I was really psyched about this game as I loved the sim games. I bought it yesterday but I havn't installed it yet. Reading up, this all sounds like total BS on the part of EA and I should return it and get a pirated version. I really don't pay for software all that often and I went out on a limb here out of respect for the developers and wanting to keep my game play experience easy and not wanting to deal with cracks to play online. But it sounds like buying it could lead to the opposite case. Now I'm suspicious. Does this DRM scheme rely on some spy-ware installed on my machine? Also, I have a PC and 2 laptops that I wanted to put it on for work & personal travel. Now I have to pick up the phone and get ahold of a stupid call center for permission to use my property?
Yes, its generally accepted that North American populations came in several waves over a long period of time. The greater debate is trying to nail down which was the first. This new skeleton will be tossed into the hopper of the "Clovis First" debate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture
All satellite providers very precisely align where there radio energy will land and conversely where they will get reception from.. every watt wasted costs loads of money. So all you can do is improve your reception and transmission. Buy a higher gain antenna and better align it to the provider satellite if its in geostationary or a tracking system. Going from 20dBi to 30dBi has a great impact on your maximum data rate.
Sounds like a gchat I just got from my friend:
Kevin: Just joined the ACLU - gave them $100. The ACLU just announced that they're going to challenge this bill in court.
Wired is so struggling for relevance its sad. Still waiving their data gloves in the air thinking some William Gibson cyb0r-utopia is next month.. How about first confining the term 'Research' at wired to be anything but scientific research.
I think it really would take a star to communicate with these civilizations. I'm really busy today so would any other comm/RF engineers like to approximate the hilariously low watts/m^2 this guys little flashlight would actually place onto the closest planet we know of? I bet its below the background noise of an interstellar sneeze.
Frank Gehry sucks. Why he is perpetuated as some sort of amazing artist only speaks volumes to the total crap fest that is the institutional art scene. Some high-priests walk out of the cathedral and say "this is art!" and everyone down below is so clueless as to what that even means they just lap it up. In fact, I'm going to write a nice little 3d java app to autogenerate a Frank Gehry building whenever anyone needs one and save a few bucks. Spin the wheel!! Will it be a crumpled piece of paper??! How visionary! Will it be a cylinder with a brilliant squish into the side!? OMFG, clone Ayn Rand so she may hump it!
So youre using your neighbors wifi and they call the cops. How do they even catch whose using it? I guess if you live out in the country and you have one neighbor, but for those of us who live in the cities it seems impossible unless you put some obvious identifiers on your system. "john smiths windows box"
"My guess would be stress. I've seen grown men cry over single assignments, several of them, over the years here @ VT. The engineering kids are pushed really hard, and many of them don't deal with it very well. 60 hours a week of real work are pretty normal, with classes that everage 27-50%, which are only curved at the end (and nobody knows the curve till then). Try that for 4 years while growing up... Many engineering students I know end up having fairly empty shells of personalities, as their entire lives so far have circled around work and thinly veiled attempts at having a life on the side."
This is probably the best summary of my impression of engineering school. All work, all the time, no option to ever get behind. One of my roomates once went on a rampage in his room with a folding chair. One time i had to have emergency surgery in a freak mishap and in the emergency room got them to just give me a spinal block rather than put me under so i could recover faster to do homework that night. Its a wonder more people dont snap.
They screwed up alot of our web-based financial software. If i set the number of items purchased to zero, the whole thing reboots and i get to go home for th
Complaining that the US isnt doing something is silly nationalism. (Chances are american scientists helped with one of the instruments in some form anyways.) Science should be the one thing that unifies all of us, irregardless of what border it was done within. Within the space-science community, people collaborate across continents regularly. All of NASAs large science missions have collaborations from different parts of the world and academia. Hell, im working on an environmental satellite now where half of it is being put together in Argentina because theyre really good at what they do and who gives a crap about which flag waves above it? The science is the important thing. In another project im on "in america" I'm the only person in our staff meetings whos first language was English. Success in space-science missions really does have a thousand fathers.
Good god people its just a frame of reference for everyone. Obviously the scientist modelled mars as a perfect sphere to make the quantity of water understandible to everyone, including we of the scientific tilt. 10^15 gallons doesnt do much for me.:)
Well so yes theres some water there as proven in the past but this reasonably quantifies at least how much water is there and has some big implications. Sustainable human habitation for example. Also with this enough water its probable that at one time it was a liquid ocean. Which also has the implication that Mars might have a really extreme climate cycle. Say every few million years something happens to make the ice melt, then oceans exist for awhile then the planet refreezes again, etc.
I want royalties dammit! In the 7th grade we had to 'make an invention.' Lotsa kid made things like more grippy pot holders and other crap. My plan was a bit more devious heheh. To solve the worlds energy needs I proposed the energy cycle. A generator hooked to a exercise bike basically. The catch is that all the prisoners in the US (1% of the population) would pedal 5 or 6 hours a day to make megawatts for the rest of us. I couldnt figure out the math back then to see how much power this would actually make. Either way, that was the first time i was called a fascist by my science teacher.
Yea although we can all think of a 100 reasons why the possibility of detection is pushed down to 0.00000000001%, if the hardware is already in place to give a look, then hey, why not.
Seriously. No 'fun' engineering can really be done with a bachelors degree for the most part. All you can really do is stick parts together that other people built and yes it gets boring and no its not all that valuable of a skill. To do anything advanced requiring research and going where someone else hasnt already gone you need a masters or phd. At my job a masters was required to even function at a basic level of knowledge of what we do. Think microprocessor theory & fab, antennas, RF circuits, IC design, comm-system design (as in being trusted to design one end to end), radars, space craft bla bla bla all these require a specialized masters degree really. And your department probly doesnt do any of these so go somewhere else. To stay out of management you need to be a master in something technical that most other engineers cant do. Hobbknobbing around and wearing alot of hats and being a general EE is usually a luxury only for fresh outs or small small companies. Good luck!
My uncle lost a ton of money in Lucent because his philosophy for success centered around them having the highest percentage of staff with PhDs in the industry. Take heed?
I figured they just sorta split into two teams with rival pieces of legislation on opposite goal posts and played some sort of mad max rugby with no pads to determine what passes.
If CS people want to have an interface with the electrical engineering community, it usually comes in this form. I just about shot myself last year (as an EE) working on software to handle radar signal processing and was eventually monkeying with semaphores n crap. Ugh!
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Caryl should be dragged out on the street and shot.
I was really psyched about this game as I loved the sim games. I bought it yesterday but I havn't installed it yet. Reading up, this all sounds like total BS on the part of EA and I should return it and get a pirated version. I really don't pay for software all that often and I went out on a limb here out of respect for the developers and wanting to keep my game play experience easy and not wanting to deal with cracks to play online. But it sounds like buying it could lead to the opposite case. Now I'm suspicious. Does this DRM scheme rely on some spy-ware installed on my machine? Also, I have a PC and 2 laptops that I wanted to put it on for work & personal travel. Now I have to pick up the phone and get ahold of a stupid call center for permission to use my property?
fill a big ziplock bag with sand, stick your board in there and cackle.
Yes, its generally accepted that North American populations came in several waves over a long period of time. The greater debate is trying to nail down which was the first. This new skeleton will be tossed into the hopper of the "Clovis First" debate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture
Yea uhm.. this whole buzzword sounds strangely like.. oh i dunno.. many terminals connected to a unix system circa 1980..?
All satellite providers very precisely align where there radio energy will land and conversely where they will get reception from.. every watt wasted costs loads of money. So all you can do is improve your reception and transmission. Buy a higher gain antenna and better align it to the provider satellite if its in geostationary or a tracking system. Going from 20dBi to 30dBi has a great impact on your maximum data rate.
Sounds like a gchat I just got from my friend: Kevin: Just joined the ACLU - gave them $100. The ACLU just announced that they're going to challenge this bill in court.
Wired is so struggling for relevance its sad. Still waiving their data gloves in the air thinking some William Gibson cyb0r-utopia is next month.. How about first confining the term 'Research' at wired to be anything but scientific research.
Guess the only thing to do is harass the people we actually did elect. Please look over and sign the petition from StopBigMedia!! http://action.freepress.net/campaign/sbmopenletter/
I think it really would take a star to communicate with these civilizations. I'm really busy today so would any other comm/RF engineers like to approximate the hilariously low watts/m^2 this guys little flashlight would actually place onto the closest planet we know of? I bet its below the background noise of an interstellar sneeze.
rant complete. :P
Nice.. where did you get this setup from???
So youre using your neighbors wifi and they call the cops. How do they even catch whose using it? I guess if you live out in the country and you have one neighbor, but for those of us who live in the cities it seems impossible unless you put some obvious identifiers on your system. "john smiths windows box"
"My guess would be stress. I've seen grown men cry over single assignments, several of them, over the years here @ VT. The engineering kids are pushed really hard, and many of them don't deal with it very well. 60 hours a week of real work are pretty normal, with classes that everage 27-50%, which are only curved at the end (and nobody knows the curve till then). Try that for 4 years while growing up... Many engineering students I know end up having fairly empty shells of personalities, as their entire lives so far have circled around work and thinly veiled attempts at having a life on the side."
This is probably the best summary of my impression of engineering school. All work, all the time, no option to ever get behind. One of my roomates once went on a rampage in his room with a folding chair. One time i had to have emergency surgery in a freak mishap and in the emergency room got them to just give me a spinal block rather than put me under so i could recover faster to do homework that night. Its a wonder more people dont snap.
(i went to WPI)
They screwed up alot of our web-based financial software. If i set the number of items purchased to zero, the whole thing reboots and i get to go home for th
Complaining that the US isnt doing something is silly nationalism. (Chances are american scientists helped with one of the instruments in some form anyways.) Science should be the one thing that unifies all of us, irregardless of what border it was done within. Within the space-science community, people collaborate across continents regularly. All of NASAs large science missions have collaborations from different parts of the world and academia. Hell, im working on an environmental satellite now where half of it is being put together in Argentina because theyre really good at what they do and who gives a crap about which flag waves above it? The science is the important thing. In another project im on "in america" I'm the only person in our staff meetings whos first language was English. Success in space-science missions really does have a thousand fathers.
Good god people its just a frame of reference for everyone. Obviously the scientist modelled mars as a perfect sphere to make the quantity of water understandible to everyone, including we of the scientific tilt. 10^15 gallons doesnt do much for me. :)
Well so yes theres some water there as proven in the past but this reasonably quantifies at least how much water is there and has some big implications. Sustainable human habitation for example. Also with this enough water its probable that at one time it was a liquid ocean. Which also has the implication that Mars might have a really extreme climate cycle. Say every few million years something happens to make the ice melt, then oceans exist for awhile then the planet refreezes again, etc.
I want royalties dammit! In the 7th grade we had to 'make an invention.' Lotsa kid made things like more grippy pot holders and other crap. My plan was a bit more devious heheh. To solve the worlds energy needs I proposed the energy cycle. A generator hooked to a exercise bike basically. The catch is that all the prisoners in the US (1% of the population) would pedal 5 or 6 hours a day to make megawatts for the rest of us. I couldnt figure out the math back then to see how much power this would actually make. Either way, that was the first time i was called a fascist by my science teacher.
Im not much of a phoneY (har har) but since its GSM it can in theory be unlocked to use on any carrier right?
Yea although we can all think of a 100 reasons why the possibility of detection is pushed down to 0.00000000001%, if the hardware is already in place to give a look, then hey, why not.
Seriously. No 'fun' engineering can really be done with a bachelors degree for the most part. All you can really do is stick parts together that other people built and yes it gets boring and no its not all that valuable of a skill. To do anything advanced requiring research and going where someone else hasnt already gone you need a masters or phd. At my job a masters was required to even function at a basic level of knowledge of what we do. Think microprocessor theory & fab, antennas, RF circuits, IC design, comm-system design (as in being trusted to design one end to end), radars, space craft bla bla bla all these require a specialized masters degree really. And your department probly doesnt do any of these so go somewhere else. To stay out of management you need to be a master in something technical that most other engineers cant do. Hobbknobbing around and wearing alot of hats and being a general EE is usually a luxury only for fresh outs or small small companies. Good luck!
My uncle lost a ton of money in Lucent because his philosophy for success centered around them having the highest percentage of staff with PhDs in the industry. Take heed?
I figured they just sorta split into two teams with rival pieces of legislation on opposite goal posts and played some sort of mad max rugby with no pads to determine what passes.
If CS people want to have an interface with the electrical engineering community, it usually comes in this form. I just about shot myself last year (as an EE) working on software to handle radar signal processing and was eventually monkeying with semaphores n crap. Ugh!