Yeh, I was placed in some sort of program in 1st grade, and ever wednsday I'd ride the bus to another school and do lots of interesting stuff, and one of those was doing simple little programs in Logo (this was the late eighties).
As I recall, I rather enjoyed it. Also, I still hold the interest in programming, even though I'm not a programmer per se.
Apple is making the Record Labels obsolete. Why should sony get ANY money from an iTunes sale? They didn't produce anything. The musicians made the music, Apples runs the servers, and music publicity should be free (radio/touring). They just aren't needed any more.
I'm not willing to pay more than about $20 for WinXP. As soon as I can afford a Mac I won't even be running it anymore.
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I'm not even going to discuss the 360. I did for a while want an original Xbox (almost half just for Xbox Media Center, but then Front Row came out, so my interests in the console has waned considerably), but the price was always (and continues to be) way too high. I might have paid $100 for it. Now that the 360 is out, I was hoping used prices would plummet, but nothing like that has happened so far. At this point I've almost completely lost interest.
The consensus here, and my opinion, is that if you just want to be a generic programmer, yeh, India will screw you over. But the great thing about computer programming is that it is an applicable science in so many other fields that being just a programmer is shooting a little low. Example: By taking a few more engineering classes you can become a "Software Engineer" which is one of the fastest growing fields out there. IT is fine, it's just being satisified with knowing a language or two that will get you in trouble.
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I think the issue here is that 95% of the time my hands aren't actually ON the keyboard, my left hand rests on my knee and my right hand is using the mouse. I sit up and type on the keyboard when needed, but I generally only use the mouse. It maybe be somewhat slower, but it's just how I roll.
Almost everyone who uses "gay" in their regular vocabulary as something that is bad, generally has literally never actually met a gay person. I didn't meet one until I got to college! (But I never used the term. I was never much into slang as a child anyway). It's probably not meant to be directly offensive by, oh, 75% of the people who use it. You can't insult someone who isn't there, and they fail to realize that the Internet is a little bigger than their little town in rural America.
Really, I completely expect Nintendo to do this now. I require a new Duck Hunt. A cel-shaded hunting simulator, where you can kill that dog over and over and over again.
Also, Halo doesn't really need killing anymore, it's allready pretty much dead. I think most FPS fans are playing Half Life 2 right now.
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This isn't 1976, you're not sitting at a dumb terminal hooked up to a mainframe. It's '06, we have graphical user interfaces, in fact we're probably only a few years away from functional 3D GUI's, and you don't like mice.
For most of the people who read this site, yeh, the online component is going to be important. But for myself (I'm very much a gamer, but...), and for a lot of moderate to casual gamers, online stuff isn't all that important. Personally, I see myself maybe buying a few SNES games for the Revolution online, maybe playing some Smash bros or Mario Kart, but only occasionally. I can't think of ANY PS2 games I would care greatly to play online. Maybe have arcade shooters (think Ikaruga) post high scores online. That's about it. Nothing that's going to make or break the entire generation. What's going to make or break it this time is if game developers can learn to make new, fun, interesting game concepts, instead of delivering yet another version of Shoot All The Pedestrians 14 - Extreme Edition!
The sooner the human race is rid of this vile intrusion into our wardrobes the better. What you are wearing very rarely has anything to do with your productivity unless you're a salesman or dealing in PR.
Either there was a bug, or (much more likely) I configured it wrong, but I had some issues with my new 2.6.15 kernel I built the other day for a new attempt at using this fine OS on a more persistant basis (well, until I can afford a mac...). Dmesg mostly complained about the timer missing ticks, and this new version has a lot of timer code changes, so I wonder if it will (directly or indirectly) fix my problem...
Microsoft, first of all, has very intimite details on every possible attack vector to their OS (even if they will never be able to code them closed without completely rewriting the entire OS). They also have statistics, i would assume, from every Billy Bob Computer User calling them to complain about "windows popping up trying to sell me webcams". They are at a distinct advantage here. Of course the other anti-spyware companies are screwed.
It's not every day a game gets a perfect score from Famitsu. Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker display the sort of polish that defines a "Perfect Game". I suddenly have hope for this game.
I learned some BASIC in middle school, and then when I got to C in college I was barely able to keep up, because virtually nothing I had learned with BASIC carried over. I gave up on programming. But then I started messing around with Perl and then Ruby. And then I took Visual Basic. Visual Basic is NOT BASIC.
BASIC was wrong about everything. GOTO is obviously not a good default control scheme, just as an example. It didn't teach you anything about procedural programming that you couldn't learn in a better language.
That's why VB is not taken seriously. Well, it's also not taken seriously because it's a confused language, trying for both the simplicity and readability of Ruby(so it can be a learner language) while trying to adopt all the methods and classes of C#, which isn't even vaguely a beginner language. It doesn't do any one thing very well except that you can make the most simplistic windows programs imaginable with it without any thought. In that regard it's actually fairly useful. But I don't think it's a good learner language.
The whole point of MMO's is to try to achieve more things in less time than other people given the same opprotunities. This requires a combination of equipment management to achieve maximum stat-twinkery, money management, talent tree planning, investments and AH expertise, social networking, and farming. Purchasing gold with real money undermines the entire game, from both you and everyone else on your server.
Jesus Sez: "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understhand this: if the owner of the house had knwon at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept wach and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
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The jump from DS-->DSlite is a lot smaller than the jump from GBA-->GBAsp. This makes me pretty happy, because as it is the DS is an expensive device. I bought an SP when they came out because the lit screen was a must-have, but I can live perfectly happy with my DSheavy. It's almost upsetting that Nintendo spent R&D money on updating it at all, when they have work left to do (I assume) on the N5. (I hate the name "Revolution" so much). I will save the money I would have to spend on the lite to prepair for the N5, which I guess will probably cost $199.
Very little of what I do is illegal, and those things that I do that ARE are only very minorly illegal. I am not a concern to them, so I am not upset about them knowing absolutely everything about me.
If anything I wish people had to give out more information about themselves, it might promote a sense of honesty in our society. My point is that you should have nothing to hide in the first place.
This privacy paranoia is just crazy. You OUGHT to just assume anything and everything you do on the internet is emailed directly to the FBI, the CIA, and your mom. Just don't do anything wrong and you have nothing to worry about. I greatly like and respect the EFF but they need to get off of the privacy bandwagon. Nobody actually cares what you do online 99.9999% of the time.
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I have an advertised 1.5M/768k connection, and these are my speeds:
Download Speed: 1279 kbps (159.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 632 kbps (79 KB/sec transfer rate)
If you knock off 10% for overhead, you get quite close to the advertised speed. Not bad.
I find it somewhat dissapointing that one cannot get the original theatrical release in a nice shiney boxset, but this is better than nothing.
I guess my relatively restrained admiration of the films makes me somewhat out of place in this conversation anyway.
I'm not even really a TV fan. I watch maybe 3 hours of TV a week at most. I don't think my tuner's moved from Comedy Central in six months.
Yeh, I was placed in some sort of program in 1st grade, and ever wednsday I'd ride the bus to another school and do lots of interesting stuff, and one of those was doing simple little programs in Logo (this was the late eighties).
As I recall, I rather enjoyed it. Also, I still hold the interest in programming, even though I'm not a programmer per se.
Just get rid of advertising, Pay for the show with DVD sales. Why isn't it allready like this?
Apple is making the Record Labels obsolete. Why should sony get ANY money from an iTunes sale? They didn't produce anything. The musicians made the music, Apples runs the servers, and music publicity should be free (radio/touring). They just aren't needed any more.
I'm not willing to pay more than about $20 for WinXP. As soon as I can afford a Mac I won't even be running it anymore.
I'm not even going to discuss the 360. I did for a while want an original Xbox (almost half just for Xbox Media Center, but then Front Row came out, so my interests in the console has waned considerably), but the price was always (and continues to be) way too high. I might have paid $100 for it. Now that the 360 is out, I was hoping used prices would plummet, but nothing like that has happened so far. At this point I've almost completely lost interest.
The consensus here, and my opinion, is that if you just want to be a generic programmer, yeh, India will screw you over. But the great thing about computer programming is that it is an applicable science in so many other fields that being just a programmer is shooting a little low. Example: By taking a few more engineering classes you can become a "Software Engineer" which is one of the fastest growing fields out there. IT is fine, it's just being satisified with knowing a language or two that will get you in trouble.
I think the issue here is that 95% of the time my hands aren't actually ON the keyboard, my left hand rests on my knee and my right hand is using the mouse. I sit up and type on the keyboard when needed, but I generally only use the mouse. It maybe be somewhat slower, but it's just how I roll.
Almost everyone who uses "gay" in their regular vocabulary as something that is bad, generally has literally never actually met a gay person. I didn't meet one until I got to college! (But I never used the term. I was never much into slang as a child anyway). It's probably not meant to be directly offensive by, oh, 75% of the people who use it. You can't insult someone who isn't there, and they fail to realize that the Internet is a little bigger than their little town in rural America.
Really, I completely expect Nintendo to do this now. I require a new Duck Hunt. A cel-shaded hunting simulator, where you can kill that dog over and over and over again. Also, Halo doesn't really need killing anymore, it's allready pretty much dead. I think most FPS fans are playing Half Life 2 right now.
This isn't 1976, you're not sitting at a dumb terminal hooked up to a mainframe. It's '06, we have graphical user interfaces, in fact we're probably only a few years away from functional 3D GUI's, and you don't like mice.
WTF.
For most of the people who read this site, yeh, the online component is going to be important. But for myself (I'm very much a gamer, but...), and for a lot of moderate to casual gamers, online stuff isn't all that important. Personally, I see myself maybe buying a few SNES games for the Revolution online, maybe playing some Smash bros or Mario Kart, but only occasionally. I can't think of ANY PS2 games I would care greatly to play online. Maybe have arcade shooters (think Ikaruga) post high scores online. That's about it. Nothing that's going to make or break the entire generation. What's going to make or break it this time is if game developers can learn to make new, fun, interesting game concepts, instead of delivering yet another version of Shoot All The Pedestrians 14 - Extreme Edition!
...But nobody ever listens to me.
The sooner the human race is rid of this vile intrusion into our wardrobes the better. What you are wearing very rarely has anything to do with your productivity unless you're a salesman or dealing in PR.
Either there was a bug, or (much more likely) I configured it wrong, but I had some issues with my new 2.6.15 kernel I built the other day for a new attempt at using this fine OS on a more persistant basis (well, until I can afford a mac...). Dmesg mostly complained about the timer missing ticks, and this new version has a lot of timer code changes, so I wonder if it will (directly or indirectly) fix my problem...
Microsoft, first of all, has very intimite details on every possible attack vector to their OS (even if they will never be able to code them closed without completely rewriting the entire OS). They also have statistics, i would assume, from every Billy Bob Computer User calling them to complain about "windows popping up trying to sell me webcams". They are at a distinct advantage here. Of course the other anti-spyware companies are screwed.
It's not every day a game gets a perfect score from Famitsu. Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker display the sort of polish that defines a "Perfect Game". I suddenly have hope for this game.
I learned some BASIC in middle school, and then when I got to C in college I was barely able to keep up, because virtually nothing I had learned with BASIC carried over. I gave up on programming. But then I started messing around with Perl and then Ruby. And then I took Visual Basic. Visual Basic is NOT BASIC. BASIC was wrong about everything. GOTO is obviously not a good default control scheme, just as an example. It didn't teach you anything about procedural programming that you couldn't learn in a better language. That's why VB is not taken seriously. Well, it's also not taken seriously because it's a confused language, trying for both the simplicity and readability of Ruby(so it can be a learner language) while trying to adopt all the methods and classes of C#, which isn't even vaguely a beginner language. It doesn't do any one thing very well except that you can make the most simplistic windows programs imaginable with it without any thought. In that regard it's actually fairly useful. But I don't think it's a good learner language.
The whole point of MMO's is to try to achieve more things in less time than other people given the same opprotunities. This requires a combination of equipment management to achieve maximum stat-twinkery, money management, talent tree planning, investments and AH expertise, social networking, and farming. Purchasing gold with real money undermines the entire game, from both you and everyone else on your server.
Jesus Sez: "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understhand this: if the owner of the house had knwon at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept wach and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. Jesus 1, Technophobes 0
The jump from DS-->DSlite is a lot smaller than the jump from GBA-->GBAsp. This makes me pretty happy, because as it is the DS is an expensive device. I bought an SP when they came out because the lit screen was a must-have, but I can live perfectly happy with my DSheavy. It's almost upsetting that Nintendo spent R&D money on updating it at all, when they have work left to do (I assume) on the N5. (I hate the name "Revolution" so much). I will save the money I would have to spend on the lite to prepair for the N5, which I guess will probably cost $199.
Very little of what I do is illegal, and those things that I do that ARE are only very minorly illegal. I am not a concern to them, so I am not upset about them knowing absolutely everything about me. If anything I wish people had to give out more information about themselves, it might promote a sense of honesty in our society. My point is that you should have nothing to hide in the first place.
This privacy paranoia is just crazy. You OUGHT to just assume anything and everything you do on the internet is emailed directly to the FBI, the CIA, and your mom. Just don't do anything wrong and you have nothing to worry about. I greatly like and respect the EFF but they need to get off of the privacy bandwagon. Nobody actually cares what you do online 99.9999% of the time.