He talks about depth perception being a problem in WoW
Does it work that way? Unless he has some fancy 3d screen (and a version of WoW that doesn't exist), everything on the screen is being portrayed on a flat plane. Sure, distance is faked using different sized objects but I don't think depth perception is actually an issue when everything is viewed at exactly the same depth.
straight line distance is under a mile and following streets is a little over. Most of the stuff in between is the university of chicago. I don't know if that helps or hurts my cause (there must be huge trunks of phone wiring running through campus but AT&T might not get to touch it if they deal with their own telecom).
The u-verse box has been there for a while so I would assume it is running but I can't then see why they wouldn't have tried to talk me into it when I helped my sorority girl room mates sign up for it (they were happy that we could get service for about $15 or something while comcast is $60 or so...I am unhappy that sometimes even a youtube video won't stream). It seems like a bad technology when you have to be within a mile of a multistory data center-type building just to get 1.5mb service. You would think they could put the DSL hardware in a box somewhere nearby in order to sell higher speeds to the TONS of college students who live here. Now all use comcast except the REALLY price sensitive people...my comcast speeds almost doubled in the 2 years I had it (we were getting above rated speed in the end) without the price changing and my pings were super low unless there was a problem on their end (single digit pings to my favorite TF2 server...now I am 50 at the lowest to anywhere).
I hate my AT&T...the fastest they can give me is 1.5meg. They claim that it is due to distance to the CO (though I believe that the awful wiring in our building may be the issue). I can walk to where he said the CO is (some bland AT&T building)...I walked there and back yesterday while carrying a big unwieldy object without trouble.
If their technology is really this bad, why do they bother trying to pursue it further? Comcast gave me 10x the speed for maybe 2-3x the price (I am willing to pay it, but I am currently subleasing an apartment so I am stuck with what they are willing to pay). Also, we have a pair of fancy new AT&T boxes right outside our building. I was out with the Tech when he was installing--one box is just a giant set of orderly patch panels, but the other box has a noticeable sound of fans whirring. The tech said that that box was the TV hardware for their TV over IP service. They can put a giant box (ugly as hell too) on the street outside my door with enough equipment in it to require noisy fans but they can't give me more than 1.5mbps down?
Personally I feel that the blame for that one should definitely fall on the middle manager and his underling.
If the underling didn't think to pick up the phone when email went down, his boss should have made him do it when he checked up on him (assuming at that point the email had then been down long enough to make it look like more than a 5 minute outage).
There actually is a lot of stuff of value on geocities for that very reason.
A lot of vintage knowledge was slapped up on the easiest host possible because the old guy who still had the original manuals got them scanned and put them on the only free webspace they could find.
The other day I was looking up some info on a vintage bicycle and a lot of it came from a couple of geocities pages that were certainly pretty poor designs but they were the only place I could find full page scans of the 1974 whatever catalog.
I never made the argument that a console never fails (although the recent crop of consoles sure seem a lot more failure prone than standard gaming consoles and even computers from the past).
Having chipset changes that work out "known issues" with games would be somewhat bothersome (if it is related to heat, it is not really a chipset issue...more like the old chipset was improperly cooled so the fix could be either a cooler chipset or a bigger cooler). Since games don't get the same chance for patches, having non-static hardware can be an issue--consoles should remain functionally identical across their runs. Sure you can miniaturize (PS2, PSOne), cost cut, and reduce power/heat issues but updated chipsets should maintain the functions (and bugs) of the original v1.0 chipset.
We had a party recently...the girl in charge of the music gave us an ipod touch and it sounded like CRAP.
We figured the first gen touches must have crappy audio since when we would start the same track on a computer plugged into the same speakers it would sound way better. I devised a party computer solution using a limited account on an ibook that could only run itunes without a password (and itunes was in presentation mode...hiding the menu bar/dock). We did this to prevent people from loading shit on youtube where you have to wait for it to buffer (bad when people want to dance) and it usually sounds like crap. We didn't have time to test out the music so we copied the girls playlist as well as some other party music to the limited accounts itunes library...Still sounded like crap sometimes...but the party had started so we didn't really deal with it.
The other day I was cleaning up the account and I noticed none of her mp3's had ID3 tags...just filenames. I look more closely and they have titles like "Artist - song LYRICS!" or "Artist - Song with captions" or even "New Artist video for Song"...I soon realized these were all ripped from YOUTUBE! 64kbps 22khz mono...no wonder the volume was funky and they sounded shitty on the ipod touch...can't believe anyone finds this acceptable for listening
The only issue I see with MMO spy is that there are not that many spies out there.
They need to make a spy MMO that leeches on some other mmo. Entire servers populated with normal people living out their lives (playing the standard game) with a spy game orchestrated on top of it with only a small number of players participating. The normal players have some idea that there are spys around--there may be occasional spies working for their guild as well as bad spies who they can tell are trying to spy on their guild--but they are not involved in any of the actual spy games (e.g. they can't just go get a "spy quest" just like you can't just go and become a foreign agent for the CIA).
WoW is a bad example for this game but it is the one that I am most familiar with...(EVE already has espionage going on but the player base is all too involved for it to work...you need a lot of "dumb" players who amount to live bots for the spies while they go about their usual raiding). There is no real Horde/Alliance adversity to play off but imagine there was more than just some inconsequential world pvp (there is also no real animosity between guilds as its all instanced and nothing is permanent). The spy game could provide people the ability to go under cover on the opposite side or infiltrate guilds...maybe it could be offered as a sort of diabloesqe Hardcore mode for experienced players; when you blow your cover (maybe have an "incognito" XP bar that can go up fast and down slowly) that character's espionage career is essentially over. Still playable as a normal person (if anyone trusts you) but deactivated from the spy game. There could be all sorts of things a spy might do in a game with more meaningful player conflict. Even in WoW there are sabotage opportunities in battlegrounds or ninja looting from other guilds/factions (maybe allow spy missions that give you one trade to a prearranged character for BoP items) that might require you going in deep enough to earn enough trust/DKP to get a specified item for the granter of the spy mission.
Why isn't this woman more mad at the "friend" who set her up for it?
Not only did she give out her contact info for what amounts to spam, she did it knowing that it was going to be some creepy punk'd type thing. I've got no problem with the advertising department if it worked out that way...I'd just be pissed at my friend (actually I would probably get a kick out of it...or more likely I would never have clicked the link and taken the personality test in the first place)
I may have missed it but people seem to be forgetting that in a single semester of a high school course, not that many books can be read.
It is a non-honors class which would usually imply a little more relaxed pace (although lets face it, most of the people in this class will be a bit nerdy and I'm sure everyone *could* handle it). your examples help with that as you could potential pick 2 themes (one a quarter) and be good.
In college humanities courses, I did a book a week pretty much with one session to discuss the book as it unfolds and another to discuss the completed text. In high school we spent far longer going through a book--and that was with a course meeting daily.
That is because essay prompts should look like this
One of the options the year I applied was: "Have you ever walked through the aisles of a warehouse store like Costco or Sam's Club and wondered who would buy a jar of mustard a foot and a half tall? We've bought it, but it didn't stop us from wondering about other things, like absurd eating contests, impulse buys, excess, unimagined uses for mustard, storage, preservatives, notions of bigness . . . and dozens of other ideas both silly and serious. Write an essay somehow inspired by super-huge mustard."
Well, I can see a few reasons for the stuff you mention (coming from someone who is running DD-WRT and believes that if its mine, I should be able to do whatever I want with it...even break it)
For resisting hacking in the first place, If you make the platform available by failing to protect it, you provide some level of tacit support. People will start getting mad when you push out an update or a new hardware revision that catastrophically fails on the homebrew stuff that had been working just fine, bricking the router. When you make a half-assed attempt to keep people out (even though you know they will get in), those people won't get mad at you when their stuff breaks because they know they are doing something unintended.
The increased price in the L series is the result of this. You are paying for the privilege of using hardware that would normally have been eliminated for cost savings. The WRT54G has long since switched architectures much the same way the final playstation2 had something like half the total number of chips that were in the first playstation2 since everything can be condensed cheaply (you might argue that the v5 should have had a new model number since it was REALLY different...but from the consumer standpoint, it fit inside the same plastic box and served the same purpose).
It is nice to see netgear making a tweak-friendly device but you just have to accept that this advice is going to cost a premium and probably won't get trickle down improvements to the hardware (though having changes come with a new version number is probably a good thing).
I think having it networked is a key for longevity...you know you are getting a "workgroup" class printer instead of a throwaway and it has to support some standard protocols to work on the network.
got it off slickdeals with some pricematch+rebate scheme that made it super cheap ($30 for a $600 printer). The toner cartridges go for a long time and you get a full one to start with instead of some "starter" toner. The thing is networked (I think it has USB and parallel but have used it ethernet only) and can print double sided pages which was a huge benefit for the service it saw shared amongst my 5 roommates for my last 2 years of college. It has had no problem working linux, mac, windows since there are drivers available and IIRC you can feed it just fine with postscript and pcl5 (but you might not have as much control as with the drivers that let you duplex and stuff)
An above poster mentioned the final option for being "do as you want" rich was high level consulting and C level executives. Those people make a lot of money (although just because there is a C, don't assume much...CFOs, CTOs, etc at even midsize companies often do not have million dollar salaries with endless expense accounts) but they probably work a LOT more than the average person. Between constant travel and the constant monitoring/communication expected of executives (how many blackberries do you carry?), these people are putting in enormous hours in the quest for *MORE*
They continue to do this even after the point where you could retire to a hobby job and have enough money to do what you want for the rest of your life. This is because when your goal is the money, the money you have is never enough.
The correct answer on how to make science popular again is money.
Money for basic reasearch and money for engineers. I read a draft of a paper recently written by some economists who were comparing earnings of people in finance to people in other fields that required the same skills (scientists, engineers, mathematicians). Unfortunately I can't find the paper now but it turns out for most of recent history, the payoff has been the same. IIRC, there were only two periods where the incomes of finance professionals were far ahead of people with the same skills who chose other jobs (it may have been per hour pay as well...dunno). One of those periods was just recently (and now).
We have a finance industry that is populated by a bunch of dudes with physics PhDs doing all of the heavy lifting--they came because they can double the money they would make by being a hotshot scientist by being a decent wall street worker. I would imagine that engineering and science do so well in developing countries because finance in their countries doesn't yet have such a strong comparative advantage to working in science.
Used it just fine on wireless and wired connections. A lot of the back end services are linux. There are a few computer labs with linux systems (and CS courses all use linux/osx)...there are even sun thin clients strewn about the campus for email/web using although you can pop up a shell on them with some trickery
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Does it work that way? Unless he has some fancy 3d screen (and a version of WoW that doesn't exist), everything on the screen is being portrayed on a flat plane. Sure, distance is faked using different sized objects but I don't think depth perception is actually an issue when everything is viewed at exactly the same depth.
The u-verse box has been there for a while so I would assume it is running but I can't then see why they wouldn't have tried to talk me into it when I helped my sorority girl room mates sign up for it (they were happy that we could get service for about $15 or something while comcast is $60 or so...I am unhappy that sometimes even a youtube video won't stream). It seems like a bad technology when you have to be within a mile of a multistory data center-type building just to get 1.5mb service. You would think they could put the DSL hardware in a box somewhere nearby in order to sell higher speeds to the TONS of college students who live here. Now all use comcast except the REALLY price sensitive people...my comcast speeds almost doubled in the 2 years I had it (we were getting above rated speed in the end) without the price changing and my pings were super low unless there was a problem on their end (single digit pings to my favorite TF2 server...now I am 50 at the lowest to anywhere).
If their technology is really this bad, why do they bother trying to pursue it further? Comcast gave me 10x the speed for maybe 2-3x the price (I am willing to pay it, but I am currently subleasing an apartment so I am stuck with what they are willing to pay). Also, we have a pair of fancy new AT&T boxes right outside our building. I was out with the Tech when he was installing--one box is just a giant set of orderly patch panels, but the other box has a noticeable sound of fans whirring. The tech said that that box was the TV hardware for their TV over IP service. They can put a giant box (ugly as hell too) on the street outside my door with enough equipment in it to require noisy fans but they can't give me more than 1.5mbps down?
If the underling didn't think to pick up the phone when email went down, his boss should have made him do it when he checked up on him (assuming at that point the email had then been down long enough to make it look like more than a 5 minute outage).
Will you be my IT guy? (I can still use firefox right?)
A lot of vintage knowledge was slapped up on the easiest host possible because the old guy who still had the original manuals got them scanned and put them on the only free webspace they could find.
The other day I was looking up some info on a vintage bicycle and a lot of it came from a couple of geocities pages that were certainly pretty poor designs but they were the only place I could find full page scans of the 1974 whatever catalog.
yes, I have about 3gb of files synced seamlessly between windows, osx, and ubuntu
I wonder if I can point my dropbox folder at my ubuntu one folder and have redundant web based syncing
Having chipset changes that work out "known issues" with games would be somewhat bothersome (if it is related to heat, it is not really a chipset issue...more like the old chipset was improperly cooled so the fix could be either a cooler chipset or a bigger cooler). Since games don't get the same chance for patches, having non-static hardware can be an issue--consoles should remain functionally identical across their runs. Sure you can miniaturize (PS2, PSOne), cost cut, and reduce power/heat issues but updated chipsets should maintain the functions (and bugs) of the original v1.0 chipset.
I always thought one of the arguments for going console was that this was never going to be an issue?
The added turbulence from the openings puts more strain on the engine than the AC.
We figured the first gen touches must have crappy audio since when we would start the same track on a computer plugged into the same speakers it would sound way better. I devised a party computer solution using a limited account on an ibook that could only run itunes without a password (and itunes was in presentation mode...hiding the menu bar/dock). We did this to prevent people from loading shit on youtube where you have to wait for it to buffer (bad when people want to dance) and it usually sounds like crap. We didn't have time to test out the music so we copied the girls playlist as well as some other party music to the limited accounts itunes library...Still sounded like crap sometimes...but the party had started so we didn't really deal with it.
The other day I was cleaning up the account and I noticed none of her mp3's had ID3 tags...just filenames. I look more closely and they have titles like "Artist - song LYRICS!" or "Artist - Song with captions" or even "New Artist video for Song"...I soon realized these were all ripped from YOUTUBE! 64kbps 22khz mono...no wonder the volume was funky and they sounded shitty on the ipod touch...can't believe anyone finds this acceptable for listening
They need to make a spy MMO that leeches on some other mmo. Entire servers populated with normal people living out their lives (playing the standard game) with a spy game orchestrated on top of it with only a small number of players participating. The normal players have some idea that there are spys around--there may be occasional spies working for their guild as well as bad spies who they can tell are trying to spy on their guild--but they are not involved in any of the actual spy games (e.g. they can't just go get a "spy quest" just like you can't just go and become a foreign agent for the CIA).
WoW is a bad example for this game but it is the one that I am most familiar with...(EVE already has espionage going on but the player base is all too involved for it to work...you need a lot of "dumb" players who amount to live bots for the spies while they go about their usual raiding). There is no real Horde/Alliance adversity to play off but imagine there was more than just some inconsequential world pvp (there is also no real animosity between guilds as its all instanced and nothing is permanent). The spy game could provide people the ability to go under cover on the opposite side or infiltrate guilds...maybe it could be offered as a sort of diabloesqe Hardcore mode for experienced players; when you blow your cover (maybe have an "incognito" XP bar that can go up fast and down slowly) that character's espionage career is essentially over. Still playable as a normal person (if anyone trusts you) but deactivated from the spy game. There could be all sorts of things a spy might do in a game with more meaningful player conflict. Even in WoW there are sabotage opportunities in battlegrounds or ninja looting from other guilds/factions (maybe allow spy missions that give you one trade to a prearranged character for BoP items) that might require you going in deep enough to earn enough trust/DKP to get a specified item for the granter of the spy mission.
Could be fun...
granted the particular ones he wore are not sold in the states but...he's british! Also they may or may not be worn with $1200 John Lobb shoes...
Not only did she give out her contact info for what amounts to spam, she did it knowing that it was going to be some creepy punk'd type thing. I've got no problem with the advertising department if it worked out that way...I'd just be pissed at my friend (actually I would probably get a kick out of it...or more likely I would never have clicked the link and taken the personality test in the first place)
It is a non-honors class which would usually imply a little more relaxed pace (although lets face it, most of the people in this class will be a bit nerdy and I'm sure everyone *could* handle it). your examples help with that as you could potential pick 2 themes (one a quarter) and be good.
In college humanities courses, I did a book a week pretty much with one session to discuss the book as it unfolds and another to discuss the completed text. In high school we spent far longer going through a book--and that was with a course meeting daily.
One of the options the year I applied was: "Have you ever walked through the aisles of a warehouse store like Costco or Sam's Club and wondered who would buy a jar of mustard a foot and a half tall? We've bought it, but it didn't stop us from wondering about other things, like absurd eating contests, impulse buys, excess, unimagined uses for mustard, storage, preservatives, notions of bigness . . . and dozens of other ideas both silly and serious. Write an essay somehow inspired by super-huge mustard."
For resisting hacking in the first place, If you make the platform available by failing to protect it, you provide some level of tacit support. People will start getting mad when you push out an update or a new hardware revision that catastrophically fails on the homebrew stuff that had been working just fine, bricking the router. When you make a half-assed attempt to keep people out (even though you know they will get in), those people won't get mad at you when their stuff breaks because they know they are doing something unintended.
The increased price in the L series is the result of this. You are paying for the privilege of using hardware that would normally have been eliminated for cost savings. The WRT54G has long since switched architectures much the same way the final playstation2 had something like half the total number of chips that were in the first playstation2 since everything can be condensed cheaply (you might argue that the v5 should have had a new model number since it was REALLY different...but from the consumer standpoint, it fit inside the same plastic box and served the same purpose).
It is nice to see netgear making a tweak-friendly device but you just have to accept that this advice is going to cost a premium and probably won't get trickle down improvements to the hardware (though having changes come with a new version number is probably a good thing).
Too bad they are banned from sale in the US now.
I think having it networked is a key for longevity...you know you are getting a "workgroup" class printer instead of a throwaway and it has to support some standard protocols to work on the network.
got it off slickdeals with some pricematch+rebate scheme that made it super cheap ($30 for a $600 printer). The toner cartridges go for a long time and you get a full one to start with instead of some "starter" toner. The thing is networked (I think it has USB and parallel but have used it ethernet only) and can print double sided pages which was a huge benefit for the service it saw shared amongst my 5 roommates for my last 2 years of college. It has had no problem working linux, mac, windows since there are drivers available and IIRC you can feed it just fine with postscript and pcl5 (but you might not have as much control as with the drivers that let you duplex and stuff)
An above poster mentioned the final option for being "do as you want" rich was high level consulting and C level executives. Those people make a lot of money (although just because there is a C, don't assume much...CFOs, CTOs, etc at even midsize companies often do not have million dollar salaries with endless expense accounts) but they probably work a LOT more than the average person. Between constant travel and the constant monitoring/communication expected of executives (how many blackberries do you carry?), these people are putting in enormous hours in the quest for *MORE*
They continue to do this even after the point where you could retire to a hobby job and have enough money to do what you want for the rest of your life. This is because when your goal is the money, the money you have is never enough.
Money for basic reasearch and money for engineers. I read a draft of a paper recently written by some economists who were comparing earnings of people in finance to people in other fields that required the same skills (scientists, engineers, mathematicians). Unfortunately I can't find the paper now but it turns out for most of recent history, the payoff has been the same. IIRC, there were only two periods where the incomes of finance professionals were far ahead of people with the same skills who chose other jobs (it may have been per hour pay as well...dunno). One of those periods was just recently (and now).
We have a finance industry that is populated by a bunch of dudes with physics PhDs doing all of the heavy lifting--they came because they can double the money they would make by being a hotshot scientist by being a decent wall street worker. I would imagine that engineering and science do so well in developing countries because finance in their countries doesn't yet have such a strong comparative advantage to working in science.
Used it just fine on wireless and wired connections. A lot of the back end services are linux. There are a few computer labs with linux systems (and CS courses all use linux/osx)...there are even sun thin clients strewn about the campus for email/web using although you can pop up a shell on them with some trickery