In Missouri:
Pass a multiple choice theory test that only covers the most basic driving rules. The book that covers all the questions is a small format paperback under 100 pages long. Compared to a european test, it's a joke.
Pass a vision+traffic signal identification test. The test doesn't even cover all signals: In Missouri, anything past yield, stop and pedestrian crossing has text underneath describing the signal. Compared to the 100+ hierogliphics in Spain, it's a piece of cake.
Practical test. You drive for about 5 minutes in a suburban area almost completely devoid of traffic. The end of the test involves parallel parking between two posts, far enough away to park a pick-up truck with ease. If you bring a MX-5, a Z4, or an Elise, the space will be double the length of the car. The biggest challenge in the test is to make sure the examiner 'registers' your stops in stop signs. They key is to brake hard enough that the examiner is thrust forward on every stop sign. On the route we took, there were 15 stop signs:)
So passing the test in the first try is not just very common, it's expected from anyone with some motor skills.
You can tell them Advance Wars is brilliant but all people see is cartoony graphics and ask how come this costs the same as that full 3D PSP game. To be fair how do you explain that GTA Liberty City costs the same?
GTA Liberty City has a fraction of the play value that Advance Wars has; by that standard, GTA should cost significantly less than AW./BLOCKQUOTE
That beside the fact that Liberty city stories is almost $50 at most retailers, while Advance Wars DS is $35.
And that XBOX list is considering games like Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and X Men Legends as RPGs. The XBOX has a few good RPGs, but almost every single one of them is available in the PC, like Knights of the Old Republic, Fable and Morrowind.
You must have a whole lot of dust in your room, or your Gamecube's fan must be defective. I bought my GCN at launch, my PS2 about one year after launch, and my XBOX when they started the Jet Set Radio/Sega Rally bundle. The XBOX is by far the loudest of the three. The PS2 is much quieter, and the GCN is even harder to hear. It is loud while reading dirty disks though, or when I cause the well know Metroid Prime crash.
I'd not pick any of those two before Effective C++, More Effective C++, Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms or The C++ Programming language. After you've programmed in C++ for six months, all the introductory stuff from the books you mentioned becomes a waste of paper, while the books I listed are still useful to a professional programmer.
Also, read this excerpt of the alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ FAQ:
6: Why do many experts not think very highly of Herbert Schildt's
books?
A good answer to this question could fill a book by itself. While
no book is perfect, Schildt's books, in the opinion of many
gurus, seem to positively aim to mislead learners and encourage
bad habits. Schildt's beautifully clear writing style only makes
things worse by causing many "satisfied" learners to recommend his
books to other learners.
Do take a look at the following scathing articles before deciding
to buy a Schildt text.
The above reviews are admittedly based on two of Schildt's older
books. However, the language they describe has not changed in the
intervening period, and several books written at around the same
time remain highly regarded.
The following humorous post also illustrates the general feeling
towards Schildt and his books.
Can I hear a "Hell Yea!" for a massively multiplayer Zelda?
Hell No. It'd be a wonderful way for Nintendo to run one of their core franchises into the ground. Zelda is all about being the hero, exploring and saving the world. Nintendo will probably change many of the classic Zelda machanics, but there really isn't any way of keeping that same sense of wonder and fight against evil when there are another twenty thousand people in your server trying to do the same thing. Massively multiplayer games are exactly the opposite of what Zelda is about: Leveling up, competing with other players, making the most profit/getting the most loot. A zelda MMORPG would alienate most of the current player base, while trying to attract people that currently don't give a rat's ass about Nintendo and its properties. Great way to shoot yourself in the foot.
There's also the fact that MMRPGs are not sustainable without getting monthly revenue through fees or ads, while Iwata keeps saying that they want users to play online for free, without having to suffer through ads. Their player base just won't go through with it. How are they going to keep a profitable MMO game if they only get money when the game is purchased? Until there's a good business model for this that wont damage their brands, Nintendo will just not make a MMO game. The closest thing the'll do is what they are doing with Animal Crossing. Other companies would have made it a MMORPG, but Nintendo's vision was far, far, different.
That's the profit margin you'll see on furniture, but it's pretty far from the profit margins you get on consoles and games. The store's profit on a console is probably under $20 per console. %50 is what stores get when they sell a used console.
At launch, the profitable items are the accessories. Why do you think stores try to push accessories so much?
Sure, redundant if you think that a directional pad and 8 buttons is a better input device than a touchscreen. The problem is that, outside of some games, it just isn't. You might as well claim that you don't want a modern computer because you can do the same things with an Atari 2600.
Remember, the average person had difficulty setting their VCR's clock do you think they feel confortable setting up a wireless network or running cable through their house?
Most users are not willing to pay for online play, and that's where I think Microsoft is wrong. Most people won't pay every month for something that they use a couple of hours a week, and that's how much the average console owner spends using a console. Even a serious gamer like me would have trouble justifying paying a montly/yearly fee to each console manufacturer to be able to play online. Free online gaming is a good way of making me buy games for your console. Making me pay a subscription while other consoles let me play online for free is a great way of making sure I buy more games for the other consoles.
And, for extra detail, 270 North will be jammed as you get close to 170, and the southbound jam starts between Dorsett and 40, depending on the time of the day and the weather conditions. Outside of a few accidents here and there, St louis traffic is very predictable.
Besides, hasn't some TV station had installed sensors all over the metro area anyway? What a waste.
Many countries out there are majoritarily christian, but they don't seem to have the American fixation with the Bible. The main reason for this is that most versions of christianity that can be found outside the US teach that you have to read the Bible understanding its historical context. No modern catholic priest will tell you that Earth was created in seven days or that Moses opened the Red Sea. Those same priests will also tell you about the process through which we ended up with only 4 Gospels, and how the modern Bible was standardized. If even old, conservatite catholic church takes the Bible as an infallible document, why should anyone?
The Bible is a dangerous book, but only for people that take it literally, thinking of it as an infallible source of knowledge. It just happens that America has more than its fair share of ignorants that refuse to understand history.
Tekken style? With two controllers, it's pretty easy to do left/right punches/kicks. Instead of a million button combinations, combine different hand movements. IMO, it could be more confortable than a normal PS2 controller, where the button combinations are so complicated than the 'right way' of using the controller is making it sit on your lap, and use at least two fingers to hit the 4 face buttons.
Madden? there are a million things you an do with the motion sensor other than jump and juke. From selecting hot routes to selecting which receiver to pass to or doing pump fakes. All you need is a little imagination.
Imagine a baseball game where, instead of selecting from a predefined set of pitches, you can fine tune your throws by giving spin to the controller. Beats the hell out of anything done to date.
Besides, how do you know how akward it's going to be without holding it? Nintendo understands ergonomics as well as anyone else in the business. Make the cord longer than in the prototype, put some weight to the nunchaku attachment, and I really don't see where the akwardnes could be. Maybe you think it'd be akward because you've never used anything quite like it before?
Don't be so close minded and wait until you can actually try it out in a store.
A crafty employer would make the 'normal' document match the draconian one by adding crap to it, making the draconian document appear to be the original. Who'd have to explain things then?
It changes heavily by state. Most grocery shops in California seem to do what you describe. You just forgot to say you don't really need to give a name or address to sign up for the club card, so you could get a new card every day if you want to. On the other hand, I've yet to see a grocery chain in Missouri with a 'club price'.
I've seen defense contractors hiring foreign engineers. They won't hire them straight out of school like they do with Americans, but any foreign, experienced engineer that has done any research applicable to a defense project will get hired. Defense companies will hire a 'star' regardless of their nationality, but won't pay for a foreign grunt.
Imagine that a program is misbehaving for some reason, and you decide that you want add a log statement whenever you enter and exist every function. The problemis, the original programmer was a slacker, and you really don't have much of a loggins system built in. You could either spend minutes/hours/days changing the code by hand, or you can create an aspect that attaches itself to all of the methods on a package/namespace, and writes the logging you want. You go froma few hundred/thousand lines to about 5.
Why can't it all be XML based where you just design your GUI elements in document form and load it in.
It can be done, and it is done by those doing Swing work effectively. With tools like JFormDesigner, you can just create resources that are loaded in real time by your swing app. Add a binding framework, and building GUIs in Java becomes as easy as making GUIs in pretty much any other language.
Nope, on any quality hashing algorithm, a change in 1 byte in the original file will generate a vastly different result. This makes an 'almost perfect' individual be very, very different from a perfect individual. This makes Genetic algorithms completely unsuitable for the task: They are probably worse than just brute forcing through the entire population.
Just try to MD5 2 files that only differ in 3 bytes from each other and see what I mean.
Some would say that such a compulsory license amounts to the EU stealing MSFT's intellectual property. Bullshit! Do you believe that making them pay a fine is stealing their money? You can oppose the whole concept of antitrust regulation on Libertarian grounds, but that battle was fought and lost, the argument is over, and antitrust is settled law. The EU has the right to set antitrust rules and punish the violators
It is 'stealing' their intellectual property. The only problem is that IP is an artificial construct that can be taken away. IP is just a social contract: Society enforces Pantents and Copyrights as far as your use of your rights helps better society in some way. If at any point you break the social contract by abusing your rights, all that the government has to do is stop enforcing IP laws as far as a certain company's IP is concerned. Just like in most european countries the government can expropiate land for a bargain price to build a highway, your IP can be taken away. The difference is you can still use your network standards after you've lost your property, so AFAIK, the government won't pay you a dime.
Did you ever wonder why Brazil has ignored pharmaceutical patents for the last 20 years? What about Chinese and Japanese cloning of American products on the 80s? Governments do it because they can.
The first game of the series was Soul Edge/Soul Blade, that came out in the Arcades and was ported to Playstation. Then came Soul Calibur, as in Excalibur, for the Dreamcast. Soul Calibur 2 came out for GCN, PS2 and XBOX. None of the games is called Soul CalibEr.
caliber:
1. Abbr. cal.
1. The diameter of the inside of a round cylinder, such as a tube.
2. The diameter of the bore of a firearm, usually shown in hundredths or thousandths of an inch and expressed in writing or print in terms of a decimal fraction:.45 caliber.
3. The diameter of a large projectile, such as an artillery shell, measured in millimeters or in inches.
Do not accept every suggestion your spellchecker makes. Sometimes it is wrong.
I don't think the parent was very informative. Late playstations are about as durable as any console out there. Early playstations, on the other hand, broke early and often. The same thing, to a smaller degree, can be said about PS2s. Sony just keeps releasing new versions of the hardware every 6 to 12 months.
If your used playstation was not one of the first two models, it will probably last as much as a decent CD player. Just don't buy a used console that was originally bought at launch.
Compare Hasbro's behavior on this matter to what german boardgame companies do about online boardgames. Websites likeBSWlet you play dozens of boardgames, using the original rules and art, at no cost and without any ads. Why? playing boardgames online is a poor subsitute to playing face to face. Many people, me included, like to visit websites like this to try the games out. If the game is any good, I buy the game to play at social gatherings with my friends. Who is not going to buy a scrabble board because you can play online?
Some companies, like Days of Wonder, let you play their games for free in their own website!. Hasbro should learn from this, and enter into a license agreement with eScrabble. For example, let the site use the trademark in exchange of having eScrabble link promintently to the Hasbro online store, where users could by a RL version of Scrabble. This kind of agreements are not unheard of, and only help both parties.
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In Missouri: Pass a multiple choice theory test that only covers the most basic driving rules. The book that covers all the questions is a small format paperback under 100 pages long. Compared to a european test, it's a joke. Pass a vision+traffic signal identification test. The test doesn't even cover all signals: In Missouri, anything past yield, stop and pedestrian crossing has text underneath describing the signal. Compared to the 100+ hierogliphics in Spain, it's a piece of cake. Practical test. You drive for about 5 minutes in a suburban area almost completely devoid of traffic. The end of the test involves parallel parking between two posts, far enough away to park a pick-up truck with ease. If you bring a MX-5, a Z4, or an Elise, the space will be double the length of the car. The biggest challenge in the test is to make sure the examiner 'registers' your stops in stop signs. They key is to brake hard enough that the examiner is thrust forward on every stop sign. On the route we took, there were 15 stop signs :)
So passing the test in the first try is not just very common, it's expected from anyone with some motor skills.
And that XBOX list is considering games like Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and X Men Legends as RPGs. The XBOX has a few good RPGs, but almost every single one of them is available in the PC, like Knights of the Old Republic, Fable and Morrowind.
You must have a whole lot of dust in your room, or your Gamecube's fan must be defective. I bought my GCN at launch, my PS2 about one year after launch, and my XBOX when they started the Jet Set Radio/Sega Rally bundle. The XBOX is by far the loudest of the three. The PS2 is much quieter, and the GCN is even harder to hear. It is loud while reading dirty disks though, or when I cause the well know Metroid Prime crash.
Also, read this excerpt of the alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ FAQ:
There's also the fact that MMRPGs are not sustainable without getting monthly revenue through fees or ads, while Iwata keeps saying that they want users to play online for free, without having to suffer through ads. Their player base just won't go through with it. How are they going to keep a profitable MMO game if they only get money when the game is purchased? Until there's a good business model for this that wont damage their brands, Nintendo will just not make a MMO game. The closest thing the'll do is what they are doing with Animal Crossing. Other companies would have made it a MMORPG, but Nintendo's vision was far, far, different.
At launch, the profitable items are the accessories. Why do you think stores try to push accessories so much?
Sure, redundant if you think that a directional pad and 8 buttons is a better input device than a touchscreen. The problem is that, outside of some games, it just isn't. You might as well claim that you don't want a modern computer because you can do the same things with an Atari 2600.
Well, Nintendo seems to think so.
Most users are not willing to pay for online play, and that's where I think Microsoft is wrong. Most people won't pay every month for something that they use a couple of hours a week, and that's how much the average console owner spends using a console. Even a serious gamer like me would have trouble justifying paying a montly/yearly fee to each console manufacturer to be able to play online. Free online gaming is a good way of making me buy games for your console. Making me pay a subscription while other consoles let me play online for free is a great way of making sure I buy more games for the other consoles.
And, for extra detail, 270 North will be jammed as you get close to 170, and the southbound jam starts between Dorsett and 40, depending on the time of the day and the weather conditions. Outside of a few accidents here and there, St louis traffic is very predictable.
Besides, hasn't some TV station had installed sensors all over the metro area anyway? What a waste.
Many countries out there are majoritarily christian, but they don't seem to have the American fixation with the Bible. The main reason for this is that most versions of christianity that can be found outside the US teach that you have to read the Bible understanding its historical context. No modern catholic priest will tell you that Earth was created in seven days or that Moses opened the Red Sea. Those same priests will also tell you about the process through which we ended up with only 4 Gospels, and how the modern Bible was standardized. If even old, conservatite catholic church takes the Bible as an infallible document, why should anyone?
The Bible is a dangerous book, but only for people that take it literally, thinking of it as an infallible source of knowledge. It just happens that America has more than its fair share of ignorants that refuse to understand history.
Tekken style? With two controllers, it's pretty easy to do left/right punches/kicks. Instead of a million button combinations, combine different hand movements. IMO, it could be more confortable than a normal PS2 controller, where the button combinations are so complicated than the 'right way' of using the controller is making it sit on your lap, and use at least two fingers to hit the 4 face buttons. Madden? there are a million things you an do with the motion sensor other than jump and juke. From selecting hot routes to selecting which receiver to pass to or doing pump fakes. All you need is a little imagination. Imagine a baseball game where, instead of selecting from a predefined set of pitches, you can fine tune your throws by giving spin to the controller. Beats the hell out of anything done to date. Besides, how do you know how akward it's going to be without holding it? Nintendo understands ergonomics as well as anyone else in the business. Make the cord longer than in the prototype, put some weight to the nunchaku attachment, and I really don't see where the akwardnes could be. Maybe you think it'd be akward because you've never used anything quite like it before? Don't be so close minded and wait until you can actually try it out in a store.
A crafty employer would make the 'normal' document match the draconian one by adding crap to it, making the draconian document appear to be the original. Who'd have to explain things then?
It changes heavily by state. Most grocery shops in California seem to do what you describe. You just forgot to say you don't really need to give a name or address to sign up for the club card, so you could get a new card every day if you want to. On the other hand, I've yet to see a grocery chain in Missouri with a 'club price'.
I've seen defense contractors hiring foreign engineers. They won't hire them straight out of school like they do with Americans, but any foreign, experienced engineer that has done any research applicable to a defense project will get hired. Defense companies will hire a 'star' regardless of their nationality, but won't pay for a foreign grunt.
Why not there screenshots, taken from an E3 preview in 1998? The article has a Duke Nukem Forever screenshot too!
Sure, but it only works on MySQL. If you're using anything else, you are out of luck.
Imagine that a program is misbehaving for some reason, and you decide that you want add a log statement whenever you enter and exist every function. The problemis, the original programmer was a slacker, and you really don't have much of a loggins system built in. You could either spend minutes/hours/days changing the code by hand, or you can create an aspect that attaches itself to all of the methods on a package/namespace, and writes the logging you want. You go froma few hundred/thousand lines to about 5.
It can be done, and it is done by those doing Swing work effectively. With tools like JFormDesigner, you can just create resources that are loaded in real time by your swing app. Add a binding framework, and building GUIs in Java becomes as easy as making GUIs in pretty much any other language.
Nope, on any quality hashing algorithm, a change in 1 byte in the original file will generate a vastly different result. This makes an 'almost perfect' individual be very, very different from a perfect individual. This makes Genetic algorithms completely unsuitable for the task: They are probably worse than just brute forcing through the entire population. Just try to MD5 2 files that only differ in 3 bytes from each other and see what I mean.
It is 'stealing' their intellectual property. The only problem is that IP is an artificial construct that can be taken away. IP is just a social contract: Society enforces Pantents and Copyrights as far as your use of your rights helps better society in some way. If at any point you break the social contract by abusing your rights, all that the government has to do is stop enforcing IP laws as far as a certain company's IP is concerned. Just like in most european countries the government can expropiate land for a bargain price to build a highway, your IP can be taken away. The difference is you can still use your network standards after you've lost your property, so AFAIK, the government won't pay you a dime.
Did you ever wonder why Brazil has ignored pharmaceutical patents for the last 20 years? What about Chinese and Japanese cloning of American products on the 80s? Governments do it because they can.
Don't worry. Only 1 in 10 people has an internet connection, so only 15 people in your company could receive spam.
Besides, don't you feel lucky for being one of the two people in your floor with an internet connection?
The first game of the series was Soul Edge/Soul Blade, that came out in the Arcades and was ported to Playstation. Then came Soul Calibur, as in Excalibur, for the Dreamcast. Soul Calibur 2 came out for GCN, PS2 and XBOX. None of the games is called Soul CalibEr.
caliber:
1. Abbr. cal.
1. The diameter of the inside of a round cylinder, such as a tube.
2. The diameter of the bore of a firearm, usually shown in hundredths or thousandths of an inch and expressed in writing or print in terms of a decimal fraction:.45 caliber.
3. The diameter of a large projectile, such as an artillery shell, measured in millimeters or in inches.
Do not accept every suggestion your spellchecker makes. Sometimes it is wrong.
I don't think the parent was very informative. Late playstations are about as durable as any console out there. Early playstations, on the other hand, broke early and often. The same thing, to a smaller degree, can be said about PS2s. Sony just keeps releasing new versions of the hardware every 6 to 12 months.
If your used playstation was not one of the first two models, it will probably last as much as a decent CD player. Just don't buy a used console that was originally bought at launch.
Compare Hasbro's behavior on this matter to what german boardgame companies do about online boardgames. Websites likeBSWlet you play dozens of boardgames, using the original rules and art, at no cost and without any ads. Why? playing boardgames online is a poor subsitute to playing face to face. Many people, me included, like to visit websites like this to try the games out. If the game is any good, I buy the game to play at social gatherings with my friends. Who is not going to buy a scrabble board because you can play online?
Some companies, like Days of Wonder, let you play their games for free in their own website!. Hasbro should learn from this, and enter into a license agreement with eScrabble. For example, let the site use the trademark in exchange of having eScrabble link promintently to the Hasbro online store, where users could by a RL version of Scrabble. This kind of agreements are not unheard of, and only help both parties.