Same here. I studied CS at a German university. We had to have a second, non CS subject on our curriculum. I tried electric engineering and failed miserably. So I switched to medicine.
Oh boy, these were low hanging fruit. Basically what they teach is knowledge. Not understanding. You can get through a medicine class by memorizing books and not understanding any of it. Also the subject seems to attract a lot of people who want to "heal people". Folks who shouldn't be in academia AT ALL. Some basic physics is(was, it's 15 years ago) mandatory for med students. And many of them fail that one miserably.
Which is good because that got a lot of people with proper academic cred laid.
I second the "no faith" vote for a run of the mill MD.
You navigate the apps on your screen with the right stick. One of the four buttons starts a selected app. Start buttons gets you to the home screen. And so on.
Quality wise there is alot of crapware.
But there are games like Puddle, Machinarium and so on. You need to know what to search for. Riptide is actually a very nice jet sky arcade racer that showcases what tablets were capable of a year or so ago. There is a quite nicely done Sonic port and a lot of PS2 games have been ported, too. Can't vouch for them for lack of interest. ...but you have to sift through a lot of crap and need to visit an Android gaming site.
Not sure. Handheld devices are absolutely fine for casual games and a gaming pc doesn't have to be expensive due to a lot of games still bein in the DirectX 9 bracket. Rumor has it that nVidia got snubbed both by Microsoft and Sony for the next gen consoles. So they may very well be very serious about pushing their new SoC as a serious gaming contender. Consider this screen-duct-taped-to-XBox-controller contraption a proof of concept. they are showcasing Tegra4 and not that thing. How else would you present a bnew chipset? If there aren't any gadgets using them atm, simply glue one together yourself.
Don't hold your breath waiting for this thing to appear in any store soon.
Pricing those new consoles will be a bitch. And since Valve has also thrown its hat into the ring it might be time to break out the popcorn.
I predict a lot of drama when they announce that their new consoles won't play current gen console games.
The first batch will die due to manufacturing problems.
The first games will be gimicky show-offs of the next gen console's party trick.
Sony will introduce angular vaguely disk-shaped objects for storage. While Microsoft goes for roundish bovine expulsions. ...and the fanbois will declare war on each other totally forgetting that they own both a XBox360 and a PS3 and have been for quite some time and silently.
The entertainment these consoles offer is endless.
They were released with not enough memory causing all sorts of problems. And today, now, they are complete and utter crap.
Your filet mingon today will be your crap tomorrow.
I will get an Ouya since I know that there are a lot of games on Android with controller support. And here's to hoping that the remaining ones will patch it in for the extra revenue.
Simulated twin stick controls are horrible. Same goes for this move-your-device controls. I had hooked up my Transformer Prime to my monitor(playing it with 3D glasses on...because I can not because I enjoy it) and played Riptide with my PS3 controller. I kid you not the experience is completely different. The game gained a lot of depth.
Sure, a game like Zen Pinball works absolutely fine on the tablet with on-screen controls. But that's fucking Pinball! Two buttons and that's it! I wouldn't even dream to play Sonic without my controller. And why Samurai Vengeance 2 doesn't support controllers is beyond me. I don't know how Machinarium can be played with a controller, but Puddle already(obviously) has support.
My point being is that there are already a lot of games with controller support and a lot of games that can have that easily patched in. And a LOT of current gen indie games are being ported. People are BEGGING to have Grimrock on Android. BEGGING!
Also I remember a take on him were he actually enjoyed cracking ribs and commenting on how he had disabled them for life. That comic was highly controversial. Also Robin nearly killed Hal Jordan. In a room painted yellow. Stone cold bastard. Could've been one of the Miller ones.
And even in the other comics I highly doubt he has never killed. A lot of his attacks were potentially lethal. Same goes for the Batman movies and games.
That already awefully sounds like entrapment.
Prosecuting a crime that wouldn't have been committed if it hadn't been encouraged by a LEO is sort of not ok.
Or when it comes to games you'll find that some DRM(Games for Windows Live) isn't available in some countries.
I'm sorry, but if you can't be arsed to sell your stuff and it gets pirated then you can't claim lost sales. At all.
Same goes for DVDs, Books, Comics and other stuff. You didn't find a regional publisher for those? You think that the hassle to actually sell your goods outweighs revenue? Boohoo. Cry me a river. But do so silently.
Also, regional publishing rights. These need to go. Electronic goods distribution has been international since the Internet. If it takes you 20 years to react to a fact of life, then maybe -just maybe- your business modell doesn't deserve to survive. Just maybe.
If piracy is indeed a service problem(Steam/GoG/Humble bundle sales seem to indicate so), then it is made worse by regional publishing rights.
Did you know that you could lose your whole Steam/Amazon library just for moving into a different publishing region?
Easily. The better ones already have controller support. I've hooked up a PS3 controller to my android tablet. All you need is Bluetooth or USB.
Also there is DosBox + Bluetooth mouse for your Master of Magic and Dungeon Keeper needs.
And with the newly announced SoC you can have independent display on your tablet and your HDMI connected viewing screen. Which sounds awefully like that new Nintendo thing.
All the standard stuff has already been there for some time.
Fun fact: I even give presentations with my tablet hooked up to an HDMI projector and control it with a PS3 controller. Afterwards I usually get asked by members of the audience where they can get all that stuff. simple: from a shop. As long as it doesn't have an Apple logo on the outside, of course.
It is iApple stuff that's left out in the rain. They don't do any of those. What with no emulators and non-standard connections and such.
The problem is, this is low-brow crime we are talking about. The kind of thief that only doesn't get caught because he steals only easily shiftable Brand-X stuff.
Those types are not in the same networks as execs and rightfully expect to be ratted out if they tried to shift something conspicuous.
Also most likely they are only semi-literate meth-heads who wouldn't know an MS prototype from their ellbow. All those need is the cash for their next hit. Fast.
Nah, drinking soldiers usually are fine and they share what they have. Which I know from experience.
We were talking about nutjobs who still have their gun at home and go haywire.
I'm German and lived for about a year in Switzerland(mostly pretending to be mute, obviously:p). I had never seen an assault rifle in my life and suddenly I'm surrounded by them on a train. That was quite a shock.
...or the time I had an infection and my doctor wanted to put me on antibiotica. I had asked him if they had tested those 'orrible, 'orrible bacteria and chose the right medicine or if it simply was one of those "kill them all, let god sort out his own" things. I was ill and reasonably confident that stuff would help me. But it was administered with no real care.
He didn't even know what I was talking about. Seems like the sole ambition of that profession is to have a multi-resistant bug named after them. Preferably a lethal one. Those get your name into the yellow press.
I don't get why the US press(even Slashdot) feels the needs to print opposing views no matter how disreputable and discredited in each and every article? "Fair and balanced" does not include handing a mike to the next nutter who does not agree that the sky is blue. If they were even as honest to say "AAPS(an organization with views widely disregarded in the medical community)" then they wouldn't give them creedence. And that's why a new name is all you need for your League of Nutjobs. Call it Concerned Parents for Sedentiary Equines. Instant Oprah invitation.
Today a spokesman for the CPSE(Concerned Paravents for Sedentiary Equines) today has confirmed that indeed the world did end on December 21st. He has dismissed the comments of a Mayan spokesperson who said they 'simply started a new calendar as they always had planned'.
There. Instant, reasonably sounding newsblurb. Totally asinine. Film at 11.
Back in my university days I met a lot of medical students that did hold esoteric beliefs that defied sense and reason. Without any scientific backing. I'm not talking religion but physically unsound things. One had ampules of water duct taped to her dorm walls to counter the earths magnetic field which caused her sleeplessness. There was of course also the Jesus squad. And homeopathy. And other assorted nonesense
Funnily I never met such nut jobs in the physics and maths and CS faculties. Just a couple of delicious yet socially awkward nerdlings. Including the girls.
IMHO it is high time to not honor the religious feelings of other people. They need to grow a pair. Ovaries/testies, whichever they prefer.
That happens about once a year. And it is non-news outside of the Swiss press. Within Switzerland it simply rekindles the same discussion every time with the same results. As of yet, no fringe nutter organization has yet called for a Gun Appreciation Day.
Thankfully there are guidelines how to keep ammunition and gun strictly apart.
If you ride a Swiss train on a Friday evening then you will see more young men in close conjunction to guns than you have ever seen in your whole life.
The whole country is a marvel. Something like Switzerland shouldn't work. Yet it does brilliantly. Nobody knows why. Including the Swiss.
Congress had voted FOR the the current budget. They are now haggling over how to HANDLE the debt that is neccessary to foot the bill.
The Republicans are only saying they are fiscally responsible. They actually like to spend a lot of cash on things a lot of people consider frivolous. Or choose not to earn a lot of cash due to ideological reasons.
Also the GOP has never been a unified party. They are a bit of a hodepodge conglomeration of moderates and nutjobs. Mr Boehner has a hell of a time negotiating within his party to define a party line and make them stick to it. Which is why the GOP in its present form isn't a relyable negotiating partner. Which is why we are currently watching in amazement how no progress whatsoever is being made.
Coming to think of it we'd just as well do away with political parties and have everybody negotiating with anybody individually in Congress. That wouldn't be much slower than it is now. It's as democratically dysfunctional as Germany was in the 1920ies. But this mess is just a mess of two.
What should he do? Congress has voted for the budget but is voting against the bill for it. Dear Mr. President is only of the Executive branch and there is quite a lot he can't do. That's what Congress is for.
But you may be right that the GOP is in for hard times. Christie was quite, quite clever when he attacked the GOP congress critters and showed up with The Prez on Sandy mayhem. Pandering the right has not only cost the GOP the election but also the party. They embraced the Teabaggers for short term populistic election advantages and when they turned out to be dysfunctional and unable to participate in a democratic decision making process they didn't drop them like a hot potatoe.
A moderate conservative must have been quite bewildered these past two years.
I wonder how big a coin would have to be to fit all the numbers on it. Also I think there are regulations that blind people need to be able to recognize it by touch.
They surely wouldn't want to mint something that could've been on display in the Batcave! They'd have Two-Face all over it.
Am I the only one who can't even pretend to take this seriously?
I'm not sure what bit of Europe you are currently talking about. Greece is in serious trouble due to decades of mismanagement. Italy and Spain are in a bit of trouble. But none of those countries(apart from Greece) has suffered from millions of foreclosures.
Oh, and avoid Great Britain. According to them they are going down the crapper fast. The rest of Europe is watching in bewilderment and ask themselves what they are talking about. Must be the weather.
Also avoid France. They are a bit...French.
Belgium doesn't want to be Belgium anymore. Who blames them?
Switzerland would be nice. But they are in the middle of Europe and in severe denial of it.
Germany is still wondering what they did right and how the hell that could happen. Seriously, WTF?
In fact stay away from Europe. It is confusing as hell. They also use metric. And speak unpronouncable languages that constantly sound like they are swearing at you.
Tongue placed firmly in cheek. Foot entering mouth.
It will be sold to any two-bit dictatorship that has enough cash and an "embassy" in Berlin. Selling arms is much better than going to war yourself. ...especially if your electorate immediately initiates a vigil when the word "war" only gets mentioned. It is the ultimate vote loser.
A plan is a sequence of events that are guaranteed not to occur in that order.
If you rely on your projections and initial planning will actually happen in that way then you are properly fucked. Planning is an ongoing process and should be treated as such. I've been on the receiving end of enough death marches to know that the "final push" will only leave you shot to bits and bleeding in nomansland. There is always an alternative. But you need to be looking for one soon enough. When the shit has hit the fan then it is too late. You have to react while the poo flinging monkey is eating a substential meal and the servicemen start wondering what to do about air circulation. You might be able to catch the poo in mid-air. Brown hands are preferable to brown faces.
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Same here. I studied CS at a German university. We had to have a second, non CS subject on our curriculum. I tried electric engineering and failed miserably. So I switched to medicine.
Oh boy, these were low hanging fruit. Basically what they teach is knowledge. Not understanding. You can get through a medicine class by memorizing books and not understanding any of it. Also the subject seems to attract a lot of people who want to "heal people". Folks who shouldn't be in academia AT ALL. Some basic physics is(was, it's 15 years ago) mandatory for med students. And many of them fail that one miserably.
Which is good because that got a lot of people with proper academic cred laid.
I second the "no faith" vote for a run of the mill MD.
You navigate the apps on your screen with the right stick. One of the four buttons starts a selected app. Start buttons gets you to the home screen. And so on.
...but you have to sift through a lot of crap and need to visit an Android gaming site.
Quality wise there is alot of crapware.
But there are games like Puddle, Machinarium and so on. You need to know what to search for. Riptide is actually a very nice jet sky arcade racer that showcases what tablets were capable of a year or so ago. There is a quite nicely done Sonic port and a lot of PS2 games have been ported, too. Can't vouch for them for lack of interest.
Not sure. Handheld devices are absolutely fine for casual games and a gaming pc doesn't have to be expensive due to a lot of games still bein in the DirectX 9 bracket. Rumor has it that nVidia got snubbed both by Microsoft and Sony for the next gen consoles. So they may very well be very serious about pushing their new SoC as a serious gaming contender.
Consider this screen-duct-taped-to-XBox-controller contraption a proof of concept. they are showcasing Tegra4 and not that thing. How else would you present a bnew chipset? If there aren't any gadgets using them atm, simply glue one together yourself.
Don't hold your breath waiting for this thing to appear in any store soon.
Pricing those new consoles will be a bitch. And since Valve has also thrown its hat into the ring it might be time to break out the popcorn.
I predict a lot of drama when they announce that their new consoles won't play current gen console games.
...and the fanbois will declare war on each other totally forgetting that they own both a XBox360 and a PS3 and have been for quite some time and silently.
The first batch will die due to manufacturing problems.
The first games will be gimicky show-offs of the next gen console's party trick.
Sony will introduce angular vaguely disk-shaped objects for storage. While Microsoft goes for roundish bovine expulsions.
The entertainment these consoles offer is endless.
Well, we get high-res content patches. So that's good.
They were released with not enough memory causing all sorts of problems. And today, now, they are complete and utter crap.
Your filet mingon today will be your crap tomorrow.
I will get an Ouya since I know that there are a lot of games on Android with controller support. And here's to hoping that the remaining ones will patch it in for the extra revenue.
Simulated twin stick controls are horrible. Same goes for this move-your-device controls. I had hooked up my Transformer Prime to my monitor(playing it with 3D glasses on...because I can not because I enjoy it) and played Riptide with my PS3 controller. I kid you not the experience is completely different. The game gained a lot of depth.
Sure, a game like Zen Pinball works absolutely fine on the tablet with on-screen controls. But that's fucking Pinball! Two buttons and that's it! I wouldn't even dream to play Sonic without my controller. And why Samurai Vengeance 2 doesn't support controllers is beyond me. I don't know how Machinarium can be played with a controller, but Puddle already(obviously) has support.
My point being is that there are already a lot of games with controller support and a lot of games that can have that easily patched in. And a LOT of current gen indie games are being ported. People are BEGGING to have Grimrock on Android. BEGGING!
Also I remember a take on him were he actually enjoyed cracking ribs and commenting on how he had disabled them for life. That comic was highly controversial. Also Robin nearly killed Hal Jordan. In a room painted yellow. Stone cold bastard. Could've been one of the Miller ones.
And even in the other comics I highly doubt he has never killed. A lot of his attacks were potentially lethal. Same goes for the Batman movies and games.
That already awefully sounds like entrapment.
Prosecuting a crime that wouldn't have been committed if it hadn't been encouraged by a LEO is sort of not ok.
Or when it comes to games you'll find that some DRM(Games for Windows Live) isn't available in some countries.
I'm sorry, but if you can't be arsed to sell your stuff and it gets pirated then you can't claim lost sales. At all.
Same goes for DVDs, Books, Comics and other stuff. You didn't find a regional publisher for those? You think that the hassle to actually sell your goods outweighs revenue? Boohoo. Cry me a river. But do so silently.
Also, regional publishing rights. These need to go. Electronic goods distribution has been international since the Internet. If it takes you 20 years to react to a fact of life, then maybe -just maybe- your business modell doesn't deserve to survive. Just maybe.
If piracy is indeed a service problem(Steam/GoG/Humble bundle sales seem to indicate so), then it is made worse by regional publishing rights.
Did you know that you could lose your whole Steam/Amazon library just for moving into a different publishing region?
So? You can navigate stock Android with a PS3 Controller.
Easily. The better ones already have controller support. I've hooked up a PS3 controller to my android tablet. All you need is Bluetooth or USB.
Also there is DosBox + Bluetooth mouse for your Master of Magic and Dungeon Keeper needs.
And with the newly announced SoC you can have independent display on your tablet and your HDMI connected viewing screen. Which sounds awefully like that new Nintendo thing.
All the standard stuff has already been there for some time.
Fun fact: I even give presentations with my tablet hooked up to an HDMI projector and control it with a PS3 controller. Afterwards I usually get asked by members of the audience where they can get all that stuff. simple: from a shop. As long as it doesn't have an Apple logo on the outside, of course.
It is iApple stuff that's left out in the rain. They don't do any of those. What with no emulators and non-standard connections and such.
Still: Caution! Google inside.
The problem is, this is low-brow crime we are talking about. The kind of thief that only doesn't get caught because he steals only easily shiftable Brand-X stuff.
Those types are not in the same networks as execs and rightfully expect to be ratted out if they tried to shift something conspicuous.
Also most likely they are only semi-literate meth-heads who wouldn't know an MS prototype from their ellbow. All those need is the cash for their next hit. Fast.
Nah, drinking soldiers usually are fine and they share what they have. Which I know from experience.
:p). I had never seen an assault rifle in my life and suddenly I'm surrounded by them on a train. That was quite a shock.
We were talking about nutjobs who still have their gun at home and go haywire.
I'm German and lived for about a year in Switzerland(mostly pretending to be mute, obviously
Never dealt with engineers. Can't speak for them.
All I can say is that the medical profession of all academical degrees seems to attract the most unscientific people.
...or the time I had an infection and my doctor wanted to put me on antibiotica. I had asked him if they had tested those 'orrible, 'orrible bacteria and chose the right medicine or if it simply was one of those "kill them all, let god sort out his own" things. I was ill and reasonably confident that stuff would help me. But it was administered with no real care.
He didn't even know what I was talking about. Seems like the sole ambition of that profession is to have a multi-resistant bug named after them. Preferably a lethal one. Those get your name into the yellow press.
I don't get why the US press(even Slashdot) feels the needs to print opposing views no matter how disreputable and discredited in each and every article? "Fair and balanced" does not include handing a mike to the next nutter who does not agree that the sky is blue. If they were even as honest to say "AAPS(an organization with views widely disregarded in the medical community)" then they wouldn't give them creedence.
And that's why a new name is all you need for your League of Nutjobs. Call it Concerned Parents for Sedentiary Equines. Instant Oprah invitation.
Today a spokesman for the CPSE(Concerned Paravents for Sedentiary Equines) today has confirmed that indeed the world did end on December 21st. He has dismissed the comments of a Mayan spokesperson who said they 'simply started a new calendar as they always had planned'.
There. Instant, reasonably sounding newsblurb. Totally asinine. Film at 11.
Back in my university days I met a lot of medical students that did hold esoteric beliefs that defied sense and reason. Without any scientific backing. I'm not talking religion but physically unsound things. One had ampules of water duct taped to her dorm walls to counter the earths magnetic field which caused her sleeplessness. There was of course also the Jesus squad. And homeopathy. And other assorted nonesense
Funnily I never met such nut jobs in the physics and maths and CS faculties. Just a couple of delicious yet socially awkward nerdlings. Including the girls.
IMHO it is high time to not honor the religious feelings of other people. They need to grow a pair. Ovaries/testies, whichever they prefer.
That happens about once a year. And it is non-news outside of the Swiss press. Within Switzerland it simply rekindles the same discussion every time with the same results. As of yet, no fringe nutter organization has yet called for a Gun Appreciation Day.
Thankfully there are guidelines how to keep ammunition and gun strictly apart.
If you ride a Swiss train on a Friday evening then you will see more young men in close conjunction to guns than you have ever seen in your whole life.
The whole country is a marvel. Something like Switzerland shouldn't work. Yet it does brilliantly. Nobody knows why. Including the Swiss.
Congress had voted FOR the the current budget. They are now haggling over how to HANDLE the debt that is neccessary to foot the bill.
The Republicans are only saying they are fiscally responsible. They actually like to spend a lot of cash on things a lot of people consider frivolous. Or choose not to earn a lot of cash due to ideological reasons.
Also the GOP has never been a unified party. They are a bit of a hodepodge conglomeration of moderates and nutjobs. Mr Boehner has a hell of a time negotiating within his party to define a party line and make them stick to it. Which is why the GOP in its present form isn't a relyable negotiating partner. Which is why we are currently watching in amazement how no progress whatsoever is being made.
Coming to think of it we'd just as well do away with political parties and have everybody negotiating with anybody individually in Congress. That wouldn't be much slower than it is now. It's as democratically dysfunctional as Germany was in the 1920ies. But this mess is just a mess of two.
What should he do? Congress has voted for the budget but is voting against the bill for it. Dear Mr. President is only of the Executive branch and there is quite a lot he can't do. That's what Congress is for.
But you may be right that the GOP is in for hard times. Christie was quite, quite clever when he attacked the GOP congress critters and showed up with The Prez on Sandy mayhem. Pandering the right has not only cost the GOP the election but also the party. They embraced the Teabaggers for short term populistic election advantages and when they turned out to be dysfunctional and unable to participate in a democratic decision making process they didn't drop them like a hot potatoe.
A moderate conservative must have been quite bewildered these past two years.
I wonder how big a coin would have to be to fit all the numbers on it. Also I think there are regulations that blind people need to be able to recognize it by touch.
They surely wouldn't want to mint something that could've been on display in the Batcave! They'd have Two-Face all over it.
Am I the only one who can't even pretend to take this seriously?
I'm not sure what bit of Europe you are currently talking about. Greece is in serious trouble due to decades of mismanagement. Italy and Spain are in a bit of trouble. But none of those countries(apart from Greece) has suffered from millions of foreclosures.
Oh, and avoid Great Britain. According to them they are going down the crapper fast. The rest of Europe is watching in bewilderment and ask themselves what they are talking about. Must be the weather.
Also avoid France. They are a bit...French.
Belgium doesn't want to be Belgium anymore. Who blames them?
Switzerland would be nice. But they are in the middle of Europe and in severe denial of it.
Germany is still wondering what they did right and how the hell that could happen. Seriously, WTF?
In fact stay away from Europe. It is confusing as hell. They also use metric. And speak unpronouncable languages that constantly sound like they are swearing at you.
Tongue placed firmly in cheek. Foot entering mouth.
What can possibly go wrong...?! :p
It will be sold to any two-bit dictatorship that has enough cash and an "embassy" in Berlin. Selling arms is much better than going to war yourself.
...especially if your electorate immediately initiates a vigil when the word "war" only gets mentioned. It is the ultimate vote loser.
A plan is a sequence of events that are guaranteed not to occur in that order.
If you rely on your projections and initial planning will actually happen in that way then you are properly fucked. Planning is an ongoing process and should be treated as such. I've been on the receiving end of enough death marches to know that the "final push" will only leave you shot to bits and bleeding in nomansland. There is always an alternative. But you need to be looking for one soon enough. When the shit has hit the fan then it is too late. You have to react while the poo flinging monkey is eating a substential meal and the servicemen start wondering what to do about air circulation. You might be able to catch the poo in mid-air. Brown hands are preferable to brown faces.