Being an undergraduate, I'm wondering - how does one afford to go to Graduate school and quiting their job? Do they go to Graduate School while working? how does this work?
If the three dimensions are length, width, heighth, and the fourth is time -- how do you accurately depict that? What is the 5th dimension? How can these be anything more than an extended 3D object?
I know someone out there knows what's going on, please fill me in?
Thank you, btw. My problem is that I'm coming from a windows environment. Though I have been looking to put linux on my laptop, I haven't made the jump on my desktop yet due to the fact that FPS gaming is still a Windows Function.
Please turn yourself into the local Law Enforcement agency at your earliest convienence. You will be charged with 'sedition', for giving 'aid and comfort to the enemy.'
Kinda scary when free speech turns into that, isn't it?
Quite Insightful. That's what I get for mentioning that I am (or soon to be was) in the Army. I only wish I had chosen the 25B MOS (Computer Systems Analyst) instead of my chosen MOS (13F). Then I would have been able to get my certs through the Army too.
I am one of those young people. I'm finishing up a stint in the Army, and going back to finish my final year of my BS in Computer Information Systems. ( I was mobilized during my senior year of college.)
I firmly believe that there is plenty out there for me -- but not in something like programming, rather I believe my talent lies in being a Systems Analyst for a business, or something both technical and managerial in nature.
Sure, the off shore folks have us beat when it comes to programminng, no doubt about that -- but that's only a problem if you want to be just a programmer.
They still need people to lead and manage these teams of programmers, and perhaps that's where the value of the American IT professional is.
It runs at about 20 FPS at the 'autodetected' level. (For reference, the 'autodetected level is 'high'. I'm pushing alot of polygons, so I'm sure that's why It's not running that well. It scales well though, but you really don't want to sacrifice visual quality in this game.
Oblivion is by far one of the most beautiful games I've ever played. I've never thought about upgrading my gaming rig just for a game, but for Oblivion, I will. I currently have the following.
Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton 333) Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Ati Radeon X850XT 2 Gig PC2700 DDRAM 1x1GB, 2x512GB
I could care less how fast the speed is. 192kpbs is currently how fast the fastest multiplayer game operates. I care about latency. Fix that problem and we'll talk.
Agreed. What's worse is that there's no way of actually knowing how much damage was done. Anyone who knew of the exploit could plant another trojan or backdoor or keylogger on your system, completely undetectable because of the rootkit. Now you have the propensity to lose anything you held deal, to include financial information.
There should be punitive damages, to the tune of $1,000 (the cost of a new PC, roughly) in the very least.
I started out with Java, and wasn't too impressed. After all, what could I do with it? Spend hours building widgets to do things didn't capture my interest, so about 60 hours into the language, I backed out.
So then I went to C++, in hopes of doing more, and was overwhelmed with the amount of possibilities. (The STL is huge, to say the least). I still have those books on my shelf, and while I'd love to take the time to learn more about the language, I don't have the time to spend to devote the next year to becoming even moderately proficient in that language.
Enter Perl. God I love perl. Such a neat little language, and you can do things quickly with it. Want to parse all of the instances of 'anonymous coward' from your daily slashdot discussions? Done. In 10 lines or less. Problem is, making the widgets and stuff still do not interest me, I hate to spend time coding that.
Enter VB. Sure, you pay for an IDE, and you also have to use Windows, but Microsoft has made it easy for the budding programmer to do something. I'm not a programmer because I love to program, I program to do a function, to make some part of my job easier. That's what VB (in all of it's flavors) does for me. VBA? Great for automating the small tasks (and already installed on my work machines) of doing office stuff, like automatically generating and emailing reports. VB.NET? Great for the time constraints of building an application for work.
I tell you all of this to say that VB is an excellent beginning programmers language, and for your non-programmer IT guy, it solves most of the problems that crop up. That's its' function.
Actually, I was replying in an economic sense. Does consuming something create a 'need' for it economically? the Laws of economics agree. If a man buys child porn, then there is a market for such things (the 'fuel'), and the producers will continue to produce. That is the 'fire'.
If you ignore the fact that mass producing of Child porn only fuels the interest for more child porn, adding 'fuel' to their proverbial 'fire'.
COPYING child porn is not the same as CREATING NEW child porn.
I agree with this statement; I'm not sure which hole they pulled this verdict from, but it can't stand on that premise.
It is only illegal to act on it.
Does encouraging an act count? By people downloading Child porn, does it give those that hurt the children more means to make child porn? I'm not trying to make a point with this question, I'm actually asking that question.
Many of today's sex-related laws are based on some twisted idea of morality, and nothing more.
I disagree with the 'nothing more' part; Also the 'twisted' part. It's far to say that the majority of people find the act of murder repugnant, so there's a law against it (not to mention the detrimental effect it has on a society). Also with Child pornography. The act itself screams, "this is wrong", and the majority of people agree with that, so there's a law against it. Keep in mind I only speak of social law, as opposed to economic law, where those with the most money make the rules.
I hope you aren't being serious. You clearly haven't played the mess that is Battlefield 2. To summarize:
They release the game in an extremely buggy state. They then release a patch, announce an expansion, release a patch for the patch (it had a colossal memory leak bug), not release another patch until they release BF2: Special Forces; then the patch they release is simply to make Vanilla BF2 compatible with BF2:SF, to give those taht bought SF a chance to use their toys on the people playing BF2! To add to the mix, they still haven't fixed fundamental flaws in the game, and are planning on releasing two 'booster packs'.
How can we as the American people cope with a President that doesn't even acknowledge that what he's doing is illegial? How can we further cope with a Congress that hasn't already 'stopped the presses' by calling for immediate hearings on the matter? I don't mean hearings next week, or next month. I want hearings now. This is a grave threat to our liberties, and I want it addressed right now.
Oh, and the 'fanboy' contingent that believes that civil liberties must be curtailed in a time of conflict need not reply, because I'm not listening, and I doubt Thomas Jefferson would listen to it either.
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Being an undergraduate, I'm wondering - how does one afford to go to Graduate school and quiting their job? Do they go to Graduate School while working? how does this work?
This, as Adam Sandler would say, is news that would have been better if it had been brought to my attention yesterday!!!!!.
The article from CNN talks about it already whizzing past.
Shaq-Fu for the SNES was by all time accounts the worst videogame name ever. I ate it up. Ah, Youth's indescretions.
I give it a year before it's struck down as unconstitutional.
You know, if a OS wanted to emulate (or be a replacement for) Windows, they should have at least tried to get rid of that damned registry. :-/
If the three dimensions are length, width, heighth, and the fourth is time -- how do you accurately depict that? What is the 5th dimension? How can these be anything more than an extended 3D object? I know someone out there knows what's going on, please fill me in?
Thank you, btw. My problem is that I'm coming from a windows environment. Though I have been looking to put linux on my laptop, I haven't made the jump on my desktop yet due to the fact that FPS gaming is still a Windows Function.
Unfortunately.
Please turn yourself into the local Law Enforcement agency at your earliest convienence. You will be charged with 'sedition', for giving 'aid and comfort to the enemy.'
Kinda scary when free speech turns into that, isn't it?
So how do I learn Vim? Please don't say, 'use it'. I'm wondering if there is a resource for commands ?
Sounds like an malformed SQL statement. You forgot the ;
Quite Insightful. That's what I get for mentioning that I am (or soon to be was) in the Army. I only wish I had chosen the 25B MOS (Computer Systems Analyst) instead of my chosen MOS (13F). Then I would have been able to get my certs through the Army too.
I am one of those young people. I'm finishing up a stint in the Army, and going back to finish my final year of my BS in Computer Information Systems. ( I was mobilized during my senior year of college.)
I firmly believe that there is plenty out there for me -- but not in something like programming, rather I believe my talent lies in being a Systems Analyst for a business, or something both technical and managerial in nature.
Sure, the off shore folks have us beat when it comes to programminng, no doubt about that -- but that's only a problem if you want to be just a programmer.
They still need people to lead and manage these teams of programmers, and perhaps that's where the value of the American IT professional is.
It runs at about 20 FPS at the 'autodetected' level. (For reference, the 'autodetected level is 'high'. I'm pushing alot of polygons, so I'm sure that's why It's not running that well. It scales well though, but you really don't want to sacrifice visual quality in this game.
Oblivion is by far one of the most beautiful games I've ever played. I've never thought about upgrading my gaming rig just for a game, but for Oblivion, I will. I currently have the following.
Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton 333)
Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra
Ati Radeon X850XT
2 Gig PC2700 DDRAM 1x1GB, 2x512GB
I could care less how fast the speed is. 192kpbs is currently how fast the fastest multiplayer game operates. I care about latency. Fix that problem and we'll talk.
Agreed. What's worse is that there's no way of actually knowing how much damage was done. Anyone who knew of the exploit could plant another trojan or backdoor or keylogger on your system, completely undetectable because of the rootkit. Now you have the propensity to lose anything you held deal, to include financial information. There should be punitive damages, to the tune of $1,000 (the cost of a new PC, roughly) in the very least.
VB is a good beginner's language.
I should know.
I started out with Java, and wasn't too impressed. After all, what could I do with it? Spend hours building widgets to do things didn't capture my interest, so about 60 hours into the language, I backed out.
So then I went to C++, in hopes of doing more, and was overwhelmed with the amount of possibilities. (The STL is huge, to say the least). I still have those books on my shelf, and while I'd love to take the time to learn more about the language, I don't have the time to spend to devote the next year to becoming even moderately proficient in that language.
Enter Perl. God I love perl. Such a neat little language, and you can do things quickly with it. Want to parse all of the instances of 'anonymous coward' from your daily slashdot discussions? Done. In 10 lines or less. Problem is, making the widgets and stuff still do not interest me, I hate to spend time coding that.
Enter VB. Sure, you pay for an IDE, and you also have to use Windows, but Microsoft has made it easy for the budding programmer to do something. I'm not a programmer because I love to program, I program to do a function, to make some part of my job easier. That's what VB (in all of it's flavors) does for me. VBA? Great for automating the small tasks (and already installed on my work machines) of doing office stuff, like automatically generating and emailing reports. VB.NET? Great for the time constraints of building an application for work.
I tell you all of this to say that VB is an excellent beginning programmers language, and for your non-programmer IT guy, it solves most of the problems that crop up. That's its' function.
Actually, I was replying in an economic sense. Does consuming something create a 'need' for it economically? the Laws of economics agree. If a man buys child porn, then there is a market for such things (the 'fuel'), and the producers will continue to produce. That is the 'fire'.
I hope you aren't being serious. You clearly haven't played the mess that is Battlefield 2. To summarize:
They release the game in an extremely buggy state. They then release a patch, announce an expansion, release a patch for the patch (it had a colossal memory leak bug), not release another patch until they release BF2: Special Forces; then the patch they release is simply to make Vanilla BF2 compatible with BF2:SF, to give those taht bought SF a chance to use their toys on the people playing BF2! To add to the mix, they still haven't fixed fundamental flaws in the game, and are planning on releasing two 'booster packs'.
These are your 'good business decisions'?
The editor beat all of us to the punch by pre-empting our cries of "Dupe!".
If you use Firefox and NoScript, you can enable scripting for white sites.
I didn't even notice that it wasn't spelled correctly. Thank you for the correction. :-)
Where did I not spell something correctly?
How can we as the American people cope with a President that doesn't even acknowledge that what he's doing is illegial? How can we further cope with a Congress that hasn't already 'stopped the presses' by calling for immediate hearings on the matter? I don't mean hearings next week, or next month. I want hearings now. This is a grave threat to our liberties, and I want it addressed right now.
Of course, this President speaks about 'freedom', but does 'freedom' include not being able to openly discuss laws and policies?
Oh, and the 'fanboy' contingent that believes that civil liberties must be curtailed in a time of conflict need not reply, because I'm not listening, and I doubt Thomas Jefferson would listen to it either.