I remain to be convinced. I mean just looking at the hardware specs alone, PSVR is clearly VERY limited compared to PC solution. I'm actually surprised that they could even make it work in any credible way at all with just a regular PS4.
>> Currently, that's about 40% of UK citizens who've been training for that test nearly every day of their lives, ever since they learned their ABCs. Good. Its working then.
If they're not even intelligent enough to pass a simple GCSE then I certainly don't want them in charge of driving me around.
Even as a Vive owner I wouldn't be even slightly interested in watching public VR competitions. Actually I suspect that just watching someone else using VR would probably make you actively less likely to want a VR headset yourself. It seems clear to me that people have to personally experience VR first-hand (in a roomscale not just a seated way) in order to understand how actually cool VR is. Anything else just looks dorky and wierd and doesn't convey the sensation at all.
Agent> So where would you find an abstract class? Geek> What language? Agent> Are you trying to sass me son? English! try again.... Geek> umm.... Wherever you defined it? Agent> Thats not what I have here. Geek> In RAM? Agent> Final chance Geek> Ummm...your question is meaningless.... Agent> The correct answer is: page 267 of "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup . Off to Gitmo with you! Geek> aargh!
> they are owned by Facebook, remember? They are in zero financial trouble.
I guess it depends on Zuckerberg/the Facebook board but most "normal" companies (and I do understand that Facebook isn't one) wouldn't keep funding/supporting a loss-making subsidiary for long.
Seems like yet more evidence that Oculus must be in serious financial trouble, probably both from their Zenimax lawsuit and from Valve/Steam/Vive significantly outselling them.
>> Karla Monterroso, [...] This means companies tend to favor recent computer science grads from top-tier schools who have had time to cram; in other words, it doesn't help diversify the field with women, older people, and people of color....or you could make the far more accurate argument that it works against people that are using whatever lame peecee excuse to dismiss the fact that they haven't actually bothered to learn their subject.
BTW as an "older" engineer myself, I am happy to not get a job if I can't sufficiently demonstrate that I actually do know my shit, and I resent liberal peecee morons like her trying to grouplabel and speak for me.
>> Do you grill a Lawyer on case law from the 1920s during an interview?
I don't know the answer but I'd bet that if they did ask any case law questions, it may well be something that was actually decided in the 1920s or even before. I think the real factor here is that is it still current, not when was it invented.
Similarly, you may be a web programmer who thinks bubble sorts are old school and irrelevant because you don't personally use them, and would see nothing wrong with dragging in some bloated heavyweight API just for a bubble sort if you ever needed to, but as an embedded programmer who is used to working on PICs etc where you can't just drag in the kitchen sink, I can tell you that many engineers are still writing code to implement simple stuff like that every day.
I'm frankly amazed that apparently no-one replying here can even write a simple bubble sort. yes I know that in the real world it makes no sense to reinvent the wheel, and that most modern languages/extensions/toolkits would already have something more optimized available, but still a bubble sort should be a pretty basic problem for anyone with a CS degree or anyone that calls themself a software developer.
I'd like to think this sort of thing will make a difference but I'm afraid any positive efforts will just be totally overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of incompetent/clueless HR departments that habitually outsource to even more incompetent web-based companies that claim to reduce applicants skills to a single score through automated tasting based on badly worded/ambiguous coding questions etc.
As a Brit I honestly can't imagine how. All the kids born in the UK I've ever met can, even those from the most insular non-english-speaking communities.
So what is the other 50%? The article seems ambiguous on this point at best. I find it hard to believe that the whole other 50% was just salt and spices, not least because of how bland Subway chicken actually is.
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I remain to be convinced.
I mean just looking at the hardware specs alone, PSVR is clearly VERY limited compared to PC solution. I'm actually surprised that they could even make it work in any credible way at all with just a regular PS4.
>> Currently, that's about 40% of UK citizens who've been training for that test nearly every day of their lives, ever since they learned their ABCs.
Good. Its working then.
If they're not even intelligent enough to pass a simple GCSE then I certainly don't want them in charge of driving me around.
Even as a Vive owner I wouldn't be even slightly interested in watching public VR competitions. Actually I suspect that just watching someone else using VR would probably make you actively less likely to want a VR headset yourself.
It seems clear to me that people have to personally experience VR first-hand (in a roomscale not just a seated way) in order to understand how actually cool VR is. Anything else just looks dorky and wierd and doesn't convey the sensation at all.
Ah he was talking about the original first draft of the book, because it was also a singleton.
Agent> So where would you find an abstract class?
Geek> What language?
Agent> Are you trying to sass me son? English! try again....
Geek> umm.... Wherever you defined it?
Agent> Thats not what I have here.
Geek> In RAM?
Agent> Final chance
Geek> Ummm...your question is meaningless....
Agent> The correct answer is: page 267 of "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup . Off to Gitmo with you!
Geek> aargh!
Just write a whole bunch of hexadecimal numbers and claim it is machine code for a new processor you're helping to develop.
>> The Playstation VR is arguably the best from this generation
By what metric? If just by # of users then OK, but as a VR experience it sucks compared to Rift/Vive.
>> Oculus is still overpriced by about 60% with its new $800 list price.
I think you're confused about the pricing, Vive is $799, Rift including Touch is now $598.
> they are owned by Facebook, remember? They are in zero financial trouble.
I guess it depends on Zuckerberg/the Facebook board but most "normal" companies (and I do understand that Facebook isn't one) wouldn't keep funding/supporting a loss-making subsidiary for long.
Seems like yet more evidence that Oculus must be in serious financial trouble, probably both from their Zenimax lawsuit and from Valve/Steam/Vive significantly outselling them.
>> Karla Monterroso, [...] This means companies tend to favor recent computer science grads from top-tier schools who have had time to cram; in other words, it doesn't help diversify the field with women, older people, and people of color. ...or you could make the far more accurate argument that it works against people that are using whatever lame peecee excuse to dismiss the fact that they haven't actually bothered to learn their subject.
BTW as an "older" engineer myself, I am happy to not get a job if I can't sufficiently demonstrate that I actually do know my shit, and I resent liberal peecee morons like her trying to grouplabel and speak for me.
I for one totally agree with your point and am already more than fed up with the obvious double standards in our society.
>> Do you grill a Lawyer on case law from the 1920s during an interview?
I don't know the answer but I'd bet that if they did ask any case law questions, it may well be something that was actually decided in the 1920s or even before. I think the real factor here is that is it still current, not when was it invented.
Similarly, you may be a web programmer who thinks bubble sorts are old school and irrelevant because you don't personally use them, and would see nothing wrong with dragging in some bloated heavyweight API just for a bubble sort if you ever needed to, but as an embedded programmer who is used to working on PICs etc where you can't just drag in the kitchen sink, I can tell you that many engineers are still writing code to implement simple stuff like that every day.
I'm frankly amazed that apparently no-one replying here can even write a simple bubble sort.
yes I know that in the real world it makes no sense to reinvent the wheel, and that most modern languages/extensions/toolkits would already have something more optimized available, but still a bubble sort should be a pretty basic problem for anyone with a CS degree or anyone that calls themself a software developer.
I'd like to think this sort of thing will make a difference but I'm afraid any positive efforts will just be totally overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of incompetent/clueless HR departments that habitually outsource to even more incompetent web-based companies that claim to reduce applicants skills to a single score through automated tasting based on badly worded/ambiguous coding questions etc.
I can't imagine how you can claim that Islam does not imply Sharia law given Sharia law, or Islamic law (Arabic: ØرÙSØØ©âZâZ (IPA: [ÊfaËriËÊa])) is the religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition.
take a look at this from the Islamic Supreme Council:
http://www.islamicsupremecounc...
Its absolutely clear that Sharia (Islamic Law) and Islam (the religion) are absolutely intertwined to the point of being the same thing.
As a Brit I honestly can't imagine how. All the kids born in the UK I've ever met can, even those from the most insular non-english-speaking communities.
Why can't they just learn the fucking language of they country they live in?
>> I provided a link with comparison of equivalencies, which lists B1 as "British general qualifications: GCE AS level / lower grade A-level".
Once again:
From the article:
"Drivers must have B1 level English, or the equivalent of a GCSE in the subject".
GCSE is the qualification you do exams at 16 to get. You need to do another 2 years of full time study on top of that to get an A level.
So what is the other 50%?
The article seems ambiguous on this point at best.
I find it hard to believe that the whole other 50% was just salt and spices, not least because of how bland Subway chicken actually is.
I'm from the south west of England yet for some reason here in Arizona more people I meet the first time think I'm from Australia than UK.
>> It's not really about English language skills. It's about reducing immigration.
Please cite an actual reference (i.e. not just an opinion piece).
What? her being the only female in a meeting room with 50 guys is illegal? Please cite references.
Try not posting as AC.
> Islam does not imply Sharia
Imply? no. Its far more explicit than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Spineless Troll.