A bit too much being said - not enough details. I think another commentator felt your post was narcissistic in itself. I would agree.
1) Is there a personality clash between yourself and your (younger) co-workers? 2) Are you narcissistic and afraid other narcissists will get ahead of you? 3) Are you jealous that a younger person might actually be getting ahead?
I'm one of the newer graduates going into the work force. I don't think it is necessarily bad to try and get ahead.
All I know is: 1) The current grads are going to have the burden of taking over all the retiring boomers' jobs. In some way we'll have to get ahead fast. 2) The whole posts smells of the attitude: When I was in college, the arrogant rich kids with the bad grades always thought only they would get the best jobs.
While its easy to generalize, maybe talking to other young new grads working for your company might give a different perspective. The company I work for is very well off and probably 50% of the workforce is under 35 - unusual for the type of industry we are in. I haven't met any of the arrogant know-it-all types.
Agreed. I used the assist mode - to try and help shoot down the "Ace pilots" at the end of the demo level. I've done nothing but crash into the ground, lost sense of orientation and can't find the bad guy. Everytime I think I'm using the assist more in the right way to control the plane well, I'm not. They seriously need to fix this. The throttle is equally annoying.
I was hoping there would be some take-offs and landings. I like the idea of having carrier landings and take offs - In an arcade style mode. I was hoping this would be a modern aircraft arcade style fun game. Its lacking in some of the gameplay department for me to like it enough to purchase. I just hope Ubi fixes it. Blazing Angles - (only PC game I can think of close to Ace Combat since I do not have a console) has been most annoying. HAWX is my last hope!
Never mind upgrading. I recon the most likely thing to fail in the mini is the HDD. If you don't live near an Apple Store and work all day long, its hardly convienient to ship the HDD back to Apple abd wait for UPS to deliver it.
If its easy to replace the HDD, you can at least DIY and get another warranty replaced easily.
Here's the problem with Marketing: They spent *so* much time focusing on graphics capabilities that they forgot about the gamers and the programmers. Making a difficult to program console doesn't win gamers over - especially if there's a premium to pay for the console. It just means to gamers that there might be less games. To developers it seems Sony is trying to force them to create more exclusives. If the X360 is 100% DirectX then you instantly get two platforms to develop for (e.g. PC) which surprises me that aren't a few more games that aren't X360 + PC on release.
There's lot of great games out there that would explain why people use Emulators for NES up to PS2 and Neogeo, CPS3 etc. Nobody cares about the graphics, everybody cares about the experience. It seems with BluRay - you could cram a TON of content - of a lower quality graphic game then some ultra-hi res monster. I've seen demos of the PS3 and X360 games. I'm not sure 20 years from now people are going to say --- I want an abandonware version of _____ game!
I still have some favorite games that are on the SNES (Actraiser, Battletoads...;) ) and on the PC - Wing Commander, all the Sierra Adventure games. IMO, the cutest funnest game I've ever played is Mario Sunshine. It can also be extremely difficult on the bonus levels (getting all the stars). Story wise and environment wise, the greatest game, to me, is MGS 3. Its such an immersive experience. The graphics aren't important.
If all the developers did was refresh some of the older games' graphics, new story etc, the reduced development time could lead to longer game play, re-playability or more story development.
I prefer to play a game than watch a movie sometimes. Give me a long-enough immersive experience and I don't mind paying $100 for a game. IMO in that sense, MSG3 was my best investment ever.
IMO, I'm a bit shocked all the blueprints (if they are the real ones) are on one person's workstation that had such easy acess to the net. I would think there is a lot more at risk in this job that one would take precautions.
What I don't understand is why many workplaces -even- bother to have 99% of workstations & servers connected to the Net in some capacity. I'm a corporate n00b (just graduated) but I've worked in many large companies where everyone from the President, HR Marketing, Sales, etc's -desktop 'workstations' are connected to the Net. I'm still a bit shocked by this. I wouldn't trust any firewall, security software.... etc. if the company's earnings, employee's jobs/salaries are at risk. Its not so much that you shouldn't trust your employees. Its that you don't know everyone on the net isn't going to try to break into your system.
I agree. A friend came back from Japan and she showed me her phone. Its got a lot more bells and whistles than most other consumer-marketed phones (e.g. I have a BB). The Japanese phones have a wow really cool gadget! factor.
I don't know the technical aspects but the 5+ MP cell phone cams certainly look better than the 3 MP the GP mentions.
So what you are saying then is if you do these activities is to admit yes so you could potentially be allowed in the country - at least you wont be deported for lying????
A better lobbying effort would be: Make Adobe less of a CPU resource hog.
A have a 4 or 5 gen old dual-core w/ 2 GB RAM and at times my system almost comes to a halt with a Flash page. I feel sorry for people with lesser systems. Don't they realize this is one reason why Flash Block exists? If they are concerned with PR (the reason for this survey) then they should be more concerned that more and more people are blocking flash.
I've been reading and studying the intent of CANCON rules and the idea of Canadian content for several years.
I would first say, that Canadian print media: newspaper and magazines tend to have the purest 'Canadian content' in terms of news and current events - probably followed by talk radio since it too focuses on Canadian topics. If you go past that into other forms of media television, music, plays, 'Canadian' websites (blogs, Youtube videos) etc. it becomes really blurry. A lot of this content, or the ideas come from other origins.
So, to summarize: Cancon is not to support content. Its to support the industry. That's cool. Just stop making stupid content rules.
That OR its to support French Canadian culture. Alot of this 'culture' is simply expanded on European ancestry. So, British, Irish, Scottish, etc etc should therefore be identified and protected. But, it really isn't.
I'm not 100% sure of this but I believe there are probably some famous Canadian porn models. I can't say the Federal Gov't officially recognizes these photographic body scultures as a Canadian content, even if these beautiful women are only wearing a toque with a maple leave, have a body drizzled in Maple Syrup and are also proudly displaying the national symbol of the Beaver. I heard the cold Canadian winter can enhance the quality of the image as well.
OK, admit it, how many of you are Googling this right now, Eh?, instead of your usual 'European stuff'.?;)
BTW- Maple Syrup, Maple Leaf and Beaver should all pass the google safe search, even at work!
From what I hear this is quite true. Some people don't like Americans overseas no matter the country. So they wear the maple leaf to pretend to be Canadians to avoid being singled out. I don't mind if others confuse me with Americans. Of all the 'Americans' I've spoken with over the years, I'd reckon most of them are nicer than Canadians.
Does it even really matter? Most people surf the Net and wordprocessing. I have an iMac and a bigger/better quality LCD for my PC. If there's a difference in the pannels between the two, I don't really care wether for gaming or movies or otherwise. Maybe someone in commercial GFX design cares, but most people buying iMacs aren't.
Encrypt your resume before sending it out too. There is a lot of personal information on it.
I suggest, 1) Encrypt hard drive with True Crypt 2) Mail out hard drives to employers with resume as the only file. A cover letter might complicate things. 3) ?????? 4) Get job???
Thanks for the info, Pal. I only wished I'd have known that eariler. Busted knee caps and jaw later, I wished I hadn't given Anonymous Coward's real name. Its always the same person right?!
Here's what I'd suggest. Apple sells an iMac for $999 US, right? The hardware eats up most of their profit margins so the software you could say is sold at a loss compared to the hardware. Apple doesn't sell a lot of MacPros (that I know of). So if you take the middle road and subtract Profit Margin (avg)/per system - Support Costs = Selling Price of Retail non-Apple HW price. Its tecnically then a win-win for Apple and hopefully the consumer (I'd think the price would be more $299 and not $499.
The only thing I'd like to see if this is the case, is to have very limited HW support (out of the box) e.g. sound blaster or M-Audio sound, SATA chipsets, that kind of thing. Everything else is to the user or the manufacturers to support.
I'm not a math guy (I struggled with Calculus) so I don't understand a lot of the concepts. But I do like the hands-on approaches and casual reading. Save for the last chapter on Quantum Cryptography, Simon Sing's CodeBook is very well written and a pleasure to read.
Above all, I think its more important, in math, science or computer science, for people to get an idea as to how scientists think and might inspire them to study science or get a better appreciation for deriving new ideas by using what they already know.
I really found Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Karry Mullis to be very inspirational and informational at the same time. I think no matter what area of study the kids will go on into, reading this book will help the students get an introduction and a better appreciation of the thinking differently 'idea' that university (and Apple) seem to encourage!
I don't mean to be a pessimist, but it seems that this will, if approved, be a lengthy and costly procedure.
I'm unaware of the types of legal wrangling for a doctor and a hospital before a procedure is taken. I'm also unaware if there are any ethics reviews done prior to risky operations/treatments (brian, heart, gene therapy). Given at least the legal risks, unless there's a 99.999% success rate, I'm not sure doctors or hospitals will want the procedure in-use (even if the person is likely to die of HIV/AIDS anyways).
Since there's also process patents, I'm concerned a Pharmaceutical might buy the 'rights' to the procedure. If said Pharma already sells HIV/AIDS drugs, the price for this procedure will be very costly. I'm not sure some celebrity victims would be able to afford it.
I'm just hopeful that this is a path to the magic-bullet. This is a devastating virus that has afflicted many countries and urban populations.
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A bit too much being said - not enough details. I think another commentator felt your post was narcissistic in itself. I would agree.
1) Is there a personality clash between yourself and your (younger) co-workers?
2) Are you narcissistic and afraid other narcissists will get ahead of you?
3) Are you jealous that a younger person might actually be getting ahead?
I'm one of the newer graduates going into the work force. I don't think it is necessarily bad to try and get ahead.
All I know is:
1) The current grads are going to have the burden of taking over all the retiring boomers' jobs. In some way we'll have to get ahead fast.
2) The whole posts smells of the attitude: When I was in college, the arrogant rich kids with the bad grades always thought only they would get the best jobs.
While its easy to generalize, maybe talking to other young new grads working for your company might give a different perspective. The company I work for is very well off and probably 50% of the workforce is under 35 - unusual for the type of industry we are in. I haven't met any of the arrogant know-it-all types.
Correction: ... that's what Saddam Hussein wanted to know ...
Just to recall, Saddam was executed.
Agreed. I used the assist mode - to try and help shoot down the "Ace pilots" at the end of the demo level. I've done nothing but crash into the ground, lost sense of orientation and can't find the bad guy. Everytime I think I'm using the assist more in the right way to control the plane well, I'm not. They seriously need to fix this. The throttle is equally annoying.
I was hoping there would be some take-offs and landings. I like the idea of having carrier landings and take offs - In an arcade style mode. I was hoping this would be a modern aircraft arcade style fun game. Its lacking in some of the gameplay department for me to like it enough to purchase. I just hope Ubi fixes it. Blazing Angles - (only PC game I can think of close to Ace Combat since I do not have a console) has been most annoying. HAWX is my last hope!
Strange. Are you talking about the camera just in-behind of the plane? The PC version has a cockpit view. You can change the camera/POV.
Never mind upgrading. I recon the most likely thing to fail in the mini is the HDD. If you don't live near an Apple Store and work all day long, its hardly convienient to ship the HDD back to Apple abd wait for UPS to deliver it.
If its easy to replace the HDD, you can at least DIY and get another warranty replaced easily.
Did you bring a watch ..... really?! Are you sure they didn't just change the clock at the other end to make it look like you got there on time? ;-) ;-)
Here's the problem with Marketing: They spent *so* much time focusing on graphics capabilities that they forgot about the gamers and the programmers. Making a difficult to program console doesn't win gamers over - especially if there's a premium to pay for the console. It just means to gamers that there might be less games. To developers it seems Sony is trying to force them to create more exclusives. If the X360 is 100% DirectX then you instantly get two platforms to develop for (e.g. PC) which surprises me that aren't a few more games that aren't X360 + PC on release.
There's lot of great games out there that would explain why people use Emulators for NES up to PS2 and Neogeo, CPS3 etc. Nobody cares about the graphics, everybody cares about the experience. It seems with BluRay - you could cram a TON of content - of a lower quality graphic game then some ultra-hi res monster. I've seen demos of the PS3 and X360 games. I'm not sure 20 years from now people are going to say --- I want an abandonware version of _____ game!
I still have some favorite games that are on the SNES (Actraiser, Battletoads ... ;) ) and on the PC - Wing Commander, all the Sierra Adventure games. IMO, the cutest funnest game I've ever played is Mario Sunshine. It can also be extremely difficult on the bonus levels (getting all the stars). Story wise and environment wise, the greatest game, to me, is MGS 3. Its such an immersive experience. The graphics aren't important.
If all the developers did was refresh some of the older games' graphics, new story etc, the reduced development time could lead to longer game play, re-playability or more story development.
I prefer to play a game than watch a movie sometimes. Give me a long-enough immersive experience and I don't mind paying $100 for a game. IMO in that sense, MSG3 was my best investment ever.
IMO, I'm a bit shocked all the blueprints (if they are the real ones) are on one person's workstation that had such easy acess to the net. I would think there is a lot more at risk in this job that one would take precautions.
What I don't understand is why many workplaces -even- bother to have 99% of workstations & servers connected to the Net in some capacity. I'm a corporate n00b (just graduated) but I've worked in many large companies where everyone from the President, HR Marketing, Sales, etc's -desktop 'workstations' are connected to the Net. I'm still a bit shocked by this. I wouldn't trust any firewall, security software .... etc. if the company's earnings, employee's jobs/salaries are at risk. Its not so much that you shouldn't trust your employees. Its that you don't know everyone on the net isn't going to try to break into your system.
I agree. A friend came back from Japan and she showed me her phone. Its got a lot more bells and whistles than most other consumer-marketed phones (e.g. I have a BB). The Japanese phones have a wow really cool gadget! factor.
I don't know the technical aspects but the 5+ MP cell phone cams certainly look better than the 3 MP the GP mentions.
So what you are saying then is if you do these activities is to admit yes so you could potentially be allowed in the country - at least you wont be deported for lying????
I used failedlogic for a reason!
Hardy, har har, it sounds like you want to start a Pirate Bay floating server.
A better lobbying effort would be: Make Adobe less of a CPU resource hog.
A have a 4 or 5 gen old dual-core w/ 2 GB RAM and at times my system almost comes to a halt with a Flash page. I feel sorry for people with lesser systems. Don't they realize this is one reason why Flash Block exists? If they are concerned with PR (the reason for this survey) then they should be more concerned that more and more people are blocking flash.
I've been reading and studying the intent of CANCON rules and the idea of Canadian content for several years.
I would first say, that Canadian print media: newspaper and magazines tend to have the purest 'Canadian content' in terms of news and current events - probably followed by talk radio since it too focuses on Canadian topics. If you go past that into other forms of media television, music, plays, 'Canadian' websites (blogs, Youtube videos) etc. it becomes really blurry. A lot of this content, or the ideas come from other origins.
So, to summarize: Cancon is not to support content. Its to support the industry. That's cool. Just stop making stupid content rules.
That OR its to support French Canadian culture. Alot of this 'culture' is simply expanded on European ancestry. So, British, Irish, Scottish, etc etc should therefore be identified and protected. But, it really isn't.
I'm not 100% sure of this but I believe there are probably some famous Canadian porn models. I can't say the Federal Gov't officially recognizes these photographic body scultures as a Canadian content, even if these beautiful women are only wearing a toque with a maple leave, have a body drizzled in Maple Syrup and are also proudly displaying the national symbol of the Beaver. I heard the cold Canadian winter can enhance the quality of the image as well.
OK, admit it, how many of you are Googling this right now, Eh?, instead of your usual 'European stuff'.? ;)
BTW- Maple Syrup, Maple Leaf and Beaver should all pass the google safe search, even at work!
From what I hear this is quite true. Some people don't like Americans overseas no matter the country. So they wear the maple leaf to pretend to be Canadians to avoid being singled out. I don't mind if others confuse me with Americans. Of all the 'Americans' I've spoken with over the years, I'd reckon most of them are nicer than Canadians.
I've seen a lot of posts for the obvious: Charity, sell the system, blah, blah, blah!!!
What you need to ask yourself (if you REALLY want to make money) is: What would Dr. Evil do?
Does it even really matter? Most people surf the Net and wordprocessing. I have an iMac and a bigger/better quality LCD for my PC. If there's a difference in the pannels between the two, I don't really care wether for gaming or movies or otherwise. Maybe someone in commercial GFX design cares, but most people buying iMacs aren't.
Encrypt your resume before sending it out too. There is a lot of personal information on it.
I suggest,
1) Encrypt hard drive with True Crypt
2) Mail out hard drives to employers with resume as the only file. A cover letter might complicate things.
3) ??????
4) Get job???
Thanks for the info, Pal. I only wished I'd have known that eariler. Busted knee caps and jaw later, I wished I hadn't given Anonymous Coward's real name. Its always the same person right?!
Here's what I'd suggest. Apple sells an iMac for $999 US, right? The hardware eats up most of their profit margins so the software you could say is sold at a loss compared to the hardware. Apple doesn't sell a lot of MacPros (that I know of). So if you take the middle road and subtract Profit Margin (avg)/per system - Support Costs = Selling Price of Retail non-Apple HW price. Its tecnically then a win-win for Apple and hopefully the consumer (I'd think the price would be more $299 and not $499.
The only thing I'd like to see if this is the case, is to have very limited HW support (out of the box) e.g. sound blaster or M-Audio sound, SATA chipsets, that kind of thing. Everything else is to the user or the manufacturers to support.
That's what prosthetic eyes are for. One for everyday use. The other in a bank vault. No, not as a spare. But as an offsite back-up of your password!
I'm not a math guy (I struggled with Calculus) so I don't understand a lot of the concepts. But I do like the hands-on approaches and casual reading. Save for the last chapter on Quantum Cryptography, Simon Sing's CodeBook is very well written and a pleasure to read.
Above all, I think its more important, in math, science or computer science, for people to get an idea as to how scientists think and might inspire them to study science or get a better appreciation for deriving new ideas by using what they already know.
I really found Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Karry Mullis to be very inspirational and informational at the same time. I think no matter what area of study the kids will go on into, reading this book will help the students get an introduction and a better appreciation of the thinking differently 'idea' that university (and Apple) seem to encourage!
I don't mean to be a pessimist, but it seems that this will, if approved, be a lengthy and costly procedure.
I'm unaware of the types of legal wrangling for a doctor and a hospital before a procedure is taken. I'm also unaware if there are any ethics reviews done prior to risky operations/treatments (brian, heart, gene therapy). Given at least the legal risks, unless there's a 99.999% success rate, I'm not sure doctors or hospitals will want the procedure in-use (even if the person is likely to die of HIV/AIDS anyways).
Since there's also process patents, I'm concerned a Pharmaceutical might buy the 'rights' to the procedure. If said Pharma already sells HIV/AIDS drugs, the price for this procedure will be very costly. I'm not sure some celebrity victims would be able to afford it.
I'm just hopeful that this is a path to the magic-bullet. This is a devastating virus that has afflicted many countries and urban populations.
Correct. There will be a VULVAanic-Explosion!
Just so you're REALLY not working, I was joking. I hardly think it qualifies as a 'physics based computer simulation'!