BestBuy bought Futureshop a while back - I'd imagine that's why there are no Futureshops in the USA. I don't think it will be too long until they disappear from Canada too.
Something tells me he can't do that on a PentiumII. I mean, come on - you mac zealots apparently aren't even reading the comments you reply to anymore.:)
A modern Wintel PC would make a Pentium II system look like a turtle too. Duh.
Maybe it's just me, but I find Calgary to be way overrated. You get a lot of the inconveniences of a big city, but few of the advantages of being a true world center.
Unless you're into oil and gas, in which case, it's a pretty good place to go.
If you're in any other industry though, you're probably better off going anywhere else - somewhere smaller (Saskatoon, Regina?) if you don't like big city life, or somewhere more cosmopolitan like Montreal or Vancouver if that's your desire.
Admittedly, I might be biased, as I've never really "touristed" in Calgary like I have in Vancouver and Montreal.
My philosophy with MS development has always been, the development environment is great, the libraries suck.
All the more reason to check out.Net - the dev environment is a vast improvement, and the libraries don't suck as much. (Actually I think that they don't suck at all, but I'm sure that as with any product, there are problems that I haven't encountered yet.)
Say what you will about MS, they know how to cater to developers - to lure them over to the "Dark Side."
Why, it would be great if you could add something like "-blog" to your search terms and eliminate 99% of the blogs out there.
I fall in the camp that would rather sort through blog links in google than page after page of links to shopping sites. A good blog link will link directly to further sources of information, often ones that wouldn't have shown up with my particular search terms.
For those times that I really don't want to see any blogs in the results, "-blog" is usually enough to get rid of them.
It's funny - every time I see a comment like this one, I read the replies, looking for people saying "don't forget [X]" - Hoping to find a hidden co-op gem.
Hasn't happened yet though:(
If you're into retro games though, check out the TG16. There were lots of co-op games of all sorts. Shooters, platformers, sports titles, puzzle games.
Recipes are a science, but technique matters quite a bit too. Ingredient quality can also affect stuff a lot.
And don't knock it - The Joy of Cooking has some awesome recipes in it;) Not to mention great sections on proper techniques. Reading it can make a huge difference in how good of a cook you are, even if it won't make you a master chef.
I don't remember where I read it (probably fortune;) but I remember reading somewhere "Cooking is an art, baking is a Science"
I largely agree because the quality of ingredients in cooking can vary so wildly, but if you buy "brand X" flour, it's pretty consistent.
Also, things like humidity can affect how your baking turns out, and knowing how to compensate is simply a matter of knowhow.
I was very close to enrolling in a local chef school until I found out how poorly the average chef gets paid around here. (And even how poorly the above average chef gets paid around here.)
So, what Miguel is saying is that Microsoft is trying to push a standard that allows for a richer UI experience using XAML. Currently.Net supports XAML, and therefore XAML is evil?
If anything, XAML is a good thing for the OS movement. Now all you have to do is build a XAML client for linux, which shouldn't be too hard (the widgets are all there, XML parsing is all there) and now you're free of the forced IE crap that you're so scared of.
In my opinion, XAML is way better than ActiveX. XAML is an open standard, being developed by (among others) IBM, HP, Sun and Oracle. None of those companies are particularly fond of Microsoft's OS monopoly...
It's all well and good to think "Microsoft is on board, it must be evil" but realize that Microsoft is trying to play nice sometimes.
You can still buy new controllers for the TG today...At least in Canada. The company that distributed fot TTI in Canada was(is) called DonSal.
My Mom bought a full set of them a little over a year ago.
And as to the pins problem - I had that happen to one of my controllers, and I had one that the entire connector came out of the cable. In both cases I shoved them back in, and they worked ok for a bit.
Nevermind that the guys at Pixar probably donate spare cycles to distributed computing projects like the search for Spock, or whatever.
[Unsubstantiated rumour time]
I know a guy who knows a guy who work(s|ed) at Pixar, and they turned the render farm over to SETI after they finished one of their movies only temporarily obviously, but still...It's not beyond the realm of possibility. So - can the whole be less than a single part?
I used to add -nude to any searches that I did on Altavista (in the days before Google) and it improved my results immensely. I'd think that using -blog in the same way would remove blogs from Google's results if such a thing really bothers you.
I don't know that you can truly say that "most games are first person shooters" With the sheer volume of games that come out every week for consoles, where FPS is very firmly in the minority.
Maybe most games you follow are FPS, but since I don't care for the genre, I couldn't name more than a handful of FPS total, though I acknowledge that there are lots out there.
With all the choice we have, it's a great time to be a gamer.
Absolutely, once you get to the interview, throw that degree out the window. Fact is though, a lot of places simply won't even let you get to the interview without that hall pass.
I'm not in Southern California though - I'm in a small Western Canadian university city, which pumps out way more CS grads than local industry can use, so it's tough slogging for anyone without a degree around here to get an entry level interview. That said, a candidate with solid work experience can still find work - the trick is to get that experience in the first place:)
I don't mean to say that having a degree is absolutely required - though my marks certainly helped me get the interviews I did - I also know for a fact that there were people in my graduating class who had better marks, but were completely antisocial, and wouldn't be able to do my job for a half hour. I also think I could have been doing what I do without a degree. I wouldn't have gotten past HR here though.
And thanks for the interview offer, but I'm pretty happy where I am, though your shop sounds like a good place to work, and would probably be a good fit for someone like me.:)
The thing a lot of people in your situation don't realize is that for every stellar candidate, like you, without a degree, there are 1000 other crap candidates that don't have a degree.
In an ideal world, hiring managers would have time to interview everyone who applied, and choose the best person for the job.
I don't know what kind of view you have from your office, but the one out my window shows a less than ideal world.
The ratio of good candidates with degrees might not be much better than the 1000:1 (I personally think it is way better than that,) but at least those people have shown that they can stick with a program - note that not having a degree proves nothing.
Give a hiring manager two identical resumes, one with a degree, one without, and it's pretty clear to me which one will get the interview.
Exactly - the 1Gb isn't the selling point to me. For that matter, I've had my own webmail set up on my own box for a couple of years now, and I offered myself over 1Gb of storage.
They're trying to do some interface things quite differently, and they used the old "OMG! FREE BEER - now that I have your attention" marketing method to get people to try it.
Sometimes I use shuffle to choose which albums I'm going to listen to. Shuffle until I hit an album I want, then back up a few tracks and play through sequentially.
I'm sure there are players out there that can do this for me, but I don't really care.
Other times I use shuffle to "uncover the gems" (as is says in the article) There are lots of songs that I wouldn't otherwise choose to listen to, but really enjoy anyway.
You should all try to be like me, because I'm not a brain damaged crackpot.
Yeah, but unlike most Tellytubbies viewers, Simpson's viewers are capable of speaking complete words, and might say "Hey!" if they've seen that one a thousand times before.
Plus, no sane person will watch the Tellytubbies consistently for more than a few years before they grow out of being amused by the phrase "Again!" The Simpson's has kept people interested for well over a decade.
You can buy pre-charged rechargable alkaline batteries actually.
Essentially though, your reasons are correct. Not to mention that at 10,000 pages between needing new batteries, you're looking at changing those batteries once every (x) months - not needing to recharge nightly.
My current ebook reader (which is a casio pocket viewer "pda") lasts between 3 and 5 months at my current reading pace, which is way better than the rechargable batteries in my cordless phone, or laptop;)
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+1 Ironic...
Well, at least they're not showing ads in the middle of movies yet.
Better mod me down so no studio exec gets a bright idea...
BestBuy bought Futureshop a while back - I'd imagine that's why there are no Futureshops in the USA. I don't think it will be too long until they disappear from Canada too.
Something tells me he can't do that on a PentiumII. I mean, come on - you mac zealots apparently aren't even reading the comments you reply to anymore. :)
A modern Wintel PC would make a Pentium II system look like a turtle too. Duh.
Maybe it's just me, but I find Calgary to be way overrated. You get a lot of the inconveniences of a big city, but few of the advantages of being a true world center.
Unless you're into oil and gas, in which case, it's a pretty good place to go.
If you're in any other industry though, you're probably better off going anywhere else - somewhere smaller (Saskatoon, Regina?) if you don't like big city life, or somewhere more cosmopolitan like Montreal or Vancouver if that's your desire.
Admittedly, I might be biased, as I've never really "touristed" in Calgary like I have in Vancouver and Montreal.
My philosophy with MS development has always been, the development environment is great, the libraries suck.
.Net - the dev environment is a vast improvement, and the libraries don't suck as much. (Actually I think that they don't suck at all, but I'm sure that as with any product, there are problems that I haven't encountered yet.)
All the more reason to check out
Say what you will about MS, they know how to cater to developers - to lure them over to the "Dark Side."
Why, it would be great if you could add something like "-blog" to your search terms and eliminate 99% of the blogs out there.
I fall in the camp that would rather sort through blog links in google than page after page of links to shopping sites. A good blog link will link directly to further sources of information, often ones that wouldn't have shown up with my particular search terms.
For those times that I really don't want to see any blogs in the results, "-blog" is usually enough to get rid of them.
You can only attach so much stuff to your ceiling before the 3 year old will find a ladder to get at it...
(In other words - easier said than done - and mine's only 16 months.)
That'll happen when you can filter all [Mac|Linux|BSD|insert topic here] zealots' comments.
Personally I'd love a "Are you a zealot" checkbox on the profiles - and then a subsequent filter to remove their cookie cutter comments:
"Buy a Mac"
"M$ sucks"
"BSD is NOT dying"
I'm too lazy to add so many foes.
It's funny - every time I see a comment like this one, I read the replies, looking for people saying "don't forget [X]" - Hoping to find a hidden co-op gem.
:(
Hasn't happened yet though
If you're into retro games though, check out the TG16. There were lots of co-op games of all sorts. Shooters, platformers, sports titles, puzzle games.
Recipes are a science, but technique matters quite a bit too. Ingredient quality can also affect stuff a lot.
;) Not to mention great sections on proper techniques. Reading it can make a huge difference in how good of a cook you are, even if it won't make you a master chef.
And don't knock it - The Joy of Cooking has some awesome recipes in it
I don't remember where I read it (probably fortune ;) but I remember reading somewhere "Cooking is an art, baking is a Science"
I largely agree because the quality of ingredients in cooking can vary so wildly, but if you buy "brand X" flour, it's pretty consistent.
Also, things like humidity can affect how your baking turns out, and knowing how to compensate is simply a matter of knowhow.
I was very close to enrolling in a local chef school until I found out how poorly the average chef gets paid around here. (And even how poorly the above average chef gets paid around here.)
So, what Miguel is saying is that Microsoft is trying to push a standard that allows for a richer UI experience using XAML. Currently .Net supports XAML, and therefore XAML is evil?
If anything, XAML is a good thing for the OS movement. Now all you have to do is build a XAML client for linux, which shouldn't be too hard (the widgets are all there, XML parsing is all there) and now you're free of the forced IE crap that you're so scared of.
In my opinion, XAML is way better than ActiveX. XAML is an open standard, being developed by (among others) IBM, HP, Sun and Oracle. None of those companies are particularly fond of Microsoft's OS monopoly...
It's all well and good to think "Microsoft is on board, it must be evil" but realize that Microsoft is trying to play nice sometimes.
You can still buy new controllers for the TG today...At least in Canada. The company that distributed fot TTI in Canada was(is) called DonSal.
My Mom bought a full set of them a little over a year ago.
And as to the pins problem - I had that happen to one of my controllers, and I had one that the entire connector came out of the cable. In both cases I shoved them back in, and they worked ok for a bit.
Nevermind that the guys at Pixar probably donate spare cycles to distributed computing projects like the search for Spock, or whatever.
[Unsubstantiated rumour time]
I know a guy who knows a guy who work(s|ed) at Pixar, and they turned the render farm over to SETI after they finished one of their movies only temporarily obviously, but still...It's not beyond the realm of possibility. So - can the whole be less than a single part?
You mean like adding -blog to your search?
I used to add -nude to any searches that I did on Altavista (in the days before Google) and it improved my results immensely. I'd think that using -blog in the same way would remove blogs from Google's results if such a thing really bothers you.
Superstore usually has the best prices in my city, though the local video game store is usually pretty good too. EB is expensive here too.
I wanted to get a game a while back, and it was $10 more USED at EB than it was NEW at Superstore (NHL Hitz IIRC)
I don't know that you can truly say that "most games are first person shooters" With the sheer volume of games that come out every week for consoles, where FPS is very firmly in the minority.
Maybe most games you follow are FPS, but since I don't care for the genre, I couldn't name more than a handful of FPS total, though I acknowledge that there are lots out there.
With all the choice we have, it's a great time to be a gamer.
They already have OGG, AAC, FLAC, and a bunch of others that I can't check right now because slashdot killed my favorite music site :)
Absolutely, once you get to the interview, throw that degree out the window. Fact is though, a lot of places simply won't even let you get to the interview without that hall pass.
:)
:)
I'm not in Southern California though - I'm in a small Western Canadian university city, which pumps out way more CS grads than local industry can use, so it's tough slogging for anyone without a degree around here to get an entry level interview. That said, a candidate with solid work experience can still find work - the trick is to get that experience in the first place
I don't mean to say that having a degree is absolutely required - though my marks certainly helped me get the interviews I did - I also know for a fact that there were people in my graduating class who had better marks, but were completely antisocial, and wouldn't be able to do my job for a half hour. I also think I could have been doing what I do without a degree. I wouldn't have gotten past HR here though.
And thanks for the interview offer, but I'm pretty happy where I am, though your shop sounds like a good place to work, and would probably be a good fit for someone like me.
The thing a lot of people in your situation don't realize is that for every stellar candidate, like you, without a degree, there are 1000 other crap candidates that don't have a degree.
In an ideal world, hiring managers would have time to interview everyone who applied, and choose the best person for the job.
I don't know what kind of view you have from your office, but the one out my window shows a less than ideal world.
The ratio of good candidates with degrees might not be much better than the 1000:1 (I personally think it is way better than that,) but at least those people have shown that they can stick with a program - note that not having a degree proves nothing.
Give a hiring manager two identical resumes, one with a degree, one without, and it's pretty clear to me which one will get the interview.
You're the exception, not the rule. Good for you!
Exactly - the 1Gb isn't the selling point to me. For that matter, I've had my own webmail set up on my own box for a couple of years now, and I offered myself over 1Gb of storage.
They're trying to do some interface things quite differently, and they used the old "OMG! FREE BEER - now that I have your attention" marketing method to get people to try it.
Sometimes I use shuffle to choose which albums I'm going to listen to. Shuffle until I hit an album I want, then back up a few tracks and play through sequentially.
I'm sure there are players out there that can do this for me, but I don't really care.
Other times I use shuffle to "uncover the gems" (as is says in the article) There are lots of songs that I wouldn't otherwise choose to listen to, but really enjoy anyway.
You should all try to be like me, because I'm not a brain damaged crackpot.
Or don't. I don't care.
Yeah, but unlike most Tellytubbies viewers, Simpson's viewers are capable of speaking complete words, and might say "Hey!" if they've seen that one a thousand times before.
Plus, no sane person will watch the Tellytubbies consistently for more than a few years before they grow out of being amused by the phrase "Again!" The Simpson's has kept people interested for well over a decade.
You can buy pre-charged rechargable alkaline batteries actually.
;)
Essentially though, your reasons are correct. Not to mention that at 10,000 pages between needing new batteries, you're looking at changing those batteries once every (x) months - not needing to recharge nightly.
My current ebook reader (which is a casio pocket viewer "pda") lasts between 3 and 5 months at my current reading pace, which is way better than the rechargable batteries in my cordless phone, or laptop