programming goes. It would have been a huge benefit to pick up some of those skills earlier.
I agree that knowledge of SQL is hugely usefull in nearly any field of Science and Engineering.
I left school with an Electrical Engineering Degree 4 years ago with 0 experience with Database languages such as SQL and had to learn these things on the fly. Fortunately, it is not essential to learn every language out there all at once.
A good knowledge of the basics (C/C++ and numerical methods) goes a long way and can be used as a springboard to other skills.
You should leave school with the ability to pick up new languages as the need arises, but this requires at least some exposure to these ideas. (Matlab is a fantastic way to become exposed to programming)
The funny thing is that ten years down the road, you'd be better off leaving your money in the bank and buying last year's model for 1.9% or 0% whatever (if you're careful, you can get this rate for the whole term) and then you get an 8-10% marginal return better than where you would be if you had taken the money out of the bank and bought the car outright!
Basically this is twice as good as doing the same on your house.
Though not a flash game, http://www.tribalwars.net/ is a browser-based game set in the Middle Ages. Every player controls a small village, striving for power and glory.
They have 12 worlds and nearly a half a million users. It doesn't require too much attention every day, but you do the best if you log in to play at least twice a day. Sounds like a lot but really it isn't
This is a MMO that has a time commitment that I can work around!
One thing that used to be in these games and really has been lost is some form of Email based play.
I play my turn and when I end my turn, it passes the game off to you and when you're finished, the game goes to the next person and so on. Finally it gets back to the host who then calculates the AI turns and play continues.
I would really love to be able to play this with friends who don't have the same schedule or can't sit down for 5 hours at a time to do a game but can spare the couple minutes for a turn.
Come to think of it, I can't spare 5++++ hours at a time!
We're also talking America where complex legal and social issues are reduced to 15 second sound bytes for consumption by an unthinking and uncaring mass.
Don't believe every summary you only half read.
That's right, the Copyright owner is the only one who can publish or give permission to publish.
They DID. It was published and that's the only way that the Way Back Machine got it in the first place.
I think you'll find that, if you do some real research rather than just believeing what CNN tells everyone, this "religious intolerance" is true bunk. Muslim states have nearly always been very tolerant of other religions, especially compared to christian states through the ages.
What is at issue to them, I believe is not the west's religion, but our actions and foreign policy. If you spend any time at all reading a full translation of, for instance, one of Bin Ladin's speaches, you will see that it's full of historical references and valid grievances related to past events, rather than the propaganda you get from "Mainstream" western sources.
After looking at the X-Prize site, it doesnt seem that these guys are even official contenders for the X-Prize.
Also, by "sufficiently complete", they mean that the application for a launch contains most of the necessary info, not that their design or some such is sufficient.
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We used to call this "gains in efficiency" with increased production from less labour. It is what drove the industrial revolution and has been responsible for the high standard of living and low priced commodities we enjoy today.
If you want multi user video conferencing, not all are created equal.
After trying many products, I settled on OOVOO because of reasonable cost (free for two-way, pay for more), quality (excellent), and features (even higher quality video and ability to chat with those who don't have the application installed).
Definitely an option for those of us who are mere mortals...
While they talk about recharging the car between races, there is a diagram on their website http://www.green-gt.com/index.htm that illustrates that they will be using Hydrogen to store the energy and using fuel cells to generate electricity.
Unless you only have a small bucket of shit to move in which case the shovel is the right tool for the job!
I think you miss the point of the original suggestion of Excel as a tool that it is the VBA behind the scenes that is the real tool. You are absolutely right that merely using the spreadsheet functionality in Excel is extremely limiting, but once you peel back the cover, there is a lot that you can do very quickly.
In my mind, the real weakness of Excel is in the way it handles floating point numbers. Complex calculations in Excel are dicey because of gross rounding and truncation errors.
While Excel may have trouble with the data internally, it is also very easy to manipulate Access or SQL databases from Excel. Do not underestimate this tool's flexibility for prototyping and one-off analysis jobs.
I agree. I walked into my first year of engineering cold as far as programming goes. It would have been a huge benefit to pick up some of those skills earlier.
I agree that knowledge of SQL is hugely usefull in nearly any field of Science and Engineering.
I left school with an Electrical Engineering Degree 4 years ago with 0 experience with Database languages such as SQL and had to learn these things on the fly. Fortunately, it is not essential to learn every language out there all at once.
A good knowledge of the basics (C/C++ and numerical methods) goes a long way and can be used as a springboard to other skills.
You should leave school with the ability to pick up new languages as the need arises, but this requires at least some exposure to these ideas. (Matlab is a fantastic way to become exposed to programming)
Wrong. You loose. Try again.
The funny thing is that ten years down the road, you'd be better off leaving your money in the bank and buying last year's model for 1.9% or 0% whatever (if you're careful, you can get this rate for the whole term) and then you get an 8-10% marginal return better than where you would be if you had taken the money out of the bank and bought the car outright! Basically this is twice as good as doing the same on your house.
Though not a flash game, http://www.tribalwars.net/ is a browser-based game set in the Middle Ages. Every player controls a small village, striving for power and glory.
They have 12 worlds and nearly a half a million users. It doesn't require too much attention every day, but you do the best if you log in to play at least twice a day. Sounds like a lot but really it isn't
This is a MMO that has a time commitment that I can work around!
Really there should be absolutely no cause to regulate the price of lettuce! So we have a, hopefully, moot point.
One thing that used to be in these games and really has been lost is some form of Email based play. I play my turn and when I end my turn, it passes the game off to you and when you're finished, the game goes to the next person and so on. Finally it gets back to the host who then calculates the AI turns and play continues. I would really love to be able to play this with friends who don't have the same schedule or can't sit down for 5 hours at a time to do a game but can spare the couple minutes for a turn. Come to think of it, I can't spare 5++++ hours at a time!
We're also talking America where complex legal and social issues are reduced to 15 second sound bytes for consumption by an unthinking and uncaring mass. Don't believe every summary you only half read.
That's right, the Copyright owner is the only one who can publish or give permission to publish. They DID. It was published and that's the only way that the Way Back Machine got it in the first place.
I think you'll find that, if you do some real research rather than just believeing what CNN tells everyone, this "religious intolerance" is true bunk. Muslim states have nearly always been very tolerant of other religions, especially compared to christian states through the ages. What is at issue to them, I believe is not the west's religion, but our actions and foreign policy. If you spend any time at all reading a full translation of, for instance, one of Bin Ladin's speaches, you will see that it's full of historical references and valid grievances related to past events, rather than the propaganda you get from "Mainstream" western sources.
After looking at the X-Prize site, it doesnt seem that these guys are even official contenders for the X-Prize. Also, by "sufficiently complete", they mean that the application for a launch contains most of the necessary info, not that their design or some such is sufficient.