Programmers are NOT engineers. We don't spend 4+ years studying the mathematics and physics of our discipline to be compared with someone who knows how to "code".
One takes hard work and effort, the other doesn't even come close.
I'm really surprised they are showing Evangelion on CN. Despite what was said above, it is very violent and very sexually suggestive for kids. I'm guessing it is only the first two episodes, which are very light compared to some of the later episodes. If you haven't seen the greatest anime series of all time, I hope you get to see the two episodes shown this week!
This game suffers from the same thing SimCity 4 does - Rediculous end use requirements. I have what I think is a pretty damn decent system w/ a 1.6 Ghz processor and geforce 4. To have it stutter constantly is rediculous. What the hell is wrong with EA lately?
1) Finish the ISS and follow the original plans to be a 7 man station. The amount of research from a permanent outpost in space is well worth the amount of money.
2) Replace the shuttle program. The shuttle has served its purpose as a reusable space vehicle. But it's design is 30 years old and needs to be replaced.
The upfront costs would be steep, but it will save you billions in the long run. A fleet of four (Now 3) 2 billion dollar shuttles that launch at max 6 times a year for 500 million a shot IS NOT the way to go. We need something that can launch us into space for less then 50 million, carry more cargo, and have a turn around of at least once a month. This is even worse then the shuttles initial promises, but it's something that could easily be obtainable with today's technology.
3) The private sector needs to get involved. Space elevators and the like would be a tremendous boom to really entering the next frontier. What if your University only had to pay 10k to send up into space their newest experiement? Think of the boon to technology then.
...is the constant use of the term engineer in this article. Using the term IT-engineer does a diservice to all of us who put in the many long hours for a solid college education. Your piddly 30 day ceritification doesn't make you an engineer.
The example they provide is a good logical one. If the sun was removed from the solar system by some magical means, we wouldn't feel it (or see it) for another 8 minutes.
I played EQ for most of the past 3 years since it came out. I would play on my least active days only 4 hours; most of the time it was 8-10 hours of eq. From the moment I got off my classes to 4 am in the morning...stopping only to grab dinner and do a little studying.
The game is as the man says - Pure addiction. I finally quit a few months ago and it was harder then when I quit smoking. Smoking might have been tough physically with the shakes, but theres nothing like the feeling you've lost 60 of your best friends in a high level guild that raids together EVERY night. It's hard to replace a dedicated 4 hour block evernight where you win, lose, and struggle together as a team.
Now at least those 8 hours a day can be used to study for Circuits!
John Lott did an excellent job on this book and I would recomend it to anyone. It shows pretty conclusively that concealed handgun laws hinder crime.
The criminals mindset is self-preservation. If he doesn't know if Joe Blow off the street is carrying a handgun in his jacket or grandma has a pistol in her purse, is he really going to chance robbing the person? Statistics in the book show that in states with concealed handgun laws, the probability is less.
I remember first playing Tetris on the gameboy and man did that simplistic game suck a ton of time out of my life. It never got old and I every game just felt like a unique experience. I'm going have to dig out my ole 'boy and see if it still runs!
What a shame that this new NASA bigwig is robbing the bank. Exploration and scientific research are extremely important in both the scientific findings and the future frontiers we settle as a civilization.
It wasn't cheap for Columbus to find a path to the Indies or for the mission to be successful at all. But yet it was done. And even in his failure to find the East; Columbus paved the way for future generations.
It wasn't cheap to get a rocket into space for the first time, yet the scientific and real world developments that came out of it have far surpassed the cost. It will be the same for the ISS.
I'm afraid we will have to turn to private business to pave the way into space for us. The group that wants to mine the moon for H-3 is a good start.
I agree with you there on the community college thing. I took all my calculus courses at a community college and I learned a lot more from my professors there then I did at the University when I took diff eq. The small classroom sizes and the ability to reach professors much more easily makes CC a real plus. I came into college not knowing what I wanted to do and really disliking math, and now I'm a Electrical Engineering major!
Having played for a couple weeks now I must say I am pretty damned impressed with what Blizzard has done with the game. It's not revolutionary or anything like that, but the single player campaign is just pure fun. The storyline is great, the battles are great (Though mostly easy up until the last one), and the cinematics are beautiful. The new hero systems is pretty neat as well, it adds a completely new dimension to the genre.
I wasn't impressed with the beta multiplayer on battle.net so I'm looking forward to getting a real copy and seeing how it performs.
Now the wait begins for Worlds of Warcraft...
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hahaha, mere engineering? Are you kidding me? Programmers are called code monkeys for a reason.
Programmers are NOT engineers. We don't spend 4+ years studying the mathematics and physics of our discipline to be compared with someone who knows how to "code".
One takes hard work and effort, the other doesn't even come close.
10-15%? Where do you get that statistic from? It is complete balony to believe that 1 in every 10 or 3 in every 20 are gay.
These articles seem to want to blame all of the worlds ills on genetics.
OJ wasn't a murder because he is a rotten individual, his genes made him do it!
Oh and my favorite...gays are born that way.
It seems that everytime someone experiences abnormal behavior, these scientists want to blame it on genetics. Give me a break.
LotR used two well known actors and they both did a marvelous job. It wasn't the well known actors or CG that fucked up Episodes I and II.
I'm really surprised they are showing Evangelion on CN. Despite what was said above, it is very violent and very sexually suggestive for kids. I'm guessing it is only the first two episodes, which are very light compared to some of the later episodes. If you haven't seen the greatest anime series of all time, I hope you get to see the two episodes shown this week!
This game suffers from the same thing SimCity 4 does - Rediculous end use requirements. I have what I think is a pretty damn decent system w/ a 1.6 Ghz processor and geforce 4. To have it stutter constantly is rediculous. What the hell is wrong with EA lately?
1) Finish the ISS and follow the original plans to be a 7 man station. The amount of research from a permanent outpost in space is well worth the amount of money.
2) Replace the shuttle program. The shuttle has served its purpose as a reusable space vehicle. But it's design is 30 years old and needs to be replaced.
The upfront costs would be steep, but it will save you billions in the long run. A fleet of four (Now 3) 2 billion dollar shuttles that launch at max 6 times a year for 500 million a shot IS NOT the way to go. We need something that can launch us into space for less then 50 million, carry more cargo, and have a turn around of at least once a month. This is even worse then the shuttles initial promises, but it's something that could easily be obtainable with today's technology.
3) The private sector needs to get involved. Space elevators and the like would be a tremendous boom to really entering the next frontier. What if your University only had to pay 10k to send up into space their newest experiement? Think of the boon to technology then.
...is the constant use of the term engineer in this article. Using the term IT-engineer does a diservice to all of us who put in the many long hours for a solid college education. Your piddly 30 day ceritification doesn't make you an engineer.
The example they provide is a good logical one. If the sun was removed from the solar system by some magical means, we wouldn't feel it (or see it) for another 8 minutes.
I played EQ for most of the past 3 years since it came out. I would play on my least active days only 4 hours; most of the time it was 8-10 hours of eq. From the moment I got off my classes to 4 am in the morning...stopping only to grab dinner and do a little studying.
The game is as the man says - Pure addiction. I finally quit a few months ago and it was harder then when I quit smoking. Smoking might have been tough physically with the shakes, but theres nothing like the feeling you've lost 60 of your best friends in a high level guild that raids together EVERY night. It's hard to replace a dedicated 4 hour block evernight where you win, lose, and struggle together as a team.
Now at least those 8 hours a day can be used to study for Circuits!
John Lott did an excellent job on this book and I would recomend it to anyone. It shows pretty conclusively that concealed handgun laws hinder crime.
The criminals mindset is self-preservation. If he doesn't know if Joe Blow off the street is carrying a handgun in his jacket or grandma has a pistol in her purse, is he really going to chance robbing the person? Statistics in the book show that in states with concealed handgun laws, the probability is less.
Raid is not a means of combatting unreliabillity.
P(A intersect B) = P(A | B) * P(B)
Where,
Event A = first drive failing
Event B = second drive failing
...only give the other side more ammunition.
I remember first playing Tetris on the gameboy and man did that simplistic game suck a ton of time out of my life. It never got old and I every game just felt like a unique experience. I'm going have to dig out my ole 'boy and see if it still runs!
...90% of the population is poor.
What a shame that this new NASA bigwig is robbing the bank. Exploration and scientific research are extremely important in both the scientific findings and the future frontiers we settle as a civilization.
It wasn't cheap for Columbus to find a path to the Indies or for the mission to be successful at all. But yet it was done. And even in his failure to find the East; Columbus paved the way for future generations.
It wasn't cheap to get a rocket into space for the first time, yet the scientific and real world developments that came out of it have far surpassed the cost. It will be the same for the ISS.
I'm afraid we will have to turn to private business to pave the way into space for us. The group that wants to mine the moon for H-3 is a good start.
I agree with you there on the community college thing. I took all my calculus courses at a community college and I learned a lot more from my professors there then I did at the University when I took diff eq. The small classroom sizes and the ability to reach professors much more easily makes CC a real plus. I came into college not knowing what I wanted to do and really disliking math, and now I'm a Electrical Engineering major!
Good luck at whatever you do.
Having played for a couple weeks now I must say I am pretty damned impressed with what Blizzard has done with the game. It's not revolutionary or anything like that, but the single player campaign is just pure fun. The storyline is great, the battles are great (Though mostly easy up until the last one), and the cinematics are beautiful. The new hero systems is pretty neat as well, it adds a completely new dimension to the genre. I wasn't impressed with the beta multiplayer on battle.net so I'm looking forward to getting a real copy and seeing how it performs. Now the wait begins for Worlds of Warcraft...
Wow someone who agrees with me on R&S. All my friends used to love that show and I just purely hated it for the reasons above.