Just use whatever colour of pink you find looks good. 99% of people have improperly calibrated monitors and won't see the correct color anyway, so it's not like it matters.
Just ask my boss. He always refers to JavaScript as Java, and often talks like they are the same thing, although I'm pretty sure he's aware they aren't the same thing. I hate it when people call JavaScript Java, because it gives people the wrong impression of what Java really is, and just how powerful It can bit. It's like comparing VBScript to VB.Net.
You don't have to include the cost of the HD TV set if you are comparing to PC gaming, where you typically have a 17 or 19 inch monitor. You can get a "High Def" 17 in TV screen for not too much money. I'd rather game on a 30 in SD tv than a And don't count a receiver/amp for the audio, unless you are going to have something similar for the PC games.
Having said that, if you want a good gamepad for you PC, go to your local electronics store. They have USB to GC/PS2/XBox adapters so you can use your favourite controller on your computer. Much better than anything offered for PC. I find that with PC gamepads, you have to spend twice as much, to get something even close to what you get with consoles.
Which is why OnDemand Cable is such a good thing. Sure it's not DVD quality (Ok you can argue that it is, but it's more compressed than most DVDs i'v seen), but you can watch it instantly, rewind, fastforward and pause just like a DVD. And you can start watching the movie in Under a minute. Also, the prices that I see are the same as renting at BlockBuster. I know you can get movies cheaper at the corner store or indy video store, but On Demand cable is where it's at. I think that this distribution model is much better than iTunes, because you can easily watch it on your home theatre, without having to worry about hooking it up to your PC, and without having to wait.
I think that high profit margins are what they are looking for, but I can't see a real gamer wanting to buy a computer from HP. The gamer crowd would either build their own, or buy from a small company, so that they don't have the same computer as everyone else. A Ferrari isn't "that" much better than a Corvette, but you know that you will get a lot more stares, and be part of an elite group when you buy your Ferrari. People buy these gaming PCs as status symbols. Once it's just another computer from a giant manufacturer, will they still have the same appeal?
Do you have to buy someone in order to make a good product? I mean, it's not really that hard to make a gaming PC. I guess by buying someone out, they get to use the name, with brings in customers, but I really don't see the big draw. HP is a big enough company that if they put out a real gaming machine, with really good specs for a good price, I'm sure it wouldn't go unnoticed.
Having said that, what's with all the big companies wanting to get into gaming PCs? That's a very small market, and with all the consoles coming out with HD, I don't see PC gaming getting a larger market (although I don't know if it will shrink). I just checked Voodoo PC, and their cheapest rig starts at $2800. For that price you could buy a PS3, XBox360, and a Wii, oh, and a ton of games, and still come out on top. I realize that there's a few games that are just better on PC (RTS and FPS), but seriously, I don' see a lot of people wanting to spend that much money on a computer.
The wii also has holes (ports?) for the original GC controllers. So you can still make games that use that controller, and plug in your GC controllers and play your GC games. I'm sure that there will be a few developers who will just tell you to use a GC controller. Which wouldn't be a big expense. Those things are only $30 CDN ($20 US, I Think). I know most people would pick up 1 or 2 if it made playing certain games a lot more comfortable, or if certain games supported only that.
I realize you said "typically" but you don't have to be in shape to be a golfer. Just look at John Daly for an example. I realize that most of the time thin guys like Tiger Woods end up winning, but there's still some pro golfers who are really out of shape. I also know tons of leisure golfers who couldn't even walk the course if they tried. They use a cart, and never have to walk far, or lift their own clubs.
Which means they can charge more for it. You can get dial up for $10 a month. But then they came up with DSL/Cable, which is really fast, so they charge you $30+ per month. Oh Now they have Fibre Optic, which is even faster, so they can start charging people $70 per month for internet access. It's the same with Cable TV. You can get free over the air, or you can get analog cable for $25 a month. But now they come out with digital cable, which will cost you $50 a month. Oh wait, now we have HD Cable, which costs $70 a month. I realize that you don't have to upgrade to the services you don't need, and you can still use dial up and over the air TV if you want, but the truth is that the service providers love this stuff, because they stand to make tons of money off stuff that people don't really need, but that they can be convinced they need. I know people who complian they don't have enough money for groceries, yet their spending $200 on Cable+Internet+CellPhone every month.
It depends on what you mean by meeting? If they mean every time you get together with two or more other developers for more than 15 minutes to discuss something, then I could see 3 meetings being not enough. If a meeting is when you get together with 15 other people and discuss things for an entire afternoon, then 3 is probably too many.
I don't think China has any problem with the physical presence of the Satellites. It's the pictures that they are taking that they have the problem with. I think china has every right to do what is necessary to prevent outside nations from taking pictures of secret things that china doesn't want them taking pictures of. I think the US would probably be smart doing the same thing. Nations should be able to protect their own secrets.
Exactly. There's a reason why J.K. Rowling (Author of Harry Potter Series) is a billionaire. She's only released 6 books, and yet managed to get extremely rich.
You can get lots of cheap books from project gutenburg. Sure they don't have new titles, but there's enough old titles to last you until you are dead. Most of these out of copyright books cost around $10 in paperback, but the are free to download. If enough people start reading free books and stop reading the new stuff, then the publishers will have to come up with a better way to reach the readers. Here's the problem though. Most publishers make money by selling the hard cover edition for $30 (which is only marginally more expensive to make than the paperback) for the first year, and then a year later releasing the paper back. They won't be able to do stuff like this with ebooks. Since there's no such thing as a hardcover book.
I know a guy at futureshop, and he said they stopped accepting government issue credit cards during march, because they'd end up getting too many returns on stuff that was just used for these guys to blow their budget. Mind you, not everything gets returned, but enough of it that it created too much of a problem for them to deal with.
It's kind of messed up. When talking about provincial organizations (at least in ontario) they are usually called ministries. When it's federal organizations, they are usually referred to as departments. It's just a stupid name, and doesn't really mean anything. For instance, there's the Department of Defence, which is headed by the Minister of Defence.
I would love to have something like this in Canada. It's well known by anybody who has ever worked in government that most departments spend their remaining budget on plasma TVs, new computers, agendas (the paper kind), and other expensive or unneeded things right near the end of the fiscal year. The rational is that if you don't use up your budget, you'll get less next year, because you obviously don't need the money you aren't spending. Something like this could help cut down on this type of activity.
The problem is, is that the game was so hard that it was unbeatable. I hate when they make games like this. They make it so hard, that unless you read a walkthrough, spend 300 hours playing the game, or enable cheat codes, then there is no way to get good enough or figure out how to beat it. Games aren't my life. I don't want to spend my life beating it. If it takes three times the amount of time that was listed to beat the game, then the game should have been labelled differently.
However, If they don't make an effort to protect their trademark then they may lose it. I don't think that Apple would want to lose their iPod trademark.
Why would anybody want to spend money on a feature for their car so that they could listen to music from a single brand of MP3 player? Wouldn't it make more sense to get a stereo with an audio input jack that could attach to any audio player? I mean, sure the controls aren't integrated, but you have controls on you MP3 player. Use those if you want to switch songs. Besides, you should be focused on driving, not trying to find the next song you want to listen to.
I'll agree that the people setting up the ATMs are extremely stupid. However, shouldn't the maker of the ATM have anticipated the stupidity of the users and either A) Not allow the machine to function until the default password was changed, or B) Don't have default password, but instead have a physical lock with a physical key (hopefully one that can't be opened by a vending machine key) that must be used in order to reprogram the machine. We all called MS Stupid for not requiring SQL Server to have a password, and having a blank default password, why not blame the people who make these ATMs.
You've said it. I've found that school teaches very little about programming in the real world. Sure you get some security courses, adn they are great, but I think there should be a class on the common problems that show up in programming. Things that should really be taugh are:
Always use parameterized queries and never construct your own queries by concatenating strings. This will not only speed up the application, it will make sql injection attacks a non-issue
Always verity the users input. You never know what the user is going to try to do with bad input.
When programming in languages like C, always check to ensure that the user can't perform a buffer overflow attack.
I'm sure there's a lot of other things that people could add to this list. There's a lot of mistakes that happen over and over again. And I don't think that it's because people don't care, or aren't smart enough, but simply because they don't know the problem exists.
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Just use whatever colour of pink you find looks good. 99% of people have improperly calibrated monitors and won't see the correct color anyway, so it's not like it matters.
Just ask my boss. He always refers to JavaScript as Java, and often talks like they are the same thing, although I'm pretty sure he's aware they aren't the same thing. I hate it when people call JavaScript Java, because it gives people the wrong impression of what Java really is, and just how powerful It can bit. It's like comparing VBScript to VB.Net.
You don't have to include the cost of the HD TV set if you are comparing to PC gaming, where you typically have a 17 or 19 inch monitor. You can get a "High Def" 17 in TV screen for not too much money. I'd rather game on a 30 in SD tv than a And don't count a receiver/amp for the audio, unless you are going to have something similar for the PC games.
Having said that, if you want a good gamepad for you PC, go to your local electronics store. They have USB to GC/PS2/XBox adapters so you can use your favourite controller on your computer. Much better than anything offered for PC. I find that with PC gamepads, you have to spend twice as much, to get something even close to what you get with consoles.
Which is why OnDemand Cable is such a good thing. Sure it's not DVD quality (Ok you can argue that it is, but it's more compressed than most DVDs i'v seen), but you can watch it instantly, rewind, fastforward and pause just like a DVD. And you can start watching the movie in Under a minute. Also, the prices that I see are the same as renting at BlockBuster. I know you can get movies cheaper at the corner store or indy video store, but On Demand cable is where it's at. I think that this distribution model is much better than iTunes, because you can easily watch it on your home theatre, without having to worry about hooking it up to your PC, and without having to wait.
I think that high profit margins are what they are looking for, but I can't see a real gamer wanting to buy a computer from HP. The gamer crowd would either build their own, or buy from a small company, so that they don't have the same computer as everyone else. A Ferrari isn't "that" much better than a Corvette, but you know that you will get a lot more stares, and be part of an elite group when you buy your Ferrari. People buy these gaming PCs as status symbols. Once it's just another computer from a giant manufacturer, will they still have the same appeal?
Do you have to buy someone in order to make a good product? I mean, it's not really that hard to make a gaming PC. I guess by buying someone out, they get to use the name, with brings in customers, but I really don't see the big draw. HP is a big enough company that if they put out a real gaming machine, with really good specs for a good price, I'm sure it wouldn't go unnoticed.
Having said that, what's with all the big companies wanting to get into gaming PCs? That's a very small market, and with all the consoles coming out with HD, I don't see PC gaming getting a larger market (although I don't know if it will shrink). I just checked Voodoo PC, and their cheapest rig starts at $2800. For that price you could buy a PS3, XBox360, and a Wii, oh, and a ton of games, and still come out on top. I realize that there's a few games that are just better on PC (RTS and FPS), but seriously, I don' see a lot of people wanting to spend that much money on a computer.
The wii also has holes (ports?) for the original GC controllers. So you can still make games that use that controller, and plug in your GC controllers and play your GC games. I'm sure that there will be a few developers who will just tell you to use a GC controller. Which wouldn't be a big expense. Those things are only $30 CDN ($20 US, I Think). I know most people would pick up 1 or 2 if it made playing certain games a lot more comfortable, or if certain games supported only that.
I realize you said "typically" but you don't have to be in shape to be a golfer. Just look at John Daly for an example. I realize that most of the time thin guys like Tiger Woods end up winning, but there's still some pro golfers who are really out of shape. I also know tons of leisure golfers who couldn't even walk the course if they tried. They use a cart, and never have to walk far, or lift their own clubs.
Do we really need another X-Men ripoff? Wasn't Mutant X already enough?
Which means they can charge more for it. You can get dial up for $10 a month. But then they came up with DSL/Cable, which is really fast, so they charge you $30+ per month. Oh Now they have Fibre Optic, which is even faster, so they can start charging people $70 per month for internet access. It's the same with Cable TV. You can get free over the air, or you can get analog cable for $25 a month. But now they come out with digital cable, which will cost you $50 a month. Oh wait, now we have HD Cable, which costs $70 a month. I realize that you don't have to upgrade to the services you don't need, and you can still use dial up and over the air TV if you want, but the truth is that the service providers love this stuff, because they stand to make tons of money off stuff that people don't really need, but that they can be convinced they need. I know people who complian they don't have enough money for groceries, yet their spending $200 on Cable+Internet+CellPhone every month.
It depends on what you mean by meeting? If they mean every time you get together with two or more other developers for more than 15 minutes to discuss something, then I could see 3 meetings being not enough. If a meeting is when you get together with 15 other people and discuss things for an entire afternoon, then 3 is probably too many.
I don't think China has any problem with the physical presence of the Satellites. It's the pictures that they are taking that they have the problem with. I think china has every right to do what is necessary to prevent outside nations from taking pictures of secret things that china doesn't want them taking pictures of. I think the US would probably be smart doing the same thing. Nations should be able to protect their own secrets.
Exactly. There's a reason why J.K. Rowling (Author of Harry Potter Series) is a billionaire. She's only released 6 books, and yet managed to get extremely rich.
You can get lots of cheap books from project gutenburg. Sure they don't have new titles, but there's enough old titles to last you until you are dead. Most of these out of copyright books cost around $10 in paperback, but the are free to download. If enough people start reading free books and stop reading the new stuff, then the publishers will have to come up with a better way to reach the readers. Here's the problem though. Most publishers make money by selling the hard cover edition for $30 (which is only marginally more expensive to make than the paperback) for the first year, and then a year later releasing the paper back. They won't be able to do stuff like this with ebooks. Since there's no such thing as a hardcover book.
Well, i'm sure if they released some sort of SDK to open source developers they could get the community to do it for free.
I know a guy at futureshop, and he said they stopped accepting government issue credit cards during march, because they'd end up getting too many returns on stuff that was just used for these guys to blow their budget. Mind you, not everything gets returned, but enough of it that it created too much of a problem for them to deal with.
I have to wonder why they didn't just port Firefox themselves. It would be much easier, and firefox is much more popular than Opera anyway.
It's kind of messed up. When talking about provincial organizations (at least in ontario) they are usually called ministries. When it's federal organizations, they are usually referred to as departments. It's just a stupid name, and doesn't really mean anything. For instance, there's the Department of Defence, which is headed by the Minister of Defence.
I would love to have something like this in Canada. It's well known by anybody who has ever worked in government that most departments spend their remaining budget on plasma TVs, new computers, agendas (the paper kind), and other expensive or unneeded things right near the end of the fiscal year. The rational is that if you don't use up your budget, you'll get less next year, because you obviously don't need the money you aren't spending. Something like this could help cut down on this type of activity.
The problem is, is that the game was so hard that it was unbeatable. I hate when they make games like this. They make it so hard, that unless you read a walkthrough, spend 300 hours playing the game, or enable cheat codes, then there is no way to get good enough or figure out how to beat it. Games aren't my life. I don't want to spend my life beating it. If it takes three times the amount of time that was listed to beat the game, then the game should have been labelled differently.
However, If they don't make an effort to protect their trademark then they may lose it. I don't think that Apple would want to lose their iPod trademark.
I know that Ontario has at least 1 supplier of Green Power
Why would anybody want to spend money on a feature for their car so that they could listen to music from a single brand of MP3 player? Wouldn't it make more sense to get a stereo with an audio input jack that could attach to any audio player? I mean, sure the controls aren't integrated, but you have controls on you MP3 player. Use those if you want to switch songs. Besides, you should be focused on driving, not trying to find the next song you want to listen to.
I'll agree that the people setting up the ATMs are extremely stupid. However, shouldn't the maker of the ATM have anticipated the stupidity of the users and either A) Not allow the machine to function until the default password was changed, or B) Don't have default password, but instead have a physical lock with a physical key (hopefully one that can't be opened by a vending machine key) that must be used in order to reprogram the machine. We all called MS Stupid for not requiring SQL Server to have a password, and having a blank default password, why not blame the people who make these ATMs.
- Always use parameterized queries and never construct your own queries by concatenating strings. This will not only speed up the application, it will make sql injection attacks a non-issue
- Always verity the users input. You never know what the user is going to try to do with bad input.
- When programming in languages like C, always check to ensure that the user can't perform a buffer overflow attack.
I'm sure there's a lot of other things that people could add to this list. There's a lot of mistakes that happen over and over again. And I don't think that it's because people don't care, or aren't smart enough, but simply because they don't know the problem exists.