Agreed.
I used to bitch at people buying digital only assets (ITunes, I'm looking at you) as a no win situation.
Steam is all the opposite of that. They get insane rebates you'll never see in stores. They let you play offline, redownload countless times, they have automated patching of games which is worth gold, gone are the days of waiting on gamespy servers and going through hoops becasue the publishers will make you go to shady ad infested download sites with their "wait half an hour or pay for a gold memebership" crap.
They even have plus values such as notification of new video cards drivers and it can even patch it for you (opt-in)
The only thing I hate is that I can't be logged in from several computer at once on the same account, I could play a game on my pc while my gf plays one on my laptop...I guess shared accounts would be a rampant problem.
I used to hate the very idea of it...but getting top notch games for under 20$ helped me cope.
Don't worry, they will bring in a league system with matchmaking when it's final.
The elitist assholes will be able to bitch at each other while noobs play friendly in the brown leagues.
I keep reading that the IT field is going to face a shorting of ressources soon, because enlisting rates and numbers keep dwindling in the universities and colleges.
I have a grayscale 4th gen ipod, and I always hated the fact that I need it managed by some sort of library. I think the best way to use the player is like a usb key that has an embedded player.
Rockbox made me happy except for the fact that it would crash or freeze on average 3 times in an hour of continuous play. I had to revert back to apple's crappy firmware after 6 months because of instability. I know I'd prefer to use rockbox but it really needs improving. It's been something like 2 years since I stopped using it, can anyone tell me if I should try it again?
Surely there are emulators for these old architectures. I'm graduating this summer in Soft Eng. and people cringe whenever i mention I'd like to have advanced assembly as a choice for optional classes. Working in an emulator would be very instructive I would think.
I'm going to look for some right now. ..any links?
Your statement makes sense but it's not really what's happening. Google grows but it doesnt grow in one direction. I know because they just opened a research center here in Montreal and immediately started to post job openings. Looking at them, they are for highly experienced/skilled/specialized people. They wont go for fresh grads en masse (like MS does, and i know this too because we just had a MS visit at our university last week).
Take a new MS employee. He has low experience, recently graduated. Take a new Google employee. He has high experience likely and knows the big businesses way of work.
Which one will be more productive the first year? Why is Ballmer throwing chairs? Because Google is coming to Ms to take from them at the top, not from the bottom.
I am a student in Software engineering at an engineering school that gives and discriminates very well between: software engineering IT engineering electrical engineering mechanical engineering etc (they dont have CS, only engineering. . . ) lots of our teachers in soft eng. work on the IEEE comitees. To make the most out of the lot of overlapping curriculum, refer to this: http://www.computer.org/ (big pdf file)
I know, I've worked with some people from west island. I've had a job there even.
Some places (restaurants and convinience stores) there you can't be served in french. However, lots of the younger people know french very well. I am still not sure if it's because:
-our laws "forced" them to learn french in school here
-They are genuinely interested in the prospect of learning a new language
-french canadian girls are amazingly hot
Racist, isolationnist, angry. . . I think you're the one pissed off here.
I never said i was a separatist. I am not. I think Canada is a great country and I'm proud to be part of it. The issues I have come from our heritage. If you dont think your heritage is important, well, i think you're missing out. Why do you think there are st-patrick's parades and such?
Here, in montreal, we have yearly Greek parades, italians and probably tons of others i don't know about. We have st jean baptiste. It's not wrong to be patriotic, except when you're a french canadian it seems.
Maybe you resent us because you think we hate you. Be assured, I've been around the country and i know it's full of lovely places and lovely people. Ignore the politicians, they are all full of shit, and that is a universal law. Extreme separationists speak like all extremists do. . . and i dont share their views.
If we weren't thought history, we'd be culture-less people that would have no feelings for our kin. Here, we have two cultures to learn from, isn't that better?
Anglos from west island are the most hated... They live in a french province, yet, they refuse to learn the language. That's way worse than any tourist. . .
we weren't conquered. Else, we'd speak english by now. Assimilation was tried and failed. Only thing left to do was genocide, but it never came.
I wasn't complaining, i was merely trying to educate. I feel it's important for people to know where we come from if they want to understand us. I know as a tourist, i'm interested in these things.
Yes, France let us down. Yet, we are doing very good by now, without their help. We were so oppressed that even a great frenchman named Bernard Pivot said: "Quebecois love the french language more than the french themselves."
that's because of what we have to deal with everyday to keep it that we love it so.
read about our history. How we have been persecuted for years because of the languages differences. Read about how england tried to destroy the french after the colonial wars were over. See how our people were vanquished on the battlefields yet never conquered, all in the name of culture.
Then you might get a glimpse of why we are so sensitive about languages. Of course, a tourist is not expected to know these things, and i think beign rude isn't the way to deal with this.
We are not elitists, we are just outnumbered and we fight daily to keep ourselves from beign flooded. And we fight well enough to have a separatist party at the federal level.
If you visit Québec, just try to mention you're a tourist. It makes all the difference on the reply you'll get if you don't speak french.
I just did my parallel processing course.
On clusters we used C lib MPI (LAMMPI)
On shared memory machines we used pthreads.
We had a brief brush with OpenMP and JavaMPI
which both were just presented for completeness,
not for any serious use (labs).
I'm glad i did the course even tho it's just an
introduction. I'm sure that in the future I'll see
more and more of pthreads.
You buy a game. You have to pay a monthly fee to be able to play the game you already paid for. You have to pay someone else to play for you because you think the game is boring.
Why did you buy the game? Why do you still play the game?
if you have proof of this, it would be nice to visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering and add up that info. Check the middle of the article, you'll see this: "A fellow editor requested that someone provide references or some sources for the information in this section."
I would have liked to know the origins of the degree, but the information is hard to find.
Slashdot Mirror
24 FPS ought to be enough for everybody....
Agreed. I used to bitch at people buying digital only assets (ITunes, I'm looking at you) as a no win situation. Steam is all the opposite of that. They get insane rebates you'll never see in stores. They let you play offline, redownload countless times, they have automated patching of games which is worth gold, gone are the days of waiting on gamespy servers and going through hoops becasue the publishers will make you go to shady ad infested download sites with their "wait half an hour or pay for a gold memebership" crap. They even have plus values such as notification of new video cards drivers and it can even patch it for you (opt-in) The only thing I hate is that I can't be logged in from several computer at once on the same account, I could play a game on my pc while my gf plays one on my laptop...I guess shared accounts would be a rampant problem. I used to hate the very idea of it...but getting top notch games for under 20$ helped me cope.
Don't worry, they will bring in a league system with matchmaking when it's final. The elitist assholes will be able to bitch at each other while noobs play friendly in the brown leagues.
Decreasing enrollment stats don't come from managers...
A welding thingie I'd guess
I keep reading that the IT field is going to face a shorting of ressources soon, because enlisting rates and numbers keep dwindling in the universities and colleges.
Should be judged as unlistenable too. Sometimes some novelty just tries too hard
I want in!! pm me if you have spare invites, I really want to try this.
I have a grayscale 4th gen ipod, and I always hated the fact that I need it managed by some sort of library. I think the best way to use the player is like a usb key that has an embedded player. Rockbox made me happy except for the fact that it would crash or freeze on average 3 times in an hour of continuous play. I had to revert back to apple's crappy firmware after 6 months because of instability. I know I'd prefer to use rockbox but it really needs improving. It's been something like 2 years since I stopped using it, can anyone tell me if I should try it again?
docx is simply a zip of xml files
everyone can open it
editing is the problem
Surely there are emulators for these old architectures.
.any links?
I'm graduating this summer in Soft Eng. and people cringe whenever i mention I'd like to have advanced assembly as a choice for optional classes. Working in an emulator would be very instructive I would think.
I'm going to look for some right now. .
Your statement makes sense but it's not really what's happening. Google grows but it doesnt grow in one direction. I know because they just opened a research center here in Montreal and immediately started to post job openings. Looking at them, they are for highly experienced/skilled/specialized people. They wont go for fresh grads en masse (like MS does, and i know this too because we just had a MS visit at our university last week).
Take a new MS employee. He has low experience, recently graduated.
Take a new Google employee. He has high experience likely and knows the big businesses way of work.
Which one will be more productive the first year?
Why is Ballmer throwing chairs? Because Google is coming to Ms to take from them at the top, not from the bottom.
so in canada we can. This is were I graduate this summer:
http://www.etsmtl.ca/english/index.html
the software engineering degree is acknowledged by the BCAPI.
http://www.ccpe.ca/e/ccpe_boards_2.cfm
more info there about the differences between comp sci, IT eng, software eng, electrical eng, etc:
www.computer.org
I am a student in Software engineering at an engineering school that gives and discriminates very well between:
software engineering
IT engineering
electrical engineering
mechanical engineering
etc (they dont have CS, only engineering. . . )
lots of our teachers in soft eng. work on the IEEE comitees.
To make the most out of the lot of overlapping curriculum, refer to this:
http://www.computer.org/
(big pdf file)
they have a service based on illegal downloads because the RIAA souldnt let them electronically distribute, hence the suit, which makes sense.
I know, I've worked with some people from west island. I've had a job there even. Some places (restaurants and convinience stores) there you can't be served in french. However, lots of the younger people know french very well. I am still not sure if it's because: -our laws "forced" them to learn french in school here -They are genuinely interested in the prospect of learning a new language -french canadian girls are amazingly hot
I was playing on semantics. To me, conquered would mean we would be taught english laguage and history in schools, etc.
"Once I could speak French semi-fluently they would speak English to me." There you go. Think about it.
Racist, isolationnist, angry. . . I think you're the one pissed off here.
I never said i was a separatist.
I am not.
I think Canada is a great country and I'm proud to be part of it.
The issues I have come from our heritage. If you dont think your heritage is important, well, i think you're missing out.
Why do you think there are st-patrick's parades and such?
Here, in montreal, we have yearly Greek parades, italians and probably tons of others i don't know about. We have st jean baptiste. It's not wrong to be patriotic, except when you're a french canadian it seems.
Maybe you resent us because you think we hate you. Be assured, I've been around the country and i know it's full of lovely places and lovely people. Ignore the politicians, they are all full of shit, and that is a universal law. Extreme separationists speak like all extremists do. . . and i dont share their views.
If we weren't thought history, we'd be culture-less people that would have no feelings for our kin. Here, we have two cultures to learn from, isn't that better?
Don't do this!!!
.. They live in a french province, yet, they refuse to learn the language. That's way worse than any tourist. . .
Anglos from west island are the most hated.
we weren't conquered. Else, we'd speak english by now.
Assimilation was tried and failed. Only thing left to do was genocide, but it never came.
I wasn't complaining, i was merely trying to educate. I feel it's important for people to know where we come from if they want to understand us. I know as a tourist, i'm interested in these things.
Yes, France let us down. Yet, we are doing very good by now, without their help.
We were so oppressed that even a great frenchman named Bernard Pivot said:
"Quebecois love the french language more than the french themselves."
that's because of what we have to deal with everyday to keep it that we love it so.
read about our history.
How we have been persecuted for years because of the languages differences.
Read about how england tried to destroy the french after the colonial wars were over. See how our people were vanquished on the battlefields yet never conquered,
all in the name of culture.
Then you might get a glimpse of why we are so sensitive about languages.
Of course, a tourist is not expected to know these things, and i think beign rude isn't the way to deal with this.
We are not elitists, we are just outnumbered and we fight daily to keep ourselves from beign flooded. And we fight well enough to have a separatist party at the federal level.
If you visit Québec, just try to mention you're a tourist. It makes all the difference on the reply you'll get if you don't speak french.
I just did my parallel processing course. On clusters we used C lib MPI (LAMMPI) On shared memory machines we used pthreads. We had a brief brush with OpenMP and JavaMPI which both were just presented for completeness, not for any serious use (labs). I'm glad i did the course even tho it's just an introduction. I'm sure that in the future I'll see more and more of pthreads.
You buy a game.
You have to pay a monthly fee to be able to play the game you already paid for. You have to pay someone else to play for you because you think the game is boring.
Why did you buy the game?
Why do you still play the game?
Boycott the game, not the farmers.
if you have proof of this, it would be nice to visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering
and add up that info. Check the middle of the article, you'll see this:
"A fellow editor requested that someone provide references or some sources for the information in this section."
I would have liked to know the origins of the degree, but the information is hard to find.