I think the problem is that some of the better players I've played against in my day play quite a lot like robots. They know the map very well, they follow a defined path making sure to hit every power-up. They know the hiding spots and always check them. They make seemingly impossible impossibly jumps and never miss a step. They aren't really fun to play against either.
As long as you play within you limits, the lottery is fine. Find any other thing where you invest $5 a week and have a non-zero chance of getting a $50 million return. Sure the chance with the lottery is very close to zero, but it's not zero there's way worse things you could spend that $5 on. Starbucks, cigarettes, gas to drive 300 feet to the store, TV dinners, plus about a million other things people do to waste vast amounts of money.
Actually, Just ran a test, because I was a little amazed that the ARM 6 was so much slower than the A9. Here are my numbers.
Parse Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 14 seconds (14 seconds)
Photon Time: 0 hours 5 minutes 43 seconds (343 seconds)
Render Time: 5 hours 58 minutes 53 seconds (21533 seconds)
Total Time: 6 hours 4 minutes 50 seconds (21890 seconds)
While the Raspberry Pi wasn't faster than the A9 (didn't expect it to be) it was way faster then ARM6 you tested on. Most likely due to the fact that it uses hard float.
Actually, This is how I use Facebook on my (Android) phone. The app is seriously terrible. Always running in the background. Back when I was running it I would basically have to restart my phone once a day. Now that I've completely removed the app, I almost never reboot my phone. Now if I want to check facebook, I'll open their mobile site in my browser. The user experience is pretty much the same, and I don't have to worry about the app bogging down my phone.
When I was in university, I took a parallel computing course and we used MPI, same as these guys. Back then, all the personal machines were single core. If we were lucky we could test the program out by remote logging into the quad processor SUN machine. Guess what? We were able to learn quite a bit just running 64 different processes on the same box, even with just a single processor core. It would have been nice to have a machine around with 64 actual cores on it to see how things worked one everything was truly running in parallel, but we were able to do quite a bit with just a single machine.
The problem is that this policy doesn't account for specific situations for extenuating circumstances where a student couldn't finish an assignment. It's a blanket statement that applies to all assignments for all students. So any student can not hand in any assignment for whatever reason they want and not have their grade affected in any way whatsoever. I realize that you were in a bad situation, and that you suffered for this, but that's not a reason to mess up the whole system for everyone. A better solution is to make it more clear to students that if they need an extension and have a good reason for said extension that they can get one. Happened all the time in Highschool and University for me. It wasn't uncommon for 2 (or 3) teachers to give big assignments due at the same time and then give the students extra time if they asked for it due to the increased work load. If you were ill and got a doctors note, you could have extra time. There's always room for making accommodations to help students who truly want to get a good grade, but can't for whatever reason. But there shouldn't be a way to just slack off for no reason.
I was thinking just in terms of sheer number of models. But that's a pretty interesting fact. I wasn't even aware that LG made Windows phones. Imagine going to the Honda dealership, because you drove your friend's Honda Accord and them offering you everything 50 different models from a sub compact, to a luxury sedan, to full tonne diesel pickup, as well as minivans, and even motorcycles all as the Honda Accord but with seemingly random sequences of letters and numbers tacked on the end as the only identifier..
Have you looked at the list of Samsung Galaxy phones? They are probably the worst offender of this that I know of. Also up there on the list are the LG Optimus products. And people wonder why iPhone is so popular. It's because people actually know what product they are buying. They sell exactly 1 phone at a time, with about 3 different storage space options, but that's about it. You know very easily which iPhone you are buying. If you purchase a Samsung Galaxy, You could either get a low-end touchscreen phone, a phone which resembles a blackberry with a full qwerty keyboard, a high-end iPhone equivalent, a gigantic 5.2 inch Galaxy Note, or even a 10 inch tablet.
While RPN does have it's advantages, there's something to be said about being able to type in an equation exactly as it's written down on paper. For long equations it's a lot easier to verify that you actually typed it in right. Also, it's nice to be able to go back to the previous entire equation and edit it if you happened to have a small typo.
It's worse than that. In Edmonton, a teacher was suspended for giving zeros for assignments that were never handed in. Apparently, they are only supposed to receive an "Incomplete" mark, and if they never hand it in, it just doesn't count on their average for the year. I believe eventually he lost his job, mostly because he decided to fight the school in court (good for him). It's hard to believe how bad the policies have become in schools lately.
Depends on what courses you are taking. In university we were required to have a TI-86 as part of our calculus course in first year. The only thing we "needed" it for was calculating Reimann sums on the exams using the supplied program. Other than that you could have completely gone without out. Most courses including calculus didn't allow anything more advanced because they could do symbolic calculus, which would make it pretty easy to cheat on the exams. I had many math courses in which the calculator was restricted to a TI-30, or allowed no calculator at all. The TI-86 really came in useful however for my engineering courses. For the courses that allowed it, I was able to use programs that cut out a lot of the tedious work in things like multiplying matrices.
There isn't much I'd be doing different. However, what I would want is a completely unmetered connection. I'd be fin with 5 Mbit if I had unlimited throughput. I only pay for a 18 Mbit line because that's the one that offers a high enough per month capacity. This is what I hope that fibre will bring to the table. Unlimited monthly usage at whatever speed I have signed up for.
I've already set up a greasemonkey script to replace the logo with one of my choosing. OK, I haven't really, but for anybody who really cared to do this, it would be a simple task. Why would you want to change the logo? What is the purpose of this?
Yeah, but starcraft was written ages ago. It was released in 1998. Which means they probably started coding it in 1996. Possibly earlier. It was probably based off code from Warcraft which was released in 1992. It wouldn't be a stretch to say a lot of the code is close to 20 years old. Granted, it still gives them no excluse for not writing their own library so they didn't access the data structures 100 different ways, but it's not like standard libraries were avaialble for a lot of this stuff back then.
The question is, how can we use this to our advantage to get better prices? Is it possible to create a fake profile in order to obtain a discount. They'll stop doing this stuff once they realize too many people are gaming the system. I know people who do this all the time with online deals. Netflix first month is free. Sign up every month with a different credit card. I hear that those prepaid Visa cards work great. You don't maintain a profile, so they don't recommend good movies but you can still watch whatever you want. You can use the Visa gift card to buy something else like groceries. I could easily name many other such ways to take advantage of various websites. If an online store is going to gouge you as a longtime customer just don't buy stuff without creating an account, or create a new account every couple of months so they can't build up a profile. A little harder to do with things like iTunes or Google Play store, but it could probably be done.
Very much agree. And $8 is probably about the cheapest case I have seen so far. Most of them I see out there are around $15, some as high $25. The computer only costs $35. There's no reason that a plastic case that goes around the thing should be any more than $2. I understand printing these things with 3D printers is expensive. Someone needs to come up with a better solution.
Except that the Lumia 920 has 32 GB of storage on board. The summary is very confusing. It compares it to the 820 which has an SD card slot and only has 8GB of storage, but fails to mention how much storage the Lumia 920 has. I would hope that the 810 would have room for an SD card, being that it only has 8 GB of storage. But when the 920 has 32 GB available in the phone already, there is less of a need to add more storage. Also to note is that the battery is not removable thereby eliminating the obvious place for the SD card slot which is usually underneath the battery cover.
I'm with Wind Mobile and I love it. $29 for unlimited local calling, txting, and data (5 GB before they throttle me). So what if I have to pay roaming what I'm outside the city. It's a small price to pay for getting exceptionally cheap service inside the city. For a similar package with any of the big cell phone carriers, I'd be paying at least double that.
Actually, in Canada, the paper companies don't own the forests. They are harvesting crown land. The wood and paper companies pay only and "administrative fee" to allow them to cut down the trees. They do however have to replant after they are done. The good thing is that the government stays in control of the forests and can stop logging on certain areas if they deem fit. This is the reasoning for the softwood lumber dispute. Americans claim the Canadian forestry companies are receiving a subsidy, and therefore should be subject to import duties.
I don't think that there's anything inherently expensive about carbon fibre. The raw ingredients aren't really that expensive. I'm pretty sure a lot of the price has to do with patents on various polymers that are used, as well as other aspects of carbon fibre construction. I'm waiting for the day when carbon fibre actually becomes the cheapest method of creating a bike. With the rising price of metals, and the ever lowering costs of carbon fibre, it will eventually be the case that carbon fibre (or this wood pulp material) will become cheaper than most other alternatives.
We actually has a local photocopy store that would copy out textbooks for you. I think they had some kind of deal where the price would be 30% of the cover price, or a minimum price per page. They would also keep a copy for themselves so you could often request a book and they would already have it. It was illegal even in just about every way, but somehow I don't recall them ever getting shut down.
Or consider changing the speed of light. If you live 1/2 way around the world from the server, it would take 133 ms just for a single round trip. And that's only taking into account the speed of light, and not counting real world scenarios. In the real world, you effectively have to double that, giving you about 266 ms just for a single ping. tcp handshake is a little more complex. Even New York to Los Angeles is about 4000 km, which would give a theoretical minimum ping time of 26.8 ms.
Skills do regress. You may not completely lose them but they do regress. Take your average 40 year old who hasn't ridden a bike since he was a teenager and ask him to ride a bike. I'm pretty sure that many would not be a stable as when they were teenagers. On the other hand, I don't think that summer has to be a time for kids to regress and stop learning. My kids have learned a lot this summer. Kids should at least be reading books, if not doing many other things to enforce the material they learned throughout the year. I think the main problem is parents who don't care, and don't take an interest in their children's learning and schooling.
And yet for every person like you there's 100 who only ever use a computer for Facebook and email and gave been waiting for something as simple and useful as the ipad for the past 15 years. Most people have no interest in using a computer to actually accomplish anything and are perfectly happy consuming music books and itsvideos. I probably spend half my time doing the same. And with the price of these things its getting very easy to own both a laptop and a tablet. I've already decided my next phone will be the cheapest available with tethering and opt to spend the difference on a 10 inch tablet
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I think the problem is that some of the better players I've played against in my day play quite a lot like robots. They know the map very well, they follow a defined path making sure to hit every power-up. They know the hiding spots and always check them. They make seemingly impossible impossibly jumps and never miss a step. They aren't really fun to play against either.
The hard part is getting access to corpses for practice without going to medical school.
As long as you play within you limits, the lottery is fine. Find any other thing where you invest $5 a week and have a non-zero chance of getting a $50 million return. Sure the chance with the lottery is very close to zero, but it's not zero there's way worse things you could spend that $5 on. Starbucks, cigarettes, gas to drive 300 feet to the store, TV dinners, plus about a million other things people do to waste vast amounts of money.
Actually, Just ran a test, because I was a little amazed that the ARM 6 was so much slower than the A9. Here are my numbers. Parse Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 14 seconds (14 seconds) Photon Time: 0 hours 5 minutes 43 seconds (343 seconds) Render Time: 5 hours 58 minutes 53 seconds (21533 seconds) Total Time: 6 hours 4 minutes 50 seconds (21890 seconds) While the Raspberry Pi wasn't faster than the A9 (didn't expect it to be) it was way faster then ARM6 you tested on. Most likely due to the fact that it uses hard float.
Actually, This is how I use Facebook on my (Android) phone. The app is seriously terrible. Always running in the background. Back when I was running it I would basically have to restart my phone once a day. Now that I've completely removed the app, I almost never reboot my phone. Now if I want to check facebook, I'll open their mobile site in my browser. The user experience is pretty much the same, and I don't have to worry about the app bogging down my phone.
When I was in university, I took a parallel computing course and we used MPI, same as these guys. Back then, all the personal machines were single core. If we were lucky we could test the program out by remote logging into the quad processor SUN machine. Guess what? We were able to learn quite a bit just running 64 different processes on the same box, even with just a single processor core. It would have been nice to have a machine around with 64 actual cores on it to see how things worked one everything was truly running in parallel, but we were able to do quite a bit with just a single machine.
The problem is that this policy doesn't account for specific situations for extenuating circumstances where a student couldn't finish an assignment. It's a blanket statement that applies to all assignments for all students. So any student can not hand in any assignment for whatever reason they want and not have their grade affected in any way whatsoever. I realize that you were in a bad situation, and that you suffered for this, but that's not a reason to mess up the whole system for everyone. A better solution is to make it more clear to students that if they need an extension and have a good reason for said extension that they can get one. Happened all the time in Highschool and University for me. It wasn't uncommon for 2 (or 3) teachers to give big assignments due at the same time and then give the students extra time if they asked for it due to the increased work load. If you were ill and got a doctors note, you could have extra time. There's always room for making accommodations to help students who truly want to get a good grade, but can't for whatever reason. But there shouldn't be a way to just slack off for no reason.
I was thinking just in terms of sheer number of models. But that's a pretty interesting fact. I wasn't even aware that LG made Windows phones. Imagine going to the Honda dealership, because you drove your friend's Honda Accord and them offering you everything 50 different models from a sub compact, to a luxury sedan, to full tonne diesel pickup, as well as minivans, and even motorcycles all as the Honda Accord but with seemingly random sequences of letters and numbers tacked on the end as the only identifier..
Have you looked at the list of Samsung Galaxy phones? They are probably the worst offender of this that I know of. Also up there on the list are the LG Optimus products. And people wonder why iPhone is so popular. It's because people actually know what product they are buying. They sell exactly 1 phone at a time, with about 3 different storage space options, but that's about it. You know very easily which iPhone you are buying. If you purchase a Samsung Galaxy, You could either get a low-end touchscreen phone, a phone which resembles a blackberry with a full qwerty keyboard, a high-end iPhone equivalent, a gigantic 5.2 inch Galaxy Note, or even a 10 inch tablet.
While RPN does have it's advantages, there's something to be said about being able to type in an equation exactly as it's written down on paper. For long equations it's a lot easier to verify that you actually typed it in right. Also, it's nice to be able to go back to the previous entire equation and edit it if you happened to have a small typo.
It's worse than that. In Edmonton, a teacher was suspended for giving zeros for assignments that were never handed in. Apparently, they are only supposed to receive an "Incomplete" mark, and if they never hand it in, it just doesn't count on their average for the year. I believe eventually he lost his job, mostly because he decided to fight the school in court (good for him). It's hard to believe how bad the policies have become in schools lately.
Depends on what courses you are taking. In university we were required to have a TI-86 as part of our calculus course in first year. The only thing we "needed" it for was calculating Reimann sums on the exams using the supplied program. Other than that you could have completely gone without out. Most courses including calculus didn't allow anything more advanced because they could do symbolic calculus, which would make it pretty easy to cheat on the exams. I had many math courses in which the calculator was restricted to a TI-30, or allowed no calculator at all. The TI-86 really came in useful however for my engineering courses. For the courses that allowed it, I was able to use programs that cut out a lot of the tedious work in things like multiplying matrices.
There isn't much I'd be doing different. However, what I would want is a completely unmetered connection. I'd be fin with 5 Mbit if I had unlimited throughput. I only pay for a 18 Mbit line because that's the one that offers a high enough per month capacity. This is what I hope that fibre will bring to the table. Unlimited monthly usage at whatever speed I have signed up for.
I've already set up a greasemonkey script to replace the logo with one of my choosing. OK, I haven't really, but for anybody who really cared to do this, it would be a simple task. Why would you want to change the logo? What is the purpose of this?
Yeah, but starcraft was written ages ago. It was released in 1998. Which means they probably started coding it in 1996. Possibly earlier. It was probably based off code from Warcraft which was released in 1992. It wouldn't be a stretch to say a lot of the code is close to 20 years old. Granted, it still gives them no excluse for not writing their own library so they didn't access the data structures 100 different ways, but it's not like standard libraries were avaialble for a lot of this stuff back then.
The question is, how can we use this to our advantage to get better prices? Is it possible to create a fake profile in order to obtain a discount. They'll stop doing this stuff once they realize too many people are gaming the system. I know people who do this all the time with online deals. Netflix first month is free. Sign up every month with a different credit card. I hear that those prepaid Visa cards work great. You don't maintain a profile, so they don't recommend good movies but you can still watch whatever you want. You can use the Visa gift card to buy something else like groceries. I could easily name many other such ways to take advantage of various websites. If an online store is going to gouge you as a longtime customer just don't buy stuff without creating an account, or create a new account every couple of months so they can't build up a profile. A little harder to do with things like iTunes or Google Play store, but it could probably be done.
Very much agree. And $8 is probably about the cheapest case I have seen so far. Most of them I see out there are around $15, some as high $25. The computer only costs $35. There's no reason that a plastic case that goes around the thing should be any more than $2. I understand printing these things with 3D printers is expensive. Someone needs to come up with a better solution.
Except that the Lumia 920 has 32 GB of storage on board. The summary is very confusing. It compares it to the 820 which has an SD card slot and only has 8GB of storage, but fails to mention how much storage the Lumia 920 has. I would hope that the 810 would have room for an SD card, being that it only has 8 GB of storage. But when the 920 has 32 GB available in the phone already, there is less of a need to add more storage. Also to note is that the battery is not removable thereby eliminating the obvious place for the SD card slot which is usually underneath the battery cover.
I'm with Wind Mobile and I love it. $29 for unlimited local calling, txting, and data (5 GB before they throttle me). So what if I have to pay roaming what I'm outside the city. It's a small price to pay for getting exceptionally cheap service inside the city. For a similar package with any of the big cell phone carriers, I'd be paying at least double that.
Actually, in Canada, the paper companies don't own the forests. They are harvesting crown land. The wood and paper companies pay only and "administrative fee" to allow them to cut down the trees. They do however have to replant after they are done. The good thing is that the government stays in control of the forests and can stop logging on certain areas if they deem fit. This is the reasoning for the softwood lumber dispute. Americans claim the Canadian forestry companies are receiving a subsidy, and therefore should be subject to import duties.
I don't think that there's anything inherently expensive about carbon fibre. The raw ingredients aren't really that expensive. I'm pretty sure a lot of the price has to do with patents on various polymers that are used, as well as other aspects of carbon fibre construction. I'm waiting for the day when carbon fibre actually becomes the cheapest method of creating a bike. With the rising price of metals, and the ever lowering costs of carbon fibre, it will eventually be the case that carbon fibre (or this wood pulp material) will become cheaper than most other alternatives.
We actually has a local photocopy store that would copy out textbooks for you. I think they had some kind of deal where the price would be 30% of the cover price, or a minimum price per page. They would also keep a copy for themselves so you could often request a book and they would already have it. It was illegal even in just about every way, but somehow I don't recall them ever getting shut down.
Or consider changing the speed of light. If you live 1/2 way around the world from the server, it would take 133 ms just for a single round trip. And that's only taking into account the speed of light, and not counting real world scenarios. In the real world, you effectively have to double that, giving you about 266 ms just for a single ping. tcp handshake is a little more complex. Even New York to Los Angeles is about 4000 km, which would give a theoretical minimum ping time of 26.8 ms.
Skills do regress. You may not completely lose them but they do regress. Take your average 40 year old who hasn't ridden a bike since he was a teenager and ask him to ride a bike. I'm pretty sure that many would not be a stable as when they were teenagers. On the other hand, I don't think that summer has to be a time for kids to regress and stop learning. My kids have learned a lot this summer. Kids should at least be reading books, if not doing many other things to enforce the material they learned throughout the year. I think the main problem is parents who don't care, and don't take an interest in their children's learning and schooling.
And yet for every person like you there's 100 who only ever use a computer for Facebook and email and gave been waiting for something as simple and useful as the ipad for the past 15 years. Most people have no interest in using a computer to actually accomplish anything and are perfectly happy consuming music books and itsvideos. I probably spend half my time doing the same. And with the price of these things its getting very easy to own both a laptop and a tablet. I've already decided my next phone will be the cheapest available with tethering and opt to spend the difference on a 10 inch tablet