What particular gains are there from dynamic typing? I looked it up and it looks interesting, but since my "productivity" goes down in weakly typed languages I'm not immediately convinced.
Ah, but just because you can discuss features of the book, does not necessitate that there was any deeper significance (beyond that which can be found in any book).
You are right having checked, in the Aeneid they encountered the Cyclops but the story did not go the same way (I always mentally group the two together since the Aeneid is not far from a translation of the Odyssey).
But as for the rest -- Spot's First Word is a story of self-discovery to you presumably? It all depends how far down you term the analysis to be bullshit.
Depends on the type of game of course... I don't care how good the story is in C&C Generals, I still tried my best to skip every movie and cutscene 'cos all I wanted to do was play. Whereas Deus Ex, I was pretty involved in the plot, and even more so in FFVII. It's not necessarily the genre though -- I actually followed what was going on in Half-Life, whereas Doom I completely ignored the "plot" and in Serious Sam as well, because those games are all about the action, plot is irrelevant.
Of course Tolkien intended readers to "read deeply" into his books. They are not "light reading" or pulp, they are carefully crafted retellings of heroic myths which can be interpreted a myriad of ways. The whole point of myth is for people to "read deeply" into it.
I would agree with the original poster that there isn't anything to read into Tolkien's work. He wrote a good yarn, but it had no deeper symbolism or significance. I always view it as an example of a book free of all this literature-derived "deeper meaning" stuff, but one that is still eminently enjoyable.
Also, I would dispute that the point of myths is reading deeper. Sure, Icarus shouldn't have flown too close to the sun, but Theseus defeating the minotaur doesn't have much significance past explaining how to get out of mazes. Ulysses/Aeneas hiding under the sheep to escape the Cyclops is a tale of daring-do, not a deeper symbolic allegory.
The key would indeed seem to be to compete on quality not price. Pretty much any job can be done by people cheaper in 3rd world countries, to really put the better education offered by some western universities (don't want to offend anyone here, but that seems to be the accepted view) to use, people must do cleverer jobs to stay in work.
I did that exact thing actually, aliased rm -i to del. Then found I never used it, cos hell - I dont want to have to press y all the time, and I usually type the right thing... Luckily I haven't caused much damage yet:)
If I recall correctly (probability low, as it's late at night), every celebrity was within six steps of Kevin Bacon, while the play/film Six Degrees of Separation claimed that any two people on the planet were only six connections away from each other.
It wasn't that long ago that the 128-bit encryption version of Internet Explorer couldn't be downloaded by anyone outside the US (even people in countries such as the UK) because that key length was longer than US export laws allowed at that time
I saw a good point the other day that US export laws on cryptography were fairly stupid when you consider that other countries have the skills/intelligence to develop strong cryptography outside the US in the first place. For example, RSA was originally developed in the UK.
I feel like going for a troll, so here it is. The general accepted currency abbreviation for the UK is GBP (Great British Pounds) not UKP, which I have never seen before.
I think that in this case the patent is perfectly fair, and that TiVo are right to do that they do. But keeping up a recent habit of mine, you say:
The fact that it seems obvious and trivial now is a testament to how DVR's have changed our lives
which makes me ask - what is TiVo take-up like in other countries besides the US? (I'm guessing by your comment its hot stuff over there). Here in the UK TiVo is not used particularly much and as far as I know Sky's equivalent isn't either (yet, anyway). Anyone able to say about the rest of the world?
I think that he might mean the four horsemen according to the media, but I wouldn't want to put words in his mouth. He doesn't come across as being pro-porn though..
As others are sure to point out, a few years ago Microsoft wouldn't have bothered saying anything at all about Linux, then they dismissed it, and now they are trying to produce evidence against it. So clearly they are becoming more and more worried by the competition, although interestingly their advertising is all aimed at the server market, they are not yet mentioning Linux on the desktop. Is this to do with just where its been hurting them so far or is this indicative that they are not worried by Linux on the desktop just yet?
In my company, where the projects tend to involve very small teams (1-5), you can pretty much choose to do what you want as long as the result is what is needed. So some people use XP, some people do iterative stuff, some people plan it all out, etc.
There is craziness like this in the UK too, just that the numbers aren't as large;) Funding is based on parental income as a basis of how much they are likely to put in. If you are straight from school (ie a dependent of your parents), your own wages are not taken into account, though savings are.
This leads to odd disparities like people with separated parents being allowed the full loan amount and then help from both of them, and students from rich families getting minimum from the state and then nothing from their parents, who don't see why they should have to contribute anything.
There are also a few horror stories of parents just taking the student loan from the child for their own purposes, but I don't know if they are true.
Even in the UK though, where banks will throw (loaned) money at students, it would be pretty tricky to find creditors who would allow to run up debts much past 20 thousand (pounds). I personally owe 9 grand, which is on the lighter side of average.
It was also interesting that unemployment is higher in Canada and that he chose to ask the young Canadian kids about the price of healthcare. I'm not saying Americans are shooting each other up over healthcare, but that it is a sign of the different cultures.
Direct academic training for entering the IT world is a total waste, and always has been so, even when the economy did not suck.
You have been modded up and lots of people are agreeing.. but I disagree. Having recently finished a Computer Science degree and started work, there is no way I would have hired myself before uni, the degree really does make a difference. For me personally as well as on my CV (I would not have got my current job without a degree or possibly 10+ years in the industry to make up for the lack of one). Different strokes for different folks but IT degrees are not a total waste.
This is sort of off-topic but can anyone explain to me how this works in the US? In the UK students are poor as anything but theoretically can get enough (loaned) from the state to survive. Is it much worse in the US?
I think that the stumbling block for open source gaming is more likely to be the organisation. To gather together lots of programmers, designers, artists, level makers, sound engineers etc into one vision and make them see it through without pay is quite a challenge. That's why so many independent games revolve around simple ideas in my opinion; I doubt we will see an open source Deus Ex/Final Fantasy for a while to come.
Clearly music must affect different people in different ways - I dont even remember it having music. Having said that, I usually turn it off in games as I assume it will repeat so much that it will get on my nerves.
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Brilliant idea! Best way to show the RIAA what little powers they have, someone impersonate them and steal profits from shops!
I know I'll get modded redundant if anything, but.. you're right!
Would it have really been too hard to define CES and COMDEX in the article header?
What particular gains are there from dynamic typing? I looked it up and it looks interesting, but since my "productivity" goes down in weakly typed languages I'm not immediately convinced.
Ah, but just because you can discuss features of the book, does not necessitate that there was any deeper significance (beyond that which can be found in any book).
But as for the rest -- Spot's First Word is a story of self-discovery to you presumably? It all depends how far down you term the analysis to be bullshit.
Depends on the type of game of course... I don't care how good the story is in C&C Generals, I still tried my best to skip every movie and cutscene 'cos all I wanted to do was play. Whereas Deus Ex, I was pretty involved in the plot, and even more so in FFVII. It's not necessarily the genre though -- I actually followed what was going on in Half-Life, whereas Doom I completely ignored the "plot" and in Serious Sam as well, because those games are all about the action, plot is irrelevant.
I would agree with the original poster that there isn't anything to read into Tolkien's work. He wrote a good yarn, but it had no deeper symbolism or significance. I always view it as an example of a book free of all this literature-derived "deeper meaning" stuff, but one that is still eminently enjoyable.
Also, I would dispute that the point of myths is reading deeper. Sure, Icarus shouldn't have flown too close to the sun, but Theseus defeating the minotaur doesn't have much significance past explaining how to get out of mazes. Ulysses/Aeneas hiding under the sheep to escape the Cyclops is a tale of daring-do, not a deeper symbolic allegory.
The key would indeed seem to be to compete on quality not price. Pretty much any job can be done by people cheaper in 3rd world countries, to really put the better education offered by some western universities (don't want to offend anyone here, but that seems to be the accepted view) to use, people must do cleverer jobs to stay in work.
I did that exact thing actually, aliased rm -i to del. Then found I never used it, cos hell - I dont want to have to press y all the time, and I usually type the right thing... Luckily I haven't caused much damage yet :)
If I recall correctly (probability low, as it's late at night), every celebrity was within six steps of Kevin Bacon, while the play/film Six Degrees of Separation claimed that any two people on the planet were only six connections away from each other.
I saw a good point the other day that US export laws on cryptography were fairly stupid when you consider that other countries have the skills/intelligence to develop strong cryptography outside the US in the first place. For example, RSA was originally developed in the UK.
I feel like going for a troll, so here it is. The general accepted currency abbreviation for the UK is GBP (Great British Pounds) not UKP, which I have never seen before.
The fact that it seems obvious and trivial now is a testament to how DVR's have changed our lives
which makes me ask - what is TiVo take-up like in other countries besides the US? (I'm guessing by your comment its hot stuff over there). Here in the UK TiVo is not used particularly much and as far as I know Sky's equivalent isn't either (yet, anyway). Anyone able to say about the rest of the world?
Heh-heh just emerged that, its good fun to watch as the IP traffic for my SSH line running iptraf flies up with each update.
I think that he might mean the four horsemen according to the media, but I wouldn't want to put words in his mouth. He doesn't come across as being pro-porn though..
As others are sure to point out, a few years ago Microsoft wouldn't have bothered saying anything at all about Linux, then they dismissed it, and now they are trying to produce evidence against it. So clearly they are becoming more and more worried by the competition, although interestingly their advertising is all aimed at the server market, they are not yet mentioning Linux on the desktop. Is this to do with just where its been hurting them so far or is this indicative that they are not worried by Linux on the desktop just yet?
In my company, where the projects tend to involve very small teams (1-5), you can pretty much choose to do what you want as long as the result is what is needed. So some people use XP, some people do iterative stuff, some people plan it all out, etc.
This leads to odd disparities like people with separated parents being allowed the full loan amount and then help from both of them, and students from rich families getting minimum from the state and then nothing from their parents, who don't see why they should have to contribute anything.
There are also a few horror stories of parents just taking the student loan from the child for their own purposes, but I don't know if they are true.
Even in the UK though, where banks will throw (loaned) money at students, it would be pretty tricky to find creditors who would allow to run up debts much past 20 thousand (pounds). I personally owe 9 grand, which is on the lighter side of average.
It was also interesting that unemployment is higher in Canada and that he chose to ask the young Canadian kids about the price of healthcare. I'm not saying Americans are shooting each other up over healthcare, but that it is a sign of the different cultures.
You have been modded up and lots of people are agreeing.. but I disagree. Having recently finished a Computer Science degree and started work, there is no way I would have hired myself before uni, the degree really does make a difference. For me personally as well as on my CV (I would not have got my current job without a degree or possibly 10+ years in the industry to make up for the lack of one). Different strokes for different folks but IT degrees are not a total waste.
You say no kidding but bugger me that's high! So a top notch education for what, 2-4 years, costs as much as a small house?
This is sort of off-topic but can anyone explain to me how this works in the US? In the UK students are poor as anything but theoretically can get enough (loaned) from the state to survive. Is it much worse in the US?
I think that the stumbling block for open source gaming is more likely to be the organisation. To gather together lots of programmers, designers, artists, level makers, sound engineers etc into one vision and make them see it through without pay is quite a challenge. That's why so many independent games revolve around simple ideas in my opinion; I doubt we will see an open source Deus Ex/Final Fantasy for a while to come.
Not a troll, just my opinion.