If starting tomorrow (or version 1.4) Skype starts using SIP, would you tell the difference? Would your mother tell the difference then?
Mom would say that the sound has gaps in it since the SIP compression is not as good as the proprietary Skype algorithms. I would say, "Don't worry Mom. it will only get better."
Well, I've heard of "Jools" and "Gweled" for Linux. They look the same but I can't say if the game-play is the same or not. Try a quick search for "bejeweled for linux" on google.
I thought I could apply some lessons learned from the movie industry but then I realized that the movie biz. is just as fucked-up as the games industry. Shitty stories, knackered acting and big-budget FX are dooming the movie biz.
Since the movie studios are in the process of taking over the games industry I see no light at the end of the tunnel.
If they REALLY wanted to do it they could still "hotwire" the newer cars by bringing a seperate matching key/column computer and splicing it into the car but why bother with this hassle when you can just tow?
They also need a geek on staff to make sure the car isn't broadcasting its position via a wireless GPS thingy (CarWings or Galileo).
...The bottom line is, HR loves because it gives them an easy metric to measure candidates. And the testing companies love it because its a big business. And IT professionals buy into it because its a hell of a lot easier than trying to convey a complex skillset to someone who doesn't understand, doesn't want to understand, and couldn't really give a damn on top of it all.
Any company is free to operate in that manner but I won't be working there. I love it when one of our competitors starts with that shit. Then we know we will crush them in less than a year.
Does anyone know of a global list of names that people gave their BBSs? Some of them were funny: Alley Cat (on an Apple II); The CopShop (community police services); Death From Above (chopper in Apocalypse Now); Sprinkles (homo fetish site); Ontario Piss Pots (anti-OPP site); The Hippy Hut; Bartholemew Poopy Pants, etc. etc. Just to name a few from the Ottawa, Canada area.
Better graphics mean more money to produce. If you value gameplay and not graphics, stick to older games. If you value both, you'll just have to pay the extra. The fact that a game isn't any more "fun" doesn't change the fact that it cost orders of magnitude more money to write, unfortunately.
It is the same story for movies: Better F/X mean more money to produce. If you value plot and character development and not F/X, stick to older games. If you value both, you'll just have to pay the extra. The fact that a movie isn't any more "fun" doesn't change the fact that it cost orders of magnitude more money to produce, unfortunately. So, maybe the answer is to have the movie studios to step in and take over game development. Oh! wait a sec....
I'm curious: Can she charge up a storm on her credit cards? Can she avoid having sex for weeks at a time. Can she talk on the phone for hours to a long-distance friend in Japan? Can she drive without endangering the lives of others?
Arbitrary limitation is still going on, too. Try to buy a AMD 64 that can handle more then 4 GB of RAM. Most of the 64 bit motherboards have only 4 slots for SIMMs and it is even possible that some of the chipsets are limited to 4 GB RAM.
I thought the main purpose of 64 bit CPUs was to break the 4 GB barrier.
Personally, I prefer a Fresnel lens on an adjustable frame attached to my phone. At least you only have to turn your head when driving. Wearing "Geordi" goggles on the trek to work looks dangerous to me.
Use it as an excuse to buy a new computer with at least four dual-core Intel CPUS, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB HD, Combo Blu-ray/HD-DVD, ATI Radeon® 97000 PRO with 1 GB RAM, etc., etc.
It's possible, from a strictly business point of view, that this could be a good move for broadcasters all around. Dropping the bottom 12% of viewers might result in more accurate nielsen ratings based on consumers that have money to spend. Overall programming quality may go up and result in better TV overall.
No, I think the only thing that will go up is advertising rates and the network profits.
It is possible to get a job building on your MCS thesis with a company that is in a related field. For example a thesis titled "On the Discrete Quantum Factors of High-Dimensional Tori," could get you a position with a crypto company.
Put the tltle of your thesis in your resume and mention that it is available on demand. This will catch someone'a eye and then you are in.
I never thought of Yahoo as the hot chat room spot. No matter how many Yahoo chats or Aol or whatever, the chat place to be will always be IRC, which they'll never shut down and probably always have the most freedom in terms of channels available and content within.
I presume that no-one is raking in the the bucks from advertising on IRC? Are there even any ads on IRC?
"Britney Spears, Bill Gates, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Osama Bin Laden, Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton, Anna Kournikova, Paris Hilton, and Pamela Anderson."
What an upstanding group of celebs. True role models for our children. However, it is very much oriented to North Americans. Surely there must be different names for other parts of the world. For the UK:
1. Prince Harry -- Smoking pot with Neo-Nazis. 2. Blair and Bush -- Written apology to Iraq. Troops To Go. 3. HRH Brenda -- Dysentery cuts Indian tour short. 4. Crazy Frog -- Deported. 5. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh -- Gets slitty eyed at the local pub. 6. etc., etc.
This is a true story that depicts my descent into the hellish world of "computer customization."
It started innocently about a year ago; as few friends of mine sat around the glow of the monitor and trolling for Grammar Nazis on Usenet. Lucie said something or other about different keyboard layouts. I didn't think anything about it until the next time we met over at Bill's place.
Lucie had this black bag with her and she pulled out a keyboard. "C'mon," she urged with a malicious twinkle in her eye, "its called a Dvorak and all the kewl kidz are using them."
Bill said that was cool and plugged it in. We each took turns typing with it and all of us liked it much better than the old QWERTY keyboards.
I felt odd going back to the old layout on my own computer so I gave Lucie a call a few evenings later and she said her brother was expecting a big order at the end of the month. I managed to wait four more days until the 31st and I was riding high until the 18th when I was called in to the Principal's office. She asked me if I was alright or if there was something stressful happening at home. I said I was fine and I went to Lucie's place to wind down after school.
Lucie told us that the latest thing was "ergonomic keyboards" and she had only two for us to sample tonight. I fell hard for this and bought one before leaving. By this time I was leaving school at noon just to type on my new keyboard.
Over at Mike's place on Saturday evening Lucie pulled out a track ball and made Mike unplug his mouse and use this instead. Mike was too square to try using it and we all had a laugh at his old-school QWERTY keyboard and his cheap clone mouse.
Lucie and I began dating during the summer and then her brother committed suicide on June 15th. I started pushing peripherals in July and we bought his and hers Porsche Boxters in August. Apparently this was too much for our parents, Mike's Dad ratted us out and we now face charges of trafficking in computer accessories and other electronic devices. We lucked out since the police never found the boxes of aluminum mouse pads and chording keyboards in my folk's garage.
School starts in a week and I think we will each do well in our senior year. We have learned our lesson and now use standard peripherals only. Once a week we attend an accessories-anon meeting with our parents which helps a lot. Don't let this obsession ruin your life.
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Well, I've heard of "Jools" and "Gweled" for Linux. They look the same but I can't say if the game-play is the same or not. Try a quick search for "bejeweled for linux" on google.
What proof is there that these things could fly and didn't use its wings only to scoop fish out of the water?
Half the size of an SUV and over 300 sheets/minute. IBM must have done a super job of miniaturizing all those scribes and monks inside it.
I thought I could apply some lessons learned from the movie industry but then I realized that the movie biz. is just as fucked-up as the games industry. Shitty stories, knackered acting and big-budget FX are dooming the movie biz.
Since the movie studios are in the process of taking over the games industry I see no light at the end of the tunnel.
I think it has to be the exorbitant amount of memory that Firefox uses.
Does anyone know of a global list of names that people gave their BBSs? Some of them were funny: Alley Cat (on an Apple II); The CopShop (community police services); Death From Above (chopper in Apocalypse Now); Sprinkles (homo fetish site); Ontario Piss Pots (anti-OPP site); The Hippy Hut; Bartholemew Poopy Pants, etc. etc. Just to name a few from the Ottawa, Canada area.
That should be "...an ex-SCO employee...."
Better F/X mean more money to produce. If you value plot and character development and not F/X, stick to older games. If you value both, you'll just have to pay the extra. The fact that a movie isn't any more "fun" doesn't change the fact that it cost orders of magnitude more money to produce, unfortunately.
So, maybe the answer is to have the movie studios to step in and take over game development. Oh! wait a sec....
Oh Boy! Just what we need: more standards. Like my grandpa always said, the more the merrier.
I'm curious: Can she charge up a storm on her credit cards? Can she avoid having sex for weeks at a time. Can she talk on the phone for hours to a long-distance friend in Japan? Can she drive without endangering the lives of others?
At least she doesn't come with in-laws.
Arbitrary limitation is still going on, too. Try to buy a AMD 64 that can handle more then 4 GB of RAM. Most of the 64 bit motherboards have only 4 slots for SIMMs and it is even possible that some of the chipsets are limited to 4 GB RAM.
I thought the main purpose of 64 bit CPUs was to break the 4 GB barrier.
Personally, I prefer a Fresnel lens on an adjustable frame attached to my phone. At least you only have to turn your head when driving. Wearing "Geordi" goggles on the trek to work looks dangerous to me.
Hi,
It is possible to get a job building on your MCS thesis with a company that is in a related field. For example a thesis titled "On the Discrete Quantum Factors of High-Dimensional Tori," could get you a position with a crypto company.
Put the tltle of your thesis in your resume and mention that it is available on demand. This will catch someone'a eye and then you are in.
What an upstanding group of celebs. True role models for our children. However, it is very much oriented to North Americans. Surely there must be different names for other parts of the world. For the UK:
1. Prince Harry -- Smoking pot with Neo-Nazis.
2. Blair and Bush -- Written apology to Iraq. Troops To Go.
3. HRH Brenda -- Dysentery cuts Indian tour short.
4. Crazy Frog -- Deported.
5. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh -- Gets slitty eyed at the local pub.
6. etc., etc.
Yes "were." Past tense. I haven't used microsoft software in 18 months so I cannot say if they are better now. Nor do I care.
This is a true story that depicts my descent into the hellish world of "computer customization."
It started innocently about a year ago; as few friends of mine sat around the glow of the monitor and trolling for Grammar Nazis on Usenet. Lucie said something or other about different keyboard layouts. I didn't think anything about it until the next time we met over at Bill's place.
Lucie had this black bag with her and she pulled out a keyboard. "C'mon," she urged with a malicious twinkle in her eye, "its called a Dvorak and all the kewl kidz are using them."
Bill said that was cool and plugged it in. We each took turns typing with it and all of us liked it much better than the old QWERTY keyboards.
I felt odd going back to the old layout on my own computer so I gave Lucie a call a few evenings later and she said her brother was expecting a big order at the end of the month. I managed to wait four more days until the 31st and I was riding high until the 18th when I was called in to the Principal's office. She asked me if I was alright or if there was something stressful happening at home. I said I was fine and I went to Lucie's place to wind down after school.
Lucie told us that the latest thing was "ergonomic keyboards" and she had only two for us to sample tonight. I fell hard for this and bought one before leaving. By this time I was leaving school at noon just to type on my new keyboard.
Over at Mike's place on Saturday evening Lucie pulled out a track ball and made Mike unplug his mouse and use this instead. Mike was too square to try using it and we all had a laugh at his old-school QWERTY keyboard and his cheap clone mouse.
Lucie and I began dating during the summer and then her brother committed suicide on June 15th. I started pushing peripherals in July and we bought his and hers Porsche Boxters in August. Apparently this was too much for our parents, Mike's Dad ratted us out and we now face charges of trafficking in computer accessories and other electronic devices. We lucked out since the police never found the boxes of aluminum mouse pads and chording keyboards in my folk's garage.
School starts in a week and I think we will each do well in our senior year. We have learned our lesson and now use standard peripherals only. Once a week we attend an accessories-anon meeting with our parents which helps a lot. Don't let this obsession ruin your life.