Submitter here. I current hold a upper-second class (the next step down from a first class, don't know how American colleges grade their awards) honours BSc in Comp Sci from a reasonably well-respected UK university. So I meet the criteria for most Computer Science Masters courses that I have come across.
Regarding your confusion of my current position, when I first graduated I was unsure if I was suitable for any kind of development role, which I suppose is the avenue taken by a large proportion of Comp Sci graduates. I was good enough at programming to pass the modules, but I never really programmed for pleasure or got involved beyond what was required of me academically. I know that makes me a blasphemer and a poser on here!
I worked in unrelated fields for a couple of years, which wasn't terrible as I paid off a lot of debt, especially at the beginning while living with the parents. My current job is my first 'proper' IT role, and considering my initial circumstances it seemed like quite a good first rung of the ladder. However, I have felt for quite a while that I both wanted to leave my current area of residence as well as thinking that this job is not right for me. It just feels like the right time to start planning a clean break, and soon, especially with the new academic year creeping up.
I have enough money saved up to live and study for a whole year, so the finance side of a Masters is not the major hurdle if the qualification would be worthwhile. I quite like the idea of going back to academia and taking it seriously this time, no more skipping lectures due to hangovers and doing it half-assed like my Bachelors. Working with colleagues that are involved with data management and web development as part of their own roles, and finding it quite interesting from where I stand, I have been looking at Masters programmes that specialise in these areas, rather than just do another year of general Comp Sci. There aren't that many programmes in these areas so my options are limited but still out there.
Heh, just on BBC Breakfast this morning there was a feature about the new craze of 'Gold Parties'. Along the same lines of Tupperware and Vibrator parties, bored housewives are now having get-togethers to sell their spare gold jewellery. A company valuer weighs the gold and gives the party attendee 70% of the current price, with the party host receiving a nifty ten percent of total money taken. So if the same companies that are setting up gold parties are then selling off the gold in bars from vending machines, they're making a nice little margin and both ends of the transaction.
The programmers are just the construction workers who make the design a reality. Both are skilled and necessary, but construction workers without an architect aren't going to build anything of great value.
This thing is crying out for applications beyond games (which will be interesting, don't get me wrong). Imagine hooking this up to your front door - you could use the gesture recognition to make it so that your door only unlocks for people when they do the Truffle Shuffle!
Yeah, and I fiddled expenses to claim a few hundred quid from a multi-billion pound corporation, but they still fired me and I was still prosecuted for fraud. How my boss and the police can get so worked up at the loss of such a comparatively small amount of money is beyond me!
I think the parent was commenting on the incongruity of someone named 'unsigned integer' exclaiming that they aren't a number. I like to think the grandparent posted it knowingly, but you never can tell.
Exactly. Thief 2 is my favourite of the series, and its gameplay mechanics are far superior to Deadly Shadows, except for maybe one or two improvements like the new lock-picking system which I believe should be kept for T4. The movement and body awareness in DS felt really sluggish, as though Garrett was stumbling through knee-high water. Blackjacking enemies, and the associated 'snap' to position the bodies was also a downside. Obviously the compromises made for the Xbox, e.g. the loading zones, were a huge disappointment.
I agree that Garrett's story arc has been completed, so a prequel with him as main character could be interesting, if you could fit a storyline between the beginning of his training and the start of The Dark Project. Failing that, a sequel focusing on his female apprentice could also work, and you could still have Garrett (and his awesome voice provided by Stephen Russell) involved in the storyline. A healthy mix of looting environments - city-based, mansions, churches, tombs etc. - as well as their associated enemy types is a must.
Ditch the climbing gloves and re-instate the rope arrows. Also get rid of the stupid loot glint, or make it an optional feature or part of a 'noob mode' that is off by default. The original method of using loot was far better, as well as highlighting frobbable objects (make them brighter, as opposed to giving them an atomic blue glow).
I won't keep my hopes up, I was somewhat burned by Deadly Shadows and I'm not expecting any miracles to occur this time round either.
When people start making comments like this, I can't help wondering if this was someone's science project that got out into the open instead of a strain that occurred naturally.
Yeah, that or an effort from Gilead Sciences to increase sales of Tamiflu.
Not only will you have broadband, but Phorm will even track what websites you visit in order to serve adverts that are relevant to you, and the goverment will be monitoring your connection to make sure you don't inadvertently access any violent pornography and that no terrorists try to indoctrinate you. Sign me up!
Secondly, the Wii motion plus is rumoured to be a 20$ item or included with several upcoming Wii motion plus games, so how can it go from being 'too expensive' only a few years ago to being a 'throwaway item' now?
In the same way that a DVD burner can go from $150 to $20 in a few years time, or RAM that cost you $80 a couple of years ago is now $20. Technology becomes cheaper over time.
I think the poster is making the mistake of trying to pigeon-hole 'pirates' into a category of tech-savvy computer nerds out to liberate the indie musicians from the suffocating embrace of the RIAA and Big Media and enforce a massive paradigm shift upon the distribution and consumption of entertainment. Sure, such a demographic is no doubt largely represented among the 20 million or whatever Pirate Bay visitors, but I'd wager that an equally significant proportion are just your typical Joe Sixpack consumer with enough technical knowledge to download a torrent - teenage girls downloading the High School Musical soundtrack, bored housewives and college students downloading the latest episode of Lost and so on. So bemoaning the fact that the 'pirates' appear to be downloading the exact mass-produced tat that the same 'pirates' are supposed to be railing against seems, to me, to be disingenuous.
On the one hand, it may seem counter-productive that the majority of media being torrented is largely big-label and megacorp product because these 'civilly disobedient' keyboard warriors decry it and should boycott it completely instead. However, on the other hand, it may help the ultimate cause of filesharers by highlighting the fact that the pirate demographic cuts huge swathes and that it is mostly normal people who don't see a problem with sharing files with eachother, rather than a bunch of fringe computer nerds who make a convenient target for media types and politicians.
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Submitter here. I current hold a upper-second class (the next step down from a first class, don't know how American colleges grade their awards) honours BSc in Comp Sci from a reasonably well-respected UK university. So I meet the criteria for most Computer Science Masters courses that I have come across.
Regarding your confusion of my current position, when I first graduated I was unsure if I was suitable for any kind of development role, which I suppose is the avenue taken by a large proportion of Comp Sci graduates. I was good enough at programming to pass the modules, but I never really programmed for pleasure or got involved beyond what was required of me academically. I know that makes me a blasphemer and a poser on here!
I worked in unrelated fields for a couple of years, which wasn't terrible as I paid off a lot of debt, especially at the beginning while living with the parents. My current job is my first 'proper' IT role, and considering my initial circumstances it seemed like quite a good first rung of the ladder. However, I have felt for quite a while that I both wanted to leave my current area of residence as well as thinking that this job is not right for me. It just feels like the right time to start planning a clean break, and soon, especially with the new academic year creeping up.
I have enough money saved up to live and study for a whole year, so the finance side of a Masters is not the major hurdle if the qualification would be worthwhile. I quite like the idea of going back to academia and taking it seriously this time, no more skipping lectures due to hangovers and doing it half-assed like my Bachelors. Working with colleagues that are involved with data management and web development as part of their own roles, and finding it quite interesting from where I stand, I have been looking at Masters programmes that specialise in these areas, rather than just do another year of general Comp Sci. There aren't that many programmes in these areas so my options are limited but still out there.
Heh, just on BBC Breakfast this morning there was a feature about the new craze of 'Gold Parties'. Along the same lines of Tupperware and Vibrator parties, bored housewives are now having get-togethers to sell their spare gold jewellery. A company valuer weighs the gold and gives the party attendee 70% of the current price, with the party host receiving a nifty ten percent of total money taken. So if the same companies that are setting up gold parties are then selling off the gold in bars from vending machines, they're making a nice little margin and both ends of the transaction.
The programmers are just the construction workers who make the design a reality. Both are skilled and necessary, but construction workers without an architect aren't going to build anything of great value.
Good analogy.
This thing is crying out for applications beyond games (which will be interesting, don't get me wrong). Imagine hooking this up to your front door - you could use the gesture recognition to make it so that your door only unlocks for people when they do the Truffle Shuffle!
Do you know how much energy it takes to make those rocks?
Yeah, and I fiddled expenses to claim a few hundred quid from a multi-billion pound corporation, but they still fired me and I was still prosecuted for fraud. How my boss and the police can get so worked up at the loss of such a comparatively small amount of money is beyond me!
a /. poster, with 5 girlfriends?
Yep. They're called Thumb, Index, Middle, Ring and Pinky.
I think the parent was commenting on the incongruity of someone named 'unsigned integer' exclaiming that they aren't a number. I like to think the grandparent posted it knowingly, but you never can tell.
Strangely enough...
Exactly. Thief 2 is my favourite of the series, and its gameplay mechanics are far superior to Deadly Shadows, except for maybe one or two improvements like the new lock-picking system which I believe should be kept for T4. The movement and body awareness in DS felt really sluggish, as though Garrett was stumbling through knee-high water. Blackjacking enemies, and the associated 'snap' to position the bodies was also a downside. Obviously the compromises made for the Xbox, e.g. the loading zones, were a huge disappointment.
I agree that Garrett's story arc has been completed, so a prequel with him as main character could be interesting, if you could fit a storyline between the beginning of his training and the start of The Dark Project. Failing that, a sequel focusing on his female apprentice could also work, and you could still have Garrett (and his awesome voice provided by Stephen Russell) involved in the storyline. A healthy mix of looting environments - city-based, mansions, churches, tombs etc. - as well as their associated enemy types is a must.
Ditch the climbing gloves and re-instate the rope arrows. Also get rid of the stupid loot glint, or make it an optional feature or part of a 'noob mode' that is off by default. The original method of using loot was far better, as well as highlighting frobbable objects (make them brighter, as opposed to giving them an atomic blue glow).
I won't keep my hopes up, I was somewhat burned by Deadly Shadows and I'm not expecting any miracles to occur this time round either.
In trials in China only one man in 100 fathered a child while on the injections,
But was that child actually his and not the postman's or milkman's (or whatever the Chinese cultural equivalent is)?
Is the parent displayed faded for anybody else?
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Is this some new feature (along with the random user private data mentioned below)?
Yeah, same here. Talk about a security problem...
No, but there's a machine in the sever room capable of Tri-teraflops.
I have a 4870 and Frotz runs on my machine at a high resolution with virtually no slowdown.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be raped by a Gnu.
The more I read and hear about this woman, the more she appears a corrupt, authoritarian douchebag.
Not theft. Infringement.
When people start making comments like this, I can't help wondering if this was someone's science project that got out into the open instead of a strain that occurred naturally.
Yeah, that or an effort from Gilead Sciences to increase sales of Tamiflu.
Not only will you have broadband, but Phorm will even track what websites you visit in order to serve adverts that are relevant to you, and the goverment will be monitoring your connection to make sure you don't inadvertently access any violent pornography and that no terrorists try to indoctrinate you. Sign me up!
There's no grater risk of injury as long you don't run near the kitchen goods section of the department store.
I am Jack's medulla oblongata.
Secondly, the Wii motion plus is rumoured to be a 20$ item or included with several upcoming Wii motion plus games, so how can it go from being 'too expensive' only a few years ago to being a 'throwaway item' now?
In the same way that a DVD burner can go from $150 to $20 in a few years time, or RAM that cost you $80 a couple of years ago is now $20. Technology becomes cheaper over time.
2) What about when a band retires and does not want to tour, how does this model work then?
Then they live off the money that they have saved up for retirement like everyone else.
I think the poster is making the mistake of trying to pigeon-hole 'pirates' into a category of tech-savvy computer nerds out to liberate the indie musicians from the suffocating embrace of the RIAA and Big Media and enforce a massive paradigm shift upon the distribution and consumption of entertainment. Sure, such a demographic is no doubt largely represented among the 20 million or whatever Pirate Bay visitors, but I'd wager that an equally significant proportion are just your typical Joe Sixpack consumer with enough technical knowledge to download a torrent - teenage girls downloading the High School Musical soundtrack, bored housewives and college students downloading the latest episode of Lost and so on. So bemoaning the fact that the 'pirates' appear to be downloading the exact mass-produced tat that the same 'pirates' are supposed to be railing against seems, to me, to be disingenuous.
On the one hand, it may seem counter-productive that the majority of media being torrented is largely big-label and megacorp product because these 'civilly disobedient' keyboard warriors decry it and should boycott it completely instead. However, on the other hand, it may help the ultimate cause of filesharers by highlighting the fact that the pirate demographic cuts huge swathes and that it is mostly normal people who don't see a problem with sharing files with eachother, rather than a bunch of fringe computer nerds who make a convenient target for media types and politicians.