I'm a forty-three year old who buys 2-3 games a month and rarely, if ever, goes to a retail establishment because they are full of snot-nosed kids and moronic employees. Why go to Gamestop when I can get them delivered to my house with Amazon, or through Steam?
Exactly. What made "F.E.A.R." great at this wasn't the "startle" moments, or the gore, but scenes that created an air of foreboding. For instance, you walk down a dark hallway and see a vague shape jump around the corner. Go around the corner, and there's nothing there. *That* is what creates the feeling of impending doom, not the fifteenth iteration of "turn lights off, open up closet behind player containing monsters".
I stopped playing Doom 3 when I realized that I had developed an instinctual tick of turning around and firing every time the lights went out.
Templates themselves take a long time to master. Most professional programmers with years of experience don't know most of the ins and outs of templates.
C++ is a minefield of confusing syntax and strange side-features. Lots of languages can be learned in two weeks, but C++ is not one of them. There's all sorts of "fun" issues (virtual destructors. Exceptions in constructors. etc.) that have to be learned that just have no analogs in languages like Java or Python, which can be learned in a couple weeks.
Whether or not this reflects poorly on the language is left as a problem for the reader.
I've gone overseas three times in the last three years, and the customs people never even give me a second glance. Just be white, be polite, look "normal" and as long as you aren't coming from somewhere that traffics in "interesting" things, they will spend all of fifteen seconds looking you over.
That's a pretty ridiculous theory. My wife has a four year old iPod. It's wildly obsolete. No color. No video. A whopping 4 gb of space. Much larger than any current iPod.
I have an Eee. The answer: not very well. Xandros is good as long as you spend a lot of time removing all the crap to make it "friendly". In my mind, it takes a few days of futzing to get it into reasonable shape. (You have to add "advanced mode", which is unfortunately not a menu option. You have to add extra repositories. You have to adjust a number of applications to better handle the smaller screen. Look for the Eee wiki.) My impression is that they designed the UI for novice users, but the only people who are actually buying them are people who know how to futz with them.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu seems to have problems with the wireless on the Eee.
It depends. I've tried large-format books with source code and while the text was legible, the code was hard to read unless I put it in landscape mode.
You don't need to convert PDFs for the Sony eReader. I've read PDFs on my PRS-505 model eReader simply by dragging them to the/database/media/books directory on the device.
The original librie did not support PDF, but the current eReader does.
You can hook up the eReader to a Mac or a linux box. It appears as a drive. Copy any pdf or lrf file to the/database/media/books directory. Unmount the drive, turn on the reader and the books will be available for reading.
There's a number of sources of free lrf files, and lots of sources of free pdf files. The only thing that requires Windows is their store.
Some guys lent a whole bunch of money to deadbeats thinking that they make a fortune on the interest. When it turned out that the deadbeats couldn't repay they suddenly realized that they lent more money than they actually had! Now they want us to fill their wallets back up so they can keep lending.
Would it be your contention that there was absolutely no difference between the Bush administration, the Clinton administration and the Reagan administration? In other words, would you claim that the US would have done the exact same things, and had the exact same experience in regards to things like jobs, the economy, and world affairs if you'd shuffled those three administrations around in time?
During a pandemic, the most important thing is for people to stay home and avoid physical contact with other people, including extended family and friends.
What's they best way to maintain some semblance of a relationship with someone without physical contact? These days, it is the Internet.
The basic failing of the ad is that the Apple ads don't say "Macs are for cool people, PCs are for dorks". The Apple ads say "Macs are cool, PCs are dorks". That's a every different thing. Even complete dorks want cool toys, not clunky toys.
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I'm a forty-three year old who buys 2-3 games a month and rarely, if ever, goes to a retail establishment because they are full of snot-nosed kids and moronic employees. Why go to Gamestop when I can get them delivered to my house with Amazon, or through Steam?
Because the only open source project I ever worked on was something I started when I had six weeks of unemployed time to fill.
No one died over "piss christ". There were no bombings when "The Last Temptation of Christ" was shown.
Exactly. What made "F.E.A.R." great at this wasn't the "startle" moments, or the gore, but scenes that created an air of foreboding. For instance, you walk down a dark hallway and see a vague shape jump around the corner. Go around the corner, and there's nothing there. *That* is what creates the feeling of impending doom, not the fifteenth iteration of "turn lights off, open up closet behind player containing monsters".
I stopped playing Doom 3 when I realized that I had developed an instinctual tick of turning around and firing every time the lights went out.
Templates themselves take a long time to master. Most professional programmers with years of experience don't know most of the ins and outs of templates.
C++ is a minefield of confusing syntax and strange side-features. Lots of languages can be learned in two weeks, but C++ is not one of them. There's all sorts of "fun" issues (virtual destructors. Exceptions in constructors. etc.) that have to be learned that just have no analogs in languages like Java or Python, which can be learned in a couple weeks.
Whether or not this reflects poorly on the language is left as a problem for the reader.
Anyone who says they learned C++ in a fortnight is lying.
I've gone overseas three times in the last three years, and the customs people never even give me a second glance. Just be white, be polite, look "normal" and as long as you aren't coming from somewhere that traffics in "interesting" things, they will spend all of fifteen seconds looking you over.
That's a pretty ridiculous theory. My wife has a four year old iPod. It's wildly obsolete. No color. No video. A whopping 4 gb of space. Much larger than any current iPod.
The battery holds a charge just fine.
Metal Gear Solid 4 is an awesome nine hour miniseries with a few gaming sections in the breaks.
I have an Eee. The answer: not very well. Xandros is good as long as you spend a lot of time removing all the crap to make it "friendly". In my mind, it takes a few days of futzing to get it into reasonable shape. (You have to add "advanced mode", which is unfortunately not a menu option. You have to add extra repositories. You have to adjust a number of applications to better handle the smaller screen. Look for the Eee wiki.) My impression is that they designed the UI for novice users, but the only people who are actually buying them are people who know how to futz with them.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu seems to have problems with the wireless on the Eee.
In other words, 95% of the computing population.
Until a distro works for them, Linux will have negligible market share.
Non-competes are not valid in some US states. (California in particular.) Get a lawyer and see if the non-compete clause is anything but hot air.
Also, don't be afraid to negotiate. If the non-compete is an issue for them, tell them. Maybe you can get it removed.
It depends. I've tried large-format books with source code and while the text was legible, the code was hard to read unless I put it in landscape mode.
You don't need to convert PDFs for the Sony eReader. I've read PDFs on my PRS-505 model eReader simply by dragging them to the /database/media/books directory on the device.
The original librie did not support PDF, but the current eReader does.
You can hook up the eReader to a Mac or a linux box. It appears as a drive. Copy any pdf or lrf file to the /database/media/books directory. Unmount the drive, turn on the reader and the books will be available for reading.
There's a number of sources of free lrf files, and lots of sources of free pdf files. The only thing that requires Windows is their store.
Some guys lent a whole bunch of money to deadbeats thinking that they make a fortune on the interest. When it turned out that the deadbeats couldn't repay they suddenly realized that they lent more money than they actually had! Now they want us to fill their wallets back up so they can keep lending.
This is outdated. It should read:
Republicans want into your wallet for war funds. Democrats want into your wallet for medical care.
Hah! Yes, it was! It was when I wrote to tell her how boneheaded the Patriot Act was!
At least Boxer was good enough to respond with "I am sorry you disagree, but here's why I support it".
I once sent my senator a letter that said, paraphrased:
I got a response that said, paraphrased:
If all religious people were as wacked out as Thompson, civilization would have collapsed millenia ago.
apt-get install firefox.
I'm sure they could make a pointy-clicky version of apt for Windows if they really wanted to.
Would it be your contention that there was absolutely no difference between the Bush administration, the Clinton administration and the Reagan administration? In other words, would you claim that the US would have done the exact same things, and had the exact same experience in regards to things like jobs, the economy, and world affairs if you'd shuffled those three administrations around in time?
So Apple is conducting felony fraud, then? (Given that they do the exact same thing.)
During a pandemic, the most important thing is for people to stay home and avoid physical contact with other people, including extended family and friends.
What's they best way to maintain some semblance of a relationship with someone without physical contact? These days, it is the Internet.
The basic failing of the ad is that the Apple ads don't say "Macs are for cool people, PCs are for dorks". The Apple ads say "Macs are cool, PCs are dorks". That's a every different thing. Even complete dorks want cool toys, not clunky toys.