*sigh*
I just knew someone would reply like this. Look at what website this is posted on. Look at the name of the column. Now, actually read the article.
It's not a list of demands to game companies. It's some tips for game designers, like pretty much everything on GamaSutra.
One problem is that you'd have to use a web browser in order to connect to some hotspots in restaurants and elsewhere, as they will route your packets to the Internet only if you can connect to an SSL web page and read and accept the TOS.
You can do WiFi in a peer-to-peer manner, you know. If a device can speak 802.11b, it can act as an access point.
With no writable disks present to infect, with nothing, in fact, but a motherboard, CPU, and a 1-gig DDR, I always wondered how it would fare on a network.
You'd still be completely vulnerable to worms that exploit buffer overflows and the like. The only difference is that a reset will cure you.
But I suppose this is what is meant by 'dumb terminals'.
No. Dumb terminals, such as Sun Rays, don't have their own processors and memory.
The thing is, most of the iPod detractors don't seem to figure in the user interface. I've tried all the different devices at Best Buy and any other retailer that has them out to play with. I pretty much concluded that most, if not all of the competitors are quite a bit more clumsy in the UI department than they need to be.
I've played with an iPod mini, and I absolutely hated the interface. Even after using it for an hour or so, I would still describe the wheel as "clumsy". I realize I'm in a minority here, but do keep in mind that the iPod UI is not universally appealing.
Yeah I agree, who would purchase the $299.00 core package when you need to spend another $40.00 to really play (read: save) any of the games that you purchase? Might as well spend the next $60.00 and get everything.
That's exactly what MS marketing wants you to think. It's a great way of convincing people to spend $100 more than they wanted to.
My point was that whereas American Beauty or Monster's Ball or whatever new movie you happen to like a lot is nowhere close to The Seven Samurai and there are hundreds of reasons this is so.
Look, if you want decent films, don't bash the likes of American Beauty. It may not be a stunning masterpiece, but it tried, and it was good. There's plenty of mindless crap you can tear apart.
One advantage that Nigeria has over India, is that the Nigerians' English is very easy to understand.
Interesting. I find Indian accents much easier to understand than Chinese. Not sure if that's due to differences in native language, British colonization, or what. I've only known one Nigerian, and she spoke good English, but she also came from a rather wealthy family. *shrug*
there's little low hanging (or even high hanging) fruit to discover any more.
Hogwash. There's plenty to do in computer science, much of it with practical applications.
Encryption algorithms.
Recognizing speech, text (see the recent 'captcha' article), 3D objects, etc.
Linguistics (eg, translation for natural languages still sucks), which ties into...
AI. As my high school CS teacher said, artificial intelligence still hasn't had its Einstein. There's so much to do, so much potential in this field. A real model of human intelligence seems inevitable, though probably not within our lifetimes.
I shudder to think how much a Blu-ray R or HD-DVD R drive would cost and how long it would take for one of them to burn 50 GB onto a disk.
DVD-Rs were pretty damn expensive when they first came out. Now they're almost as cheap as CD-Rs; you can get a pack of 100 4.7GB DVD-Rs for $25. You can get a do-everything burner (CD-R/RW, DVD+-R/RW) for $50. The new high-capacity media will probably follow a similar path.
AMD already does good business in the server/workstation market, thanks to Sun and others. The truth is that AMD can't handle a huge amount of demand. They're expanding gradually, building fabs with new and better tech to crank out more processors, but they have nowhere near the production capacity of Intel.
How funny, I thought Education was to teach and prepare people...
Good CS programs don't crank out good little code monkeys, just like good undergrad chem programs don't produce lab techs.
In universities, you learn the concepts in class, and you learn how to apply it out of class, through internships, working with professors, tinkering with open-source projects on your own, etc. If you don't want to bother with the concepts, you can go to a trade school and learn all the trendy languages and "technologies", I'm sure.
With no real training in hardware, software programmers really don't know what they are doing, or how to fix something if it goes BOOM.
Er, computer SCIENCE should not deal with hardware beyond a couple digital logic courses. It sounds like you were looking for an MIS degree, not CS.
University science courses are not meant to "prepare someone for the real world". Do I know how to do real chemistry research after taking sophomore organic chemistry? Not really. But I understand the concepts, which is far more important. Likewise, a computer science curriculum should deal with computer science, not too much software engineering and certainly not IT grunt work.
That initial capital investment to build the factories, start the business, ramp up marketing, etc will keep almost everyone from competing head on with you.
I hate replying twice, but I forgot to point out that there are already plenty of businesses that are based solely on making generic drugs. They do very well, even though they have to develop or reverse-engineer the filler. Without patents they'd be able to compete with the original developer almost immediately.
A little IR, NMR, GC/MS, and some experiments to verify the stereochemistry, and you've reverse-engineered the drug for far less than what it cost to originally research. A little extra investment and they can probably develop a better synthesis too.
And even the horror stories you heard in school about before the US "government was protecting us" are mostly urban legend, or highly exasurated at best.
*sigh* This is why I don't bother debating Libertarians. They're just batshit fucking loco. Best to just leave them to their insane ramblings.
It is therefore not surprising that they cannot understand nor fathom the motivations of normal people who are sick and tired of advertising being plastered all over the available meatspace.
The cleverer ones do understand this, which is why they're trying to poison word-of-mouth recommendations as well (see: astroturfing).
I believe SACD and DVD-Audio have yet to be cracked like CSS was. Probably because they're still not very popular. Certainly isn't of any interest to the warez scene that distributes music in MP3 format. Give me 24-bit FLACs or give me death!
Its very simple. IMAP is for folders. Gmail doesn't have folders. End of story:)
Meh. You have to do some server-side trickery and make sure the client isn't caching too aggressively, but GMail should be able to treat tags like folders.
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I just knew someone would reply like this. Look at what website this is posted on. Look at the name of the column. Now, actually read the article.
It's not a list of demands to game companies. It's some tips for game designers, like pretty much everything on GamaSutra.
You're lucky. People in the US still haven't gotten over it.
You can do WiFi in a peer-to-peer manner, you know. If a device can speak 802.11b, it can act as an access point.
You'd still be completely vulnerable to worms that exploit buffer overflows and the like. The only difference is that a reset will cure you.
But I suppose this is what is meant by 'dumb terminals'.
No. Dumb terminals, such as Sun Rays, don't have their own processors and memory.
I've played with an iPod mini, and I absolutely hated the interface. Even after using it for an hour or so, I would still describe the wheel as "clumsy". I realize I'm in a minority here, but do keep in mind that the iPod UI is not universally appealing.
You sir, have not had good sex.
Evidence?
That's exactly what MS marketing wants you to think. It's a great way of convincing people to spend $100 more than they wanted to.
Look, if you want decent films, don't bash the likes of American Beauty. It may not be a stunning masterpiece, but it tried, and it was good. There's plenty of mindless crap you can tear apart.
Interesting. I find Indian accents much easier to understand than Chinese. Not sure if that's due to differences in native language, British colonization, or what. I've only known one Nigerian, and she spoke good English, but she also came from a rather wealthy family. *shrug*
It's even more fun when you remember that LASER is an acronym.
Hogwash. There's plenty to do in computer science, much of it with practical applications.
DVD-Rs were pretty damn expensive when they first came out. Now they're almost as cheap as CD-Rs; you can get a pack of 100 4.7GB DVD-Rs for $25. You can get a do-everything burner (CD-R/RW, DVD+-R/RW) for $50. The new high-capacity media will probably follow a similar path.
AMD already does good business in the server/workstation market, thanks to Sun and others. The truth is that AMD can't handle a huge amount of demand. They're expanding gradually, building fabs with new and better tech to crank out more processors, but they have nowhere near the production capacity of Intel.
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Good CS programs don't crank out good little code monkeys, just like good undergrad chem programs don't produce lab techs.
In universities, you learn the concepts in class, and you learn how to apply it out of class, through internships, working with professors, tinkering with open-source projects on your own, etc. If you don't want to bother with the concepts, you can go to a trade school and learn all the trendy languages and "technologies", I'm sure.
What problem? If you want to learn "computer programming", you're free to go to a trade school.
Er, computer SCIENCE should not deal with hardware beyond a couple digital logic courses. It sounds like you were looking for an MIS degree, not CS.
University science courses are not meant to "prepare someone for the real world". Do I know how to do real chemistry research after taking sophomore organic chemistry? Not really. But I understand the concepts, which is far more important. Likewise, a computer science curriculum should deal with computer science, not too much software engineering and certainly not IT grunt work.
I hate replying twice, but I forgot to point out that there are already plenty of businesses that are based solely on making generic drugs. They do very well, even though they have to develop or reverse-engineer the filler. Without patents they'd be able to compete with the original developer almost immediately.
A little IR, NMR, GC/MS, and some experiments to verify the stereochemistry, and you've reverse-engineered the drug for far less than what it cost to originally research. A little extra investment and they can probably develop a better synthesis too.
*sigh* This is why I don't bother debating Libertarians. They're just batshit fucking loco. Best to just leave them to their insane ramblings.
That's nice. How do you expect drug companies to survive when it costs about $1 billion to develop a new drug?
Maybe the current patents last too long. But no patents at all will destroy private research. That's a bad thing.
The cleverer ones do understand this, which is why they're trying to poison word-of-mouth recommendations as well (see: astroturfing).
I believe SACD and DVD-Audio have yet to be cracked like CSS was. Probably because they're still not very popular. Certainly isn't of any interest to the warez scene that distributes music in MP3 format. Give me 24-bit FLACs or give me death!
Meh. You have to do some server-side trickery and make sure the client isn't caching too aggressively, but GMail should be able to treat tags like folders.