No, in fact I don't even own a house, much less a cottage. Most people don't believe it or not. In fact, most people never will, not because they don't want one but because they will never afford one. Also, I think your comment is irrelevant, but cheers!
I don't agree and I figured someone would comment on that. I'm 25 and was on the cusp of Nintendo and have made it a part of my life. My brother on the other hand who is 5 years older really had nothing to do with games after the NES as he was a teenager by the time SNES came out and teens wern't into these things at that time. He eventually bought a PS because it really appealed to him. He went probably 10 years without gaming as did many of his friends at the time but bought PS's. I think you are right in that ues, many of the people growing up will still play games, but the PS appealed to many people who were 25 - 35 at the time and really only played Atari and similar systems in their day and never really looked at games from 13 - 24 or so.
These people still play a lot of games and don't really care that portables exist. So, you subtract this portion of game players and you are left with still a majority, but most of that majority wants nothing to do with these things.
Yeah, my roomate has one but he's not your typical adult that plays games since the PS came out. He's a game nUrd so of course he owns one of everything. The PS hit it so big because so many adults who didn't play games started playing them. Those same adults are turned off by portables. The Castlevania on Gameboy is cool though.
I just don't see this as a smart move on Soney's behalf. The PS had appeal because it tore down Nintendo's more chilidish marketing and development. Adults liked it. I do not see the same effect in a portable.
Sure, some adults will buy this thing, but I would argue, with no data to back me up, that adults by and large want nothing to do with such a system as a cell phone is already enough to lug around and it isn't easy to get a date while playing a portable game system.
Kids buy these things and Nintendo has the market square. They are constantly reinventing the system and the parents who buy these things for kids will buy Nintendo.
Good chance I'm wrong as I'm sure similar things were said about the PS, although my initial reaction to the PS was this was going to rock everything as it went beyond the types of games, but rather the media type, etc.
Is there really room for 2 portable systems? It has proven time and time again there is not. Ask SNK, Sega, Turbo Graphix, those Wonder Swan people and the resounding answer has been no. Sony's only chance here is if there is enough room for two markets. My initial reaction is many developers are having cold feet about it as they feel this too.
Either way I don't care. I don't own stock in either company or work for them or own a portable system nor do I plan on buying one. I don't think many other people plan on buying one too.
Well, yes and no. That was really the point of it in the first place. It still uses much of the same process that Tysons does but found new approaches. Sure, some of it was *thought* to be disproved but McDonald proved it was a reality and went on to expand the theory into a more "tender" version, if you will. It's an easier concept to work with and just as valid.
But, of course this is all very experimental, much like stringy theory (as it uses some of the vector equations of stringy), but definitely shows some promise. Only the future will tell, but I for one am a believer.
"These are commonly referred to Regular and Extra Stringy."
Those are cool and all but I've really been into "Nugget" theory, named after Shigaro Nuggs. Basically, it is based on A sub R sub h. This second derivative in the multi variable function explains how to decompose Tysons theorem into modular pieces that scientists can devour quickly spur research. The research looks promising, if only we could somehow integrate it with Maxwell's equation regarding proper heating for granular substances. Ahhh, we can dream.
Ah yes, the Taurus Theorem. I most definitely should have made note of it, but I assumed people would know to cite this. I guess I overestimated the intellectual might of this forum. To the study!
Where c is speed of light, of course, h is a coefficient representing the fabric and this is a quotient where k is a coefficient to the constant e (~ 2.7) and raised to n which is a variable for mass or changing objects in space.
Sanders developed a corollary for this saying:
f-r/e^d
where f is the temperature in space in farenheight and r is the change, divided by e, again, to the d, which is similar to n, but loses its delta value.
It's a lot to grasp if you don't know physics well, but what they say is that objects do indeed get entangled in the fabric of space time and move, due to gravity. Neat stuff...really. Hehehe.
That's a pretty pretensions comment. Many people don't have access, either through finance or friends, etc to get interested in CS things like programming at an early age. Granted, while in it you ought to be interested and enthused about, else you should probably be doing something else that does. But, that's the whole point of college; to discover what interests you if you haven't already and experiment with things. Many of these "majority of CS students" are taking a Java class to see if they enjoy it, thus it is the first time they have touched a command line. Many of them will find it's not for them and drop. Some will stick around for some reason.
Besides, if you knew anything of CS you would know Java and command lines have as much to do with it as telescopes do to astronomy, to paraphrase Dijkstra. In fact, I had professors who could care less about Java or command lines because their interests are in theoretical computer science, algorithms, math, theory, etc.
Perhaps you are in the wrong major. Maybe you belong in a traade school for programming?
Just about any CS program I have heard of does this. English teachers use this too. They pool all asssignments from all classes and run them against each other. Many schools share assignments for this as well. I'm sure just about every school uses this technique in various fields.
Do not slack at your math. You will repeat it. It often takes time. It is very important. Learn to utilize math and make it one of your more powerful tools.
Do not cheat on code assignments. Once again, it may take time but you need it. Messing up and looking through code more than writing it is what really makes you good.
Take hard CS classes. Take advantage of rare courses your school may offer in CS. Take tough classes like compilers or computational geometry. Make sure you take some diverse classes but also try and focus on something a bit that you enjoy.
Take more math. This is a skill that can really differentiate you from other programmers in the industry, If you have good math skills, you can get good paying, secure jobs in fields like computer graphics, physics, medical and other science fields that demand proficient math skills. It will also change the way you think if you really take it seriously and understand that much of the early math is indeed lame, but necessary to understand useful math that you will eventually learn.
Take other classes, like art. You can learn a lot from these things and apply them to what you are doing. Knowing about various things will come in handy at some point.
Learn more than what your school will teach you. It is up to you to read about things in the field, both theory and practical. Learn languages not needed in your school. Play around with things. Put together a cheap Linux computer at home and play around in it if you haven't already. You are interested in this anyways, so this shouldn't be something you have to do.
Maybe CS is not for you. The future is not guaranteed in this field as far as job security is concerned. You may spend a lot of time taking hard classes only to have to end up doing something else. You may not even make it through the program. Personally, I think there will always be a need for well educated, creative, smart people. The analytic skills you can learn will do more for you than anything else. Pay attention.
If you love it and are good at it and really spend the time in school to really learn this art, you could enjoy a career working in an industry you love. If you are ambitious, there will be many trails to be blazed in the future in this young, ever changing field. It's not about "computers". It's about computation, a modern subset of math that we can abstract in electronics. The possibilities are endless and you may invent the next big thing.
I want to do my part to keep America Strong and I think by playing games with ad's in it, I will be helping. I fully expect Coke AND Pepsi will debate the better cola in front of me as I am entertaining myself in front of some FPS. Lets face it, you play too many games as do I. We don't have time to really be informed about whats important to us, our things. We have been making bad consumer choices for awhile since we've been into Everquest and not paying attention to the ad's that shape our lives really. Without these ad's, everywhere and all the time, we are simply lost consumers pretending to enjoy things of which we know so little about and perhaps nothing of the competition.
I say to you Coke, why are you better? And to you Pepsi, differentiate yourself from your rival, mean Mr. Coke. I say duel! To the victor goes my spending dollar! Hurrah!
Yeah, I agree. I get paid pretty well lately doing simple routine jobs such as removing spyware. To me, spyware is the new "killer app". I just hope more and more of it gets made. I'm definitly pro-spyware. Also, I bring joy to peoples faces when I remove it for them. So in conclusion, spyware makes people happy and should be promoted by a citizens government. We should also rename it from spyware to joyware.
I have a job fixing computers and lately the business has been booming big time with customer calls coming in because of all the spyware they have. Many don't even know that it's spyware causing their problems but when we investigate it's usually the first thing we find. Often, removing it, securing some holes in their OS (ahem, Windows) etc fixes their problems. Then we give them a lecture on spyware, what it is, how they got it and what they can do to prevent it. Then we give them a $75/hr bill.:)
Anyways, the new tagline for spyware should be: "Spyware, bad for consumers, great for business!"
I was hoping other readers would see this as a good example of someone trying to do something practically worthless, as you pointed out, there are many ways to easily do this already. Hopefully the poster is simply doing this to do it and learn something about Linux and network programming, as well as integrating OSS into something. But then again, good design to a problem solution is not as easy to come by as is assumed. I'm rambling. Well done.
Yeah, I agree. Red VS Blue is OK at first but I sort of forgot about it and never bothered to grab new episodes. I'm not going to say it sucks or anything as I'm not doing anything better (nor aspire to in that medium), but I don't watch TV because it's generally boring to watch things and I cannot see myself watching what amounts to TV, but over the Net. Ah well, I'm sure a lot of people like it so more power to them.
Intel, by providing free and open standards will showcase themselves as a pioneer willing to make sacrifices to maintain the leadership role their company currently has. Nothing lasts forever and if they think only with greed they will more easily lose their "number one" status.
In general, you want to keep the field you play on in good shape. You need to take care of your arena so people find value in your products. If the Intel research will make internet use greater for more people, this directly benefits Intel as it will lead to presumably more chip sales in the end.
If they really get something good going here and fail to keep it open and free, no one will adopt it and they will have just wasted money on research that will not pay off and not have increased chip sales.
Then again, I could be entirely wrong here and Intel needs to figure out a way to increase their already huge profit margins. This may be the way?
I agree with you in that the nasty comments from both sides can help us as possibly exposing people to the dirt that both parties are made of and hopefully change their thoughts on what they are voting for one day. The problem is, people will only see that the other side is a falicy and always lend a deaf ear to complaints about their own side. How do you tell someone they've been wrong their whole life?
How about I rent your software instead of paying one price for it once and owning it. This way I get to pay for it over and over, like an apartment and never get equity in it! Sounds great for me, you got me suckerd!
A sport is an activity that involves atheletic ability and procedure. Like darts, pool, golf etc, math is not a sport but rather a skill. Some skills should be in the Olympics because they do require some physical ability or physical skill. Math does not and should not be in the Olympics. It's in the same vein as programming competitions. It's an intellectual skill, not a physical one.
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"You don't go to a cottage* on weekends, do you?"
No, in fact I don't even own a house, much less a cottage. Most people don't believe it or not. In fact, most people never will, not because they don't want one but because they will never afford one. Also, I think your comment is irrelevant, but cheers!
I don't agree and I figured someone would comment on that. I'm 25 and was on the cusp of Nintendo and have made it a part of my life. My brother on the other hand who is 5 years older really had nothing to do with games after the NES as he was a teenager by the time SNES came out and teens wern't into these things at that time. He eventually bought a PS because it really appealed to him. He went probably 10 years without gaming as did many of his friends at the time but bought PS's. I think you are right in that ues, many of the people growing up will still play games, but the PS appealed to many people who were 25 - 35 at the time and really only played Atari and similar systems in their day and never really looked at games from 13 - 24 or so.
These people still play a lot of games and don't really care that portables exist. So, you subtract this portion of game players and you are left with still a majority, but most of that majority wants nothing to do with these things.
You could be correct however, just my intuition.
"To put it another way, so long as both systems fulfill gaming needs, they can coexist."
I simply don't have a vision of there being this need, which is the point I was eluding to and I think you touched on.
Yeah, my roomate has one but he's not your typical adult that plays games since the PS came out. He's a game nUrd so of course he owns one of everything. The PS hit it so big because so many adults who didn't play games started playing them. Those same adults are turned off by portables. The Castlevania on Gameboy is cool though.
I just don't see this as a smart move on Soney's behalf. The PS had appeal because it tore down Nintendo's more chilidish marketing and development. Adults liked it. I do not see the same effect in a portable.
Sure, some adults will buy this thing, but I would argue, with no data to back me up, that adults by and large want nothing to do with such a system as a cell phone is already enough to lug around and it isn't easy to get a date while playing a portable game system.
Kids buy these things and Nintendo has the market square. They are constantly reinventing the system and the parents who buy these things for kids will buy Nintendo.
Good chance I'm wrong as I'm sure similar things were said about the PS, although my initial reaction to the PS was this was going to rock everything as it went beyond the types of games, but rather the media type, etc.
Is there really room for 2 portable systems? It has proven time and time again there is not. Ask SNK, Sega, Turbo Graphix, those Wonder Swan people and the resounding answer has been no. Sony's only chance here is if there is enough room for two markets. My initial reaction is many developers are having cold feet about it as they feel this too.
Either way I don't care. I don't own stock in either company or work for them or own a portable system nor do I plan on buying one. I don't think many other people plan on buying one too.
"...and contained very little of Tyson's ideas."
Well, yes and no. That was really the point of it in the first place. It still uses much of the same process that Tysons does but found new approaches. Sure, some of it was *thought* to be disproved but McDonald proved it was a reality and went on to expand the theory into a more "tender" version, if you will. It's an easier concept to work with and just as valid.
But, of course this is all very experimental, much like stringy theory (as it uses some of the vector equations of stringy), but definitely shows some promise. Only the future will tell, but I for one am a believer.
"These are commonly referred to Regular and Extra Stringy."
Those are cool and all but I've really been into "Nugget" theory, named after Shigaro Nuggs. Basically, it is based on A sub R sub h. This second derivative in the multi variable function explains how to decompose Tysons theorem into modular pieces that scientists can devour quickly spur research. The research looks promising, if only we could somehow integrate it with Maxwell's equation regarding proper heating for granular substances. Ahhh, we can dream.
Ah yes, the Taurus Theorem. I most definitely should have made note of it, but I assumed people would know to cite this. I guess I overestimated the intellectual might of this forum. To the study!
Tysons Equation explains this:
ch/(c - ke^n)
Where c is speed of light, of course, h is a coefficient representing the fabric and this is a quotient where k is a coefficient to the constant e (~ 2.7) and raised to n which is a variable for mass or changing objects in space.
Sanders developed a corollary for this saying:
f-r/e^d
where f is the temperature in space in farenheight and r is the change, divided by e, again, to the d, which is similar to n, but loses its delta value.
It's a lot to grasp if you don't know physics well, but what they say is that objects do indeed get entangled in the fabric of space time and move, due to gravity. Neat stuff...really. Hehehe.
That's a pretty pretensions comment. Many people don't have access, either through finance or friends, etc to get interested in CS things like programming at an early age. Granted, while in it you ought to be interested and enthused about, else you should probably be doing something else that does. But, that's the whole point of college; to discover what interests you if you haven't already and experiment with things. Many of these "majority of CS students" are taking a Java class to see if they enjoy it, thus it is the first time they have touched a command line. Many of them will find it's not for them and drop. Some will stick around for some reason.
Besides, if you knew anything of CS you would know Java and command lines have as much to do with it as telescopes do to astronomy, to paraphrase Dijkstra. In fact, I had professors who could care less about Java or command lines because their interests are in theoretical computer science, algorithms, math, theory, etc.
Perhaps you are in the wrong major. Maybe you belong in a traade school for programming?
Just about any CS program I have heard of does this. English teachers use this too. They pool all asssignments from all classes and run them against each other. Many schools share assignments for this as well. I'm sure just about every school uses this technique in various fields.
Do not slack at your math. You will repeat it. It often takes time. It is very important. Learn to utilize math and make it one of your more powerful tools.
Do not cheat on code assignments. Once again, it may take time but you need it. Messing up and looking through code more than writing it is what really makes you good.
Take hard CS classes. Take advantage of rare courses your school may offer in CS. Take tough classes like compilers or computational geometry. Make sure you take some diverse classes but also try and focus on something a bit that you enjoy.
Take more math. This is a skill that can really differentiate you from other programmers in the industry, If you have good math skills, you can get good paying, secure jobs in fields like computer graphics, physics, medical and other science fields that demand proficient math skills. It will also change the way you think if you really take it seriously and understand that much of the early math is indeed lame, but necessary to understand useful math that you will eventually learn.
Take other classes, like art. You can learn a lot from these things and apply them to what you are doing. Knowing about various things will come in handy at some point.
Learn more than what your school will teach you. It is up to you to read about things in the field, both theory and practical. Learn languages not needed in your school. Play around with things. Put together a cheap Linux computer at home and play around in it if you haven't already. You are interested in this anyways, so this shouldn't be something you have to do.
Maybe CS is not for you. The future is not guaranteed in this field as far as job security is concerned. You may spend a lot of time taking hard classes only to have to end up doing something else. You may not even make it through the program. Personally, I think there will always be a need for well educated, creative, smart people. The analytic skills you can learn will do more for you than anything else. Pay attention.
If you love it and are good at it and really spend the time in school to really learn this art, you could enjoy a career working in an industry you love. If you are ambitious, there will be many trails to be blazed in the future in this young, ever changing field. It's not about "computers". It's about computation, a modern subset of math that we can abstract in electronics. The possibilities are endless and you may invent the next big thing.
I want to do my part to keep America Strong and I think by playing games with ad's in it, I will be helping. I fully expect Coke AND Pepsi will debate the better cola in front of me as I am entertaining myself in front of some FPS. Lets face it, you play too many games as do I. We don't have time to really be informed about whats important to us, our things. We have been making bad consumer choices for awhile since we've been into Everquest and not paying attention to the ad's that shape our lives really. Without these ad's, everywhere and all the time, we are simply lost consumers pretending to enjoy things of which we know so little about and perhaps nothing of the competition.
I say to you Coke, why are you better? And to you Pepsi, differentiate yourself from your rival, mean Mr. Coke. I say duel! To the victor goes my spending dollar! Hurrah!
Now, not only does your MMO, "Shadowbane", suck, you will start to advertize to the 0 people that play it! Where do I buy stock?
Yeah, I agree. I get paid pretty well lately doing simple routine jobs such as removing spyware. To me, spyware is the new "killer app". I just hope more and more of it gets made. I'm definitly pro-spyware. Also, I bring joy to peoples faces when I remove it for them. So in conclusion, spyware makes people happy and should be promoted by a citizens government. We should also rename it from spyware to joyware.
I have a job fixing computers and lately the business has been booming big time with customer calls coming in because of all the spyware they have. Many don't even know that it's spyware causing their problems but when we investigate it's usually the first thing we find. Often, removing it, securing some holes in their OS (ahem, Windows) etc fixes their problems. Then we give them a lecture on spyware, what it is, how they got it and what they can do to prevent it. Then we give them a $75/hr bill. :)
Anyways, the new tagline for spyware should be: "Spyware, bad for consumers, great for business!"
I was hoping other readers would see this as a good example of someone trying to do something practically worthless, as you pointed out, there are many ways to easily do this already. Hopefully the poster is simply doing this to do it and learn something about Linux and network programming, as well as integrating OSS into something. But then again, good design to a problem solution is not as easy to come by as is assumed.
I'm rambling. Well done.
No.
Yeah, I agree. Red VS Blue is OK at first but I sort of forgot about it and never bothered to grab new episodes. I'm not going to say it sucks or anything as I'm not doing anything better (nor aspire to in that medium), but I don't watch TV because it's generally boring to watch things and I cannot see myself watching what amounts to TV, but over the Net.
Ah well, I'm sure a lot of people like it so more power to them.
Intel, by providing free and open standards will showcase themselves as a pioneer willing to make sacrifices to maintain the leadership role their company currently has. Nothing lasts forever and if they think only with greed they will more easily lose their "number one" status.
In general, you want to keep the field you play on in good shape. You need to take care of your arena so people find value in your products. If the Intel research will make internet use greater for more people, this directly benefits Intel as it will lead to presumably more chip sales in the end.
If they really get something good going here and fail to keep it open and free, no one will adopt it and they will have just wasted money on research that will not pay off and not have increased chip sales.
Then again, I could be entirely wrong here and Intel needs to figure out a way to increase their already huge profit margins. This may be the way?
I agree with you in that the nasty comments from both sides can help us as possibly exposing people to the dirt that both parties are made of and hopefully change their thoughts on what they are voting for one day. The problem is, people will only see that the other side is a falicy and always lend a deaf ear to complaints about their own side. How do you tell someone they've been wrong their whole life?
How about I rent your software instead of paying one price for it once and owning it. This way I get to pay for it over and over, like an apartment and never get equity in it! Sounds great for me, you got me suckerd!
Score 6.
Understatement of the year.
A sport is an activity that involves atheletic ability and procedure. Like darts, pool, golf etc, math is not a sport but rather a skill. Some skills should be in the Olympics because they do require some physical ability or physical skill. Math does not and should not be in the Olympics. It's in the same vein as programming competitions. It's an intellectual skill, not a physical one.