I feel that mouse/keyboard is a hack that only works for certain types of games. Games aren't meant to be played with mouse/keyboard, it just happens to be what everyone had laying around. It's also less comfortable.
I can understand certain types of games converging to a mouse-like control. However the keyboard is a joke for gaming. At least drop the keyboard and give me a real gaming tool for my left hand.
You're wrong about the keyboard. It's necessary to have a lot of key buttons available for RTS games so that abilities, stances, formations, and moves can be executed efficiently. I haven't played a console RTS, but console RPS use the shoulder buttons on a gamepad to cycle through weapons usually. If I want weapon 9 and I'm at weapon 5, I should be able to jump to weapon 9 without going through weapon 6-8.
The lack of competitive RTS on the consoles should indicate that a keyboard and mouse achieves something that's necessary for some genres to thrive.
Rural electrification happened only through government intervention. The free market never stepped up to the plate to provide that infrastructure. Firefighting was socialized as a service because the private for-profit firefighting was a terrible service that often times did not protect their clients against the fire. The socialized health care systems are simply more efficient that the United States health care system.
. I guess my question is: What are the advantages of a Sun workstation over a PC - on the desktop?
What is this "Sun workstation" of which you speak? There is no such thing. Sun hasn't made or sold desktop SPARC for a couple of years, now.
I thought it was the amount of registers on the Sun processor. With the amount of registers available, more primitive variables didn't need to be swapped into memory and function calls would need to store the outer scope in memory as frequently.
Relax:-). I ended up enjoying computer science thoroughly and I caught my second wind. I never got explore the wonders of programming languages beyond C when I was physicist, because physics programming is about getting the simulation out and no professor will be happy with their students learning esoteric programming languages. I like that I'm enlightened now about functional programming languages and that I can understand the DOM and RESTful interaction now.
I have several friends who quit after their Masters too and one ended up retraining as a financial mathematician and he has read the textbook you mentioned. Finance isn't high on my priority right now. I just don't care too much in investments and rates of returns right now. I could eventually, but I'm happy as a cell phone application developer right now.
I finished optimistically in my Masters in physics in 2005. I was going to take a few months off before starting my PhD to look for jobs and accept one because I was undecided about doing a PhD. I discovered that no employer was really looking for a physics education and I returned to the PhD program bitter. Being a graduate student eventually ends and ultimately, that education needs to be translated into sustainable work. Otherwise, it's just lost income opportunities by consuming time to get an education. Being able to start a family matters and being able to settle down and buy a house matters. And the people saying that science education is so valuable and so important to do aren't making those sacrifices themselves. They're the ones with their own house and vehicle and starting their family life.
I ended up retraining as an accountant but I then realized I was incredibly bored after six months, so I took computer science instead and I discovered I liked it a lot more. And the material is interesting to read even outside of class. And I get job interviews too. I still think it's a challenging market as a programmer in Saskatchewan, but there's still more demand for it than in physics or engineering.
Other friends who stuck it out for the PhD are now discovering that things are going awry for them. They can't find jobs and they don't have the income they thought they would.
There was an article http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/professionalization-in-academy basically explaining that jobs that are safe are jobs that can't be shipped over the wire. The trades and the health sector seem to fit that category. There just isn't a demand for science and I cringed when I heard that the Liberals have education tax credit plans for university students. it just seems to be flooding the market with more university majors without employer demand for the degree.
Code does not demonstrate quickness though. The whole point of doing the the work on pen and paper is to be able to recall the solution technique from memory quickly and solve it quickly. The calculator is doing the work for you and speaking as a former physics and mathematics teaching assistant, the calculator robbed people from developing their own understanding and comfort of the problem. The best example I can think of is that if you're not playing around with your own operating system and are always reliant on your children to fix problems, you're never going to be comfortable with the use of the OS.
I agree with this. Speaking as a former physics graduate student that didn't see the light at the end of the tunnel and went back for a computer science degree (which I then later discovered that I enjoyed more), there's paradigms in the computer science world that can and should be used in the physics programming world.
a) my physics friend that quit physics from the same university was describing how he and his supervisor would always tag code revisions by renaming files. I then pointed out there's version control tools like Git, SVN, and Mercurial that do just that without the pain.
b) Another friend was saying how they target multiple processors on a distributed server farm was to split their code files into multiple code files with the for and while block structures changed such that each compiled code file operates on a different iteration of data . Rather than just using threaded libraries that do the same thing without the compilation inconvenience of splitting the code file.
Example just to make it clear
for (int i = 0; i 10; i++) {
doSomething();
}
would become 5 fives of
for (int i = 0; i 2; i++) {
doSomething();
}
for (int i = 2; i 4; i++) {
doSomething();
}
To be honest. I don't think my physics friend's knew that arguments could be fetched from the command line from the program, so that they could at last launch multiple processes that compute different data ranges without the need for recomputation.
He can tell his daughter to use protection and to avoid partners that do not use protection. I agree that the schools should be honest about sexual education, but him as a parent avoiding sexual education discussion is cowardice on his part.
Seriously, what's wrong with a sexually active girl anyways? if they're using protection and contraceptives, I don't see why the teenagers in small towns shouldn't be allowed sexually active among themselves.
Here's a backup article that supports the claim that the job market prospects in science suck and not worthy of consideration. I regret having taking a physics degree when most employers outside of university don't consider it an asset compared to the business program degrees.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411562_Salzman_Science.pdf
Are you retarded? Importing nations are the ones that buy raw resources and use it to manufacture the goods to the rest of the world because it's in the exporter's advantage to only sell their resources. A low dollar means you can't buy the fuel you need, the metals, or uranium, to produce goods for your own manufacturing economy. It's not in a superpower's best interest to start selling off it's in own natural resources before everyone else has exhausted theirs.
Well, Chavez is a politician. Astounding as it may seem, he may have had to make a political decision on whether to prosecute the individuals involved in a coup.
Conservatism isn't a philosophy of conservation. It's roots can be traced back to Burke who argued that society shouldn't embrace every new idea being mentioned and should change slowly if at all. He also argued that we should trust in the aristocracy to do it's job and social heirarchy is important to a society.
Your examples of what conservatism means isn't actually what conservatism means. You're ignorant of your terminology.
Classical liberals would probably favor balanced budgets.
I think the environment is something any philosophy could possibly embrace.
Lastly, socialists, social democrats, communists, and welfare liberals would probably attempt to give households more leverage over privatized corporations.
Well, for the Christian and Islamic God, yes, absolutely.
The Problem of Evil
God is defined as
1) all-knowing
2) all-powerful
3) all-good
If 1) then God knows about evil
If 2) then God has the power to stop evil
If 3) then God will prevent evil
So evil shouldn't exist but this leads to a contradiction because evil does exist.
So either evil doesn't exist and then Christians and Muslims lose the ability to morally judge people, or God's definition is changed from the Christian & Muslim definition.
Some people like to launch into a debate claiming that we have free will.
But free will contradicts with 1). We can't possibly have free will and yet our actions still be predetermined. This is another paradox with the Christian God.
It was balanced. The units were unique. There existed several strategies for each race and the game involved fighting over limited resources on the low money maps.
DetriusXii
Is the existence of evil in a universe created by an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good being. If you say we have free will to choose evil, then that goes against God's all-knowing nature and the ability for Mary and Jesus to always choose good.
If you claim evil serves a greater purpose, then you take away the claim that all humans are of infinite value.
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Meh, I prefer a gamepad.
I feel that mouse/keyboard is a hack that only works for certain types of games. Games aren't meant to be played with mouse/keyboard, it just happens to be what everyone had laying around. It's also less comfortable.
I can understand certain types of games converging to a mouse-like control. However the keyboard is a joke for gaming. At least drop the keyboard and give me a real gaming tool for my left hand.
You're wrong about the keyboard. It's necessary to have a lot of key buttons available for RTS games so that abilities, stances, formations, and moves can be executed efficiently. I haven't played a console RTS, but console RPS use the shoulder buttons on a gamepad to cycle through weapons usually. If I want weapon 9 and I'm at weapon 5, I should be able to jump to weapon 9 without going through weapon 6-8. The lack of competitive RTS on the consoles should indicate that a keyboard and mouse achieves something that's necessary for some genres to thrive.
Rural electrification happened only through government intervention. The free market never stepped up to the plate to provide that infrastructure. Firefighting was socialized as a service because the private for-profit firefighting was a terrible service that often times did not protect their clients against the fire. The socialized health care systems are simply more efficient that the United States health care system.
What is this "Sun workstation" of which you speak? There is no such thing. Sun hasn't made or sold desktop SPARC for a couple of years, now.
I thought it was the amount of registers on the Sun processor. With the amount of registers available, more primitive variables didn't need to be swapped into memory and function calls would need to store the outer scope in memory as frequently.
Relax :-). I ended up enjoying computer science thoroughly and I caught my second wind. I never got explore the wonders of programming languages beyond C when I was physicist, because physics programming is about getting the simulation out and no professor will be happy with their students learning esoteric programming languages. I like that I'm enlightened now about functional programming languages and that I can understand the DOM and RESTful interaction now.
I have several friends who quit after their Masters too and one ended up retraining as a financial mathematician and he has read the textbook you mentioned. Finance isn't high on my priority right now. I just don't care too much in investments and rates of returns right now. I could eventually, but I'm happy as a cell phone application developer right now.
I finished optimistically in my Masters in physics in 2005. I was going to take a few months off before starting my PhD to look for jobs and accept one because I was undecided about doing a PhD. I discovered that no employer was really looking for a physics education and I returned to the PhD program bitter. Being a graduate student eventually ends and ultimately, that education needs to be translated into sustainable work. Otherwise, it's just lost income opportunities by consuming time to get an education. Being able to start a family matters and being able to settle down and buy a house matters. And the people saying that science education is so valuable and so important to do aren't making those sacrifices themselves. They're the ones with their own house and vehicle and starting their family life. I ended up retraining as an accountant but I then realized I was incredibly bored after six months, so I took computer science instead and I discovered I liked it a lot more. And the material is interesting to read even outside of class. And I get job interviews too. I still think it's a challenging market as a programmer in Saskatchewan, but there's still more demand for it than in physics or engineering. Other friends who stuck it out for the PhD are now discovering that things are going awry for them. They can't find jobs and they don't have the income they thought they would. There was an article http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/professionalization-in-academy basically explaining that jobs that are safe are jobs that can't be shipped over the wire. The trades and the health sector seem to fit that category. There just isn't a demand for science and I cringed when I heard that the Liberals have education tax credit plans for university students. it just seems to be flooding the market with more university majors without employer demand for the degree.
Then define what you mean as a superset.
Code does not demonstrate quickness though. The whole point of doing the the work on pen and paper is to be able to recall the solution technique from memory quickly and solve it quickly. The calculator is doing the work for you and speaking as a former physics and mathematics teaching assistant, the calculator robbed people from developing their own understanding and comfort of the problem. The best example I can think of is that if you're not playing around with your own operating system and are always reliant on your children to fix problems, you're never going to be comfortable with the use of the OS.
I agree with this. Speaking as a former physics graduate student that didn't see the light at the end of the tunnel and went back for a computer science degree (which I then later discovered that I enjoyed more), there's paradigms in the computer science world that can and should be used in the physics programming world. a) my physics friend that quit physics from the same university was describing how he and his supervisor would always tag code revisions by renaming files. I then pointed out there's version control tools like Git, SVN, and Mercurial that do just that without the pain. b) Another friend was saying how they target multiple processors on a distributed server farm was to split their code files into multiple code files with the for and while block structures changed such that each compiled code file operates on a different iteration of data . Rather than just using threaded libraries that do the same thing without the compilation inconvenience of splitting the code file. Example just to make it clear for (int i = 0; i 10; i++) { doSomething(); } would become 5 fives of for (int i = 0; i 2; i++) { doSomething(); } for (int i = 2; i 4; i++) { doSomething(); } To be honest. I don't think my physics friend's knew that arguments could be fetched from the command line from the program, so that they could at last launch multiple processes that compute different data ranges without the need for recomputation.
He can tell his daughter to use protection and to avoid partners that do not use protection. I agree that the schools should be honest about sexual education, but him as a parent avoiding sexual education discussion is cowardice on his part.
Seriously, what's wrong with a sexually active girl anyways? if they're using protection and contraceptives, I don't see why the teenagers in small towns shouldn't be allowed sexually active among themselves.
Here's a backup article that supports the claim that the job market prospects in science suck and not worthy of consideration. I regret having taking a physics degree when most employers outside of university don't consider it an asset compared to the business program degrees. http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411562_Salzman_Science.pdf
Are you retarded? Importing nations are the ones that buy raw resources and use it to manufacture the goods to the rest of the world because it's in the exporter's advantage to only sell their resources. A low dollar means you can't buy the fuel you need, the metals, or uranium, to produce goods for your own manufacturing economy. It's not in a superpower's best interest to start selling off it's in own natural resources before everyone else has exhausted theirs.
Well, Chavez is a politician. Astounding as it may seem, he may have had to make a political decision on whether to prosecute the individuals involved in a coup.
Conservatism isn't a philosophy of conservation. It's roots can be traced back to Burke who argued that society shouldn't embrace every new idea being mentioned and should change slowly if at all. He also argued that we should trust in the aristocracy to do it's job and social heirarchy is important to a society. Your examples of what conservatism means isn't actually what conservatism means. You're ignorant of your terminology. Classical liberals would probably favor balanced budgets. I think the environment is something any philosophy could possibly embrace. Lastly, socialists, social democrats, communists, and welfare liberals would probably attempt to give households more leverage over privatized corporations.
Well, for the Christian and Islamic God, yes, absolutely. The Problem of Evil God is defined as 1) all-knowing 2) all-powerful 3) all-good If 1) then God knows about evil If 2) then God has the power to stop evil If 3) then God will prevent evil So evil shouldn't exist but this leads to a contradiction because evil does exist. So either evil doesn't exist and then Christians and Muslims lose the ability to morally judge people, or God's definition is changed from the Christian & Muslim definition. Some people like to launch into a debate claiming that we have free will. But free will contradicts with 1). We can't possibly have free will and yet our actions still be predetermined. This is another paradox with the Christian God.
It was balanced. The units were unique. There existed several strategies for each race and the game involved fighting over limited resources on the low money maps. DetriusXii
Is the existence of evil in a universe created by an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good being. If you say we have free will to choose evil, then that goes against God's all-knowing nature and the ability for Mary and Jesus to always choose good. If you claim evil serves a greater purpose, then you take away the claim that all humans are of infinite value.