I've really wanted to get a modular power supply so you don't have to worry about all those extra wires. Pair that up with SATA CDROM and hard drives, and you'd elimiate all the big wires from your case.
I'm pretty sure I measured it out once, and figured you could fit a GameCube inside a PC Case. Although possibly not in the drive basy. Probably somewhere underneath the drive bays where there is a lot of empty space. I think this is a great idea. Have a computer in your computer, So you can flip a switch, access your read only internet browsing computer, and do your banking, without having to worry about whether keyloggers and other MalWare are recording your every move.
Also, they all assume we need more space. Most of us don't. Especially not consumers. Maybe in industry they need more space, but there's a solution for that. More drives. There hasn't been anything that's come around in the last 15 years that has required more storage than video. So, the most space hungry thing we have is video. Everything else on my personal computer pales in comparison. So, Most of the Hi Def Rips I see are around 5GB. Now, if you had a 3TB drive, that gives you 600 Movies. You really don't need to store 600 movies all at once. And with the way internet is going, you really shouldn't need to store any of it, because you can just download it as you watch it. If we all had 50 MBit internet connections (there will be one day), there will be no need to store anything this large on your own personal computer. NetFlix already offers a huge part of their library online for $10 a month. No reason to buy a movie. Just "rent" it again if you want to watch it. I already don't keep most of the stuff I download. I have the space to keep it, but I say, why bother. I'll just delete it, and if I really want to watch the same movie again in 3 months, I'll download it again. Apple and others could probably do the same with music. Charge you $5 a month to manage all your song purchases. You never have to worry about backing it up. You never have to worry about losing music. They really only have to keep 1 copy of each song, and then a list of the songs you have access to. It might take another 10 years for things to really get going, but it's getting to the point where having a lot of content stored on your own computer just doesn't need to be done.
It depends on who you are asking. If you ask the programmer if the site works on IE6, he will say it does. If you ask the designer, or CEO if it works on IE6, he will say no, because some element on the page is off by 1 pixel.
At this point I really wouldn't say you were a programming, any more than someone using functions in Excel is a programmer. Learning just enough HTML to get by and modify someone else's template is surely a deathtrap. Soon you will change something, and it will completely mess up everything, and you'll have no idea how to fix it. Or you'll do something the "wrong way" and it will screw you over in 3 weeks.
My opinion is that you should learn programming first, basic command line stuff. Then move on to the GUI. After that you can learn how to manipulate databases. After that, you should move to the web.
No, they get comparable, although for much lower prices. Out of country students pay a lot of money. I remember some friends of mine (I'm from Canada) who went to US schools that were mediocre, and they paid $10,000 a year. Whereas they could have went to school in Canada, at even the best school, in the most expensive programs, and paid less than half that. I imagine it's the same with the Europeans. They could pay big bucks and go to Harvard, or they could pay very little (some countries have free university), and get pretty good education.
I really can't see much of a use for something like Oracle. Either you are writing a small/medium sized application where something like MySQL/PostGres would do just fine out of the box, without any modifications, or you are doing something really large, which you end up writing your own custom storage solution for, which does exactly only what you need it to do, and is very finely tuned. Even large and busy sites like CraigsList use MySQL and other free products to handle their data.
The problem, is that HDMI requires 10 Gb/s, which is only barely do-able on Cat6. But I like where this is going. Basically, all we should really need is a network cable with extra shielding, so that we can have the high transfer rates. That way, we can make our own cables, and we can also use a standard connector that in the future can accommodate even higher transfer rates.
When I read, I constantly highlight and unhighlight the text I'm reading. Out of habit, I'm not even thinking about it most of the time. I've noticed a lot of other techies who do exactly the same think. I'm sure I would rack up quite a bit noise data into their system.
How long until we move to using dedicated terminals to access our online banking. A device that only did banking could be really cheap. Load a custom, hardened version of Linux on there, that only displayed a web browser, and only went to the bank's website, and you'd probably go a long way to stopping this, and many other kinds of fraud.
When I was in university, it seemed the top 2 reason for choosing a course of study were:
1) High paying job upon graduation.
2) Parents pushed me into it.
Now, often reason 2 is because of reason 1, but at the end of the day, many people choose paths in school/life that will end up with a high paying job, rather than choose something they love. My roommate actually specifically stated that he went into mechanical engineering, specifically because he didn't want what he really liked (computers) to turn into a job. So he ended up doing something he didn't like at all (didn't graduate, because he hated the work), over something he liked, even though both courses of study would have resulted in the same amount of pay. I choose my course based on what I like to do (software engineering), and it paid off pretty well, especially when I compare myself to all the other people I know who choose their future based on money, or what their parents told them to do.
It really depends on the price. People don't grow gardens of carrots and lettuce in their back yard, because they are relatively cheap, and because you need a lot, and most people don't have enough land. Contrast that with say, herbs (like oregano, thyme, and rosemary) which many people do grow, because fresh herbs are expensive, and it takes very little land to grow all the herbs you need. They could probably sell marijuana, as long as the price was cheap, but if they start taxing it heavily like alcohol, you can bet that a lot of people are going to be growing their own. Unlike making your own alcohol, growing marijuana is actually pretty simple, and doesn't require that much effort or space. Your comments are more like, "how do grocery stores stay alive when you can just get food pre-made at McDonald's, or have pizza delivered to your door?" Sure some people will pay the premium to have everything done for them, but a lot of people are willing to make their own meals, because it saves a lot of money, or for the same price, you get a much better product.
The difference is that you can have it for whatever reason you want. In the US, as an individual, you have to get a prescription for it from your doctor.
Coming from a place with so much forest, I sometimes forget how little of the world is covered in forest. I love the forest, and could not imagine living in a place with no forest. Although it seems that's how most of the world is.
For most of my math classes, they either did exams where the math was simple enough that you didn't need a calculator, or the only calculator that you needed was at TI-30 series, which was a basic scientific calculator with no ability to store data, nor could programs be written for it. The most advanced version had a 2-line display, and allowed you to type in entire formulas, and compute them once everything was typed in, but that's about it. The only reason I had my TI-86 was because it was required for Caculus 1. However, this was completely stupid, because, from what I remember, the only thing we used it for was for calculating Riemann sums, which was done via a program, which was given to us by the professor, and required no skill to use. However, I was happy that I did have the calculator for many other classes, one of which was robotics. The calculator was quite useful, and I still have it to this day, 10 years later. Has to be one of the best calculators I have ever used. Personally, I find it much better than those HP calculators with RPN, because you don't have to learn anything. You can simply type equations into it the way you see them, and the way you would normally write them, and it works it out.
Get a better programming environment. In VS.Net, you can right click, "Find all References". Which will give you a nice list of every use of a specific variable, or function. There should be not need to do a search for variable names, especially ones with such a small scope such as loop counters.
Depending on when/where you are travelling, biking can also make sense for longer trips. Last year (before my office moved) my bike ride was 25 KM. The ride took about 1 hour 10 minutes, every time. There was a few times when I got a ride from a co-worker. The car would usually take 50 minutes, but sometimes it would take 1 hour 20, depending on traffic. So, yes the car was sometimes faster, but traffic on some days made the car even slower than a bike, even over a long distance. Right now my ride is only 7 KM, and on about 2 days out of 5 in the week, i'm whizzing past all the cars, because the traffic is at a stand still.
I have my USB stick formatted as NTFS. The reason is that it works fine in all my systems, (Linux, Windows, Wii MPlayerCE), and sometimes I need to put a DVD ISO file on the drive that is larger than 4GB.
Nice to see a fellow person from Ottawa. The blues fest does bring some really big names into town, and for a pretty decent price. Don't understand why it's called bluesfest, as most of the music isn't blues, but I digress. Another great place to see shows is at the EX. Pay for you price of admission to the park ($6.50, 6 years ago, haven't been in a while), and some shows are free. I saw a lot great bands at the EX, like the Tea Party, as well some people like Avril Lavigne. Sure her music isn't great, but at $6.50 a ticket it was worth it. I'll go see almost any concert for $6.50.
I think what really solves the problem is stopping people from acquiring large numbers of tickets. If your tickets are transferable, then you can still scalp them. If you can't get a large number of tickets in the first place, then scalping becomes much less profitable. Even if you could sell them for 10 times the original price, if you could only get 5 tickets, then the most scalpers wouldn't be able to treat it as a business.
I think that's the point. I don't think Nintendo wants to sell Dev Kits to every person that can produce the money. I'm not sure why, but they don't. However, I think that if you were serious about game development, and even if you didn't have a complete game, but could show them that you are a serious developer looking to make a final product, that you could get them to sell you a dev kit. I don't there's any specific rule around Nintendo that they won't sell you a Dev Kit unless you have a big corporate office, but really they just don't want to sell it to hobbyists, which is fine as far as I'm concerned.
I'll tell you who cares. The fans who can't get a ticket unless they pay 10 times the original price because all the tickets were bought up by scalpers 45 seconds after they went on sale. In this case, Ticketmaster is actually trying to do something that's good for the people who want to see the show, and isn't good for the people who just want to resell their tickets. Now, there are some downsides, especially for those who wanted to see the show, but something happened, and now they can't see it, and they can't resell the tickets. Which group of people do you think is larger? Maybe Ticketmaster thinks it is better to help the larger number of people who want to see the show see it for the real price, than to worry about the much smaller percentage of people who can't resell their tickets. Maybe they will get that part figured out as well, and nobody will have any reason to complain.
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I've really wanted to get a modular power supply so you don't have to worry about all those extra wires. Pair that up with SATA CDROM and hard drives, and you'd elimiate all the big wires from your case.
I'm pretty sure I measured it out once, and figured you could fit a GameCube inside a PC Case. Although possibly not in the drive basy. Probably somewhere underneath the drive bays where there is a lot of empty space. I think this is a great idea. Have a computer in your computer, So you can flip a switch, access your read only internet browsing computer, and do your banking, without having to worry about whether keyloggers and other MalWare are recording your every move.
The really funny part is that somebody programmed a bot to play the game, and it's doing better than the researcher's algorithm.
Also, they all assume we need more space. Most of us don't. Especially not consumers. Maybe in industry they need more space, but there's a solution for that. More drives. There hasn't been anything that's come around in the last 15 years that has required more storage than video. So, the most space hungry thing we have is video. Everything else on my personal computer pales in comparison. So, Most of the Hi Def Rips I see are around 5GB. Now, if you had a 3TB drive, that gives you 600 Movies. You really don't need to store 600 movies all at once. And with the way internet is going, you really shouldn't need to store any of it, because you can just download it as you watch it. If we all had 50 MBit internet connections (there will be one day), there will be no need to store anything this large on your own personal computer. NetFlix already offers a huge part of their library online for $10 a month. No reason to buy a movie. Just "rent" it again if you want to watch it. I already don't keep most of the stuff I download. I have the space to keep it, but I say, why bother. I'll just delete it, and if I really want to watch the same movie again in 3 months, I'll download it again. Apple and others could probably do the same with music. Charge you $5 a month to manage all your song purchases. You never have to worry about backing it up. You never have to worry about losing music. They really only have to keep 1 copy of each song, and then a list of the songs you have access to. It might take another 10 years for things to really get going, but it's getting to the point where having a lot of content stored on your own computer just doesn't need to be done.
It depends on who you are asking. If you ask the programmer if the site works on IE6, he will say it does. If you ask the designer, or CEO if it works on IE6, he will say no, because some element on the page is off by 1 pixel.
At this point I really wouldn't say you were a programming, any more than someone using functions in Excel is a programmer. Learning just enough HTML to get by and modify someone else's template is surely a deathtrap. Soon you will change something, and it will completely mess up everything, and you'll have no idea how to fix it. Or you'll do something the "wrong way" and it will screw you over in 3 weeks.
My opinion is that you should learn programming first, basic command line stuff. Then move on to the GUI. After that you can learn how to manipulate databases. After that, you should move to the web.
No, they get comparable, although for much lower prices. Out of country students pay a lot of money. I remember some friends of mine (I'm from Canada) who went to US schools that were mediocre, and they paid $10,000 a year. Whereas they could have went to school in Canada, at even the best school, in the most expensive programs, and paid less than half that. I imagine it's the same with the Europeans. They could pay big bucks and go to Harvard, or they could pay very little (some countries have free university), and get pretty good education.
I really can't see much of a use for something like Oracle. Either you are writing a small/medium sized application where something like MySQL/PostGres would do just fine out of the box, without any modifications, or you are doing something really large, which you end up writing your own custom storage solution for, which does exactly only what you need it to do, and is very finely tuned. Even large and busy sites like CraigsList use MySQL and other free products to handle their data.
The problem, is that HDMI requires 10 Gb/s, which is only barely do-able on Cat6. But I like where this is going. Basically, all we should really need is a network cable with extra shielding, so that we can have the high transfer rates. That way, we can make our own cables, and we can also use a standard connector that in the future can accommodate even higher transfer rates.
When I read, I constantly highlight and unhighlight the text I'm reading. Out of habit, I'm not even thinking about it most of the time. I've noticed a lot of other techies who do exactly the same think. I'm sure I would rack up quite a bit noise data into their system.
How long until we move to using dedicated terminals to access our online banking. A device that only did banking could be really cheap. Load a custom, hardened version of Linux on there, that only displayed a web browser, and only went to the bank's website, and you'd probably go a long way to stopping this, and many other kinds of fraud.
When I was in university, it seemed the top 2 reason for choosing a course of study were:
1) High paying job upon graduation.
2) Parents pushed me into it.
Now, often reason 2 is because of reason 1, but at the end of the day, many people choose paths in school/life that will end up with a high paying job, rather than choose something they love. My roommate actually specifically stated that he went into mechanical engineering, specifically because he didn't want what he really liked (computers) to turn into a job. So he ended up doing something he didn't like at all (didn't graduate, because he hated the work), over something he liked, even though both courses of study would have resulted in the same amount of pay. I choose my course based on what I like to do (software engineering), and it paid off pretty well, especially when I compare myself to all the other people I know who choose their future based on money, or what their parents told them to do.
It really depends on the price. People don't grow gardens of carrots and lettuce in their back yard, because they are relatively cheap, and because you need a lot, and most people don't have enough land. Contrast that with say, herbs (like oregano, thyme, and rosemary) which many people do grow, because fresh herbs are expensive, and it takes very little land to grow all the herbs you need. They could probably sell marijuana, as long as the price was cheap, but if they start taxing it heavily like alcohol, you can bet that a lot of people are going to be growing their own. Unlike making your own alcohol, growing marijuana is actually pretty simple, and doesn't require that much effort or space. Your comments are more like, "how do grocery stores stay alive when you can just get food pre-made at McDonald's, or have pizza delivered to your door?" Sure some people will pay the premium to have everything done for them, but a lot of people are willing to make their own meals, because it saves a lot of money, or for the same price, you get a much better product.
The difference is that you can have it for whatever reason you want. In the US, as an individual, you have to get a prescription for it from your doctor.
Coming from a place with so much forest, I sometimes forget how little of the world is covered in forest. I love the forest, and could not imagine living in a place with no forest. Although it seems that's how most of the world is.
The question is, if you have no idea what Ubuntu is, then why did you choose it?
For most of my math classes, they either did exams where the math was simple enough that you didn't need a calculator, or the only calculator that you needed was at TI-30 series, which was a basic scientific calculator with no ability to store data, nor could programs be written for it. The most advanced version had a 2-line display, and allowed you to type in entire formulas, and compute them once everything was typed in, but that's about it. The only reason I had my TI-86 was because it was required for Caculus 1. However, this was completely stupid, because, from what I remember, the only thing we used it for was for calculating Riemann sums, which was done via a program, which was given to us by the professor, and required no skill to use. However, I was happy that I did have the calculator for many other classes, one of which was robotics. The calculator was quite useful, and I still have it to this day, 10 years later. Has to be one of the best calculators I have ever used. Personally, I find it much better than those HP calculators with RPN, because you don't have to learn anything. You can simply type equations into it the way you see them, and the way you would normally write them, and it works it out.
Get a better programming environment. In VS.Net, you can right click, "Find all References". Which will give you a nice list of every use of a specific variable, or function. There should be not need to do a search for variable names, especially ones with such a small scope such as loop counters.
Depending on when/where you are travelling, biking can also make sense for longer trips. Last year (before my office moved) my bike ride was 25 KM. The ride took about 1 hour 10 minutes, every time. There was a few times when I got a ride from a co-worker. The car would usually take 50 minutes, but sometimes it would take 1 hour 20, depending on traffic. So, yes the car was sometimes faster, but traffic on some days made the car even slower than a bike, even over a long distance. Right now my ride is only 7 KM, and on about 2 days out of 5 in the week, i'm whizzing past all the cars, because the traffic is at a stand still.
Is Lucas working for Disney now?
I have my USB stick formatted as NTFS. The reason is that it works fine in all my systems, (Linux, Windows, Wii MPlayerCE), and sometimes I need to put a DVD ISO file on the drive that is larger than 4GB.
Nice to see a fellow person from Ottawa. The blues fest does bring some really big names into town, and for a pretty decent price. Don't understand why it's called bluesfest, as most of the music isn't blues, but I digress. Another great place to see shows is at the EX. Pay for you price of admission to the park ($6.50, 6 years ago, haven't been in a while), and some shows are free. I saw a lot great bands at the EX, like the Tea Party, as well some people like Avril Lavigne. Sure her music isn't great, but at $6.50 a ticket it was worth it. I'll go see almost any concert for $6.50.
I think what really solves the problem is stopping people from acquiring large numbers of tickets. If your tickets are transferable, then you can still scalp them. If you can't get a large number of tickets in the first place, then scalping becomes much less profitable. Even if you could sell them for 10 times the original price, if you could only get 5 tickets, then the most scalpers wouldn't be able to treat it as a business.
I think that's the point. I don't think Nintendo wants to sell Dev Kits to every person that can produce the money. I'm not sure why, but they don't. However, I think that if you were serious about game development, and even if you didn't have a complete game, but could show them that you are a serious developer looking to make a final product, that you could get them to sell you a dev kit. I don't there's any specific rule around Nintendo that they won't sell you a Dev Kit unless you have a big corporate office, but really they just don't want to sell it to hobbyists, which is fine as far as I'm concerned.
I'll tell you who cares. The fans who can't get a ticket unless they pay 10 times the original price because all the tickets were bought up by scalpers 45 seconds after they went on sale. In this case, Ticketmaster is actually trying to do something that's good for the people who want to see the show, and isn't good for the people who just want to resell their tickets. Now, there are some downsides, especially for those who wanted to see the show, but something happened, and now they can't see it, and they can't resell the tickets. Which group of people do you think is larger? Maybe Ticketmaster thinks it is better to help the larger number of people who want to see the show see it for the real price, than to worry about the much smaller percentage of people who can't resell their tickets. Maybe they will get that part figured out as well, and nobody will have any reason to complain.