Agreed, any of the programs that I have written that have a splash screen because it was actually loading and doing some processing before showing the main application either a) load in no time at all, or b) take their time loading while they process the file that was used to launch the program.
Which of course leads to the question of whether the programs are actually loading anything like they say they are doing, or if they just have a timer and are sitting idle until they can start running again. My money is with the timer.
I just find it amusing that people seem to forget that women were some of the major pioneers of the computer industry - need I mention who Ada was?
Many of the early names in programmering and computer science are indeed females.
Most of the games that get a AO rating are sexuality oriented and as such are usually only found in specialty stores. For example some of the games made by Peach Princess (Link not safe for work!) are rated AO. However, most of the time a company knows ahead of time if they would be getting an AO on a game and don't even bother submitting it, and instead just put the appropriate labels on it.
That is not entirely true - US Postage stamps circulated during the Civil War as small change. However, IIRC they were never officially accepted by the federal government as official legal tender. Their acceptance as small change during the Civil War was because of the lack of coin in circulation due to hording; because postage stamps have some value (you can use them for mailing). Also, it should be noted that some postmasters would exchange the stamps that were used for currency for legal tender, but this was not official policy. It was because of this lack of small change that the federal government issued fractional notes to replace the coinage that was being horded.
Well I just RTFA and the island sold for 265,000 PED. Or in other words the island was sold with in game currency that has a 10:1 ratio to real money - meaning that the island sold for about $2,650. You can read more about the currency system here
As it turns out I got really lucky with my current assignment - working on bio-environmental programs and what not. The programming itself isn't as interesting as other things, but what you are actually working on is extremely interesting, and there is alot of various "problem solving" type things that need to be done to the systems to move them to a different operating system.
Well as someone that is in the military (USAF) I'm going to say yes and no.
It boils down to this - if you tighten bolts on a plane for 4 years and try to get a job as a programmer than you military experience is not going to count for much. However, if you write programs for 4 years as a military programmer (yes they exist, that's what my job currently is) then you have 4 years worth of experience that the other guy doesn't have, plus the military experience which can be a good thing in some situations.
But in some cases you may be a military programmer, but get screwed in terms of what you actually did - some people are called programmers but write webpage's the entire time, while others may end up writing high-end database systems. It all boils down to that magical experience again, and that partly boils down to good old fashioned luck.
It's a reference to this Magic the Gathering card. For those of you that don't play the game the card is used in several combination plays that can inflict great pain on your enemy, but more often than not it is just a 0/2 for 0 mana cannon fodder.
Sounds to me like you could go as far as to say that money itself is the "mark of the beast". Think about it - without money you are largely unable to buy or sell anything.
I am also an escapee of the Texas public education system (class of 2001) and I ended up being one of the starting sophomore classes at a newly opened high school during my 99-00 school year.
Surprise, surprise it sucked - most of the money that the school had was either being sent towards the football team (which won one game) or towards finishing the construction of the school. I had Pre-AP Computer Science that year and I knew more than the teacher and I had just started learning C++ that summer. Overall the facilities at that school where quite lousy for a brand new school, and the old school that I was forced to transfer from had a better computer science department, even though the school was over 30 years old.
Long story short - most of the schools in Texas are lousy and the resident Texan belief that Football is life means that most of the real teaching that should be done is over shadowed by mandatory "Pep" rallies.
It is doubtful that the Electoral College will ever be abolished simply because historically the president was never selected by the people. In short the way that the Electoral College used to work was that the state congress would vote for what electors to send, and they would cast their vote for the next president. Over time this was changed so that the citizens of the state vote for the electors rather than the other way around.
In short what this means is that the president is not really a representative of the citizens of the country, but rather they are representatives of the states of the country. Your congressmen are in fact your direct representatives in the national government. The president is intended to act as a check and balance against the Congress.
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.
Very true indeed, but likely to be one that you don't notice right away; but when you do you will hunting for your old calculus text book. So I would like to take something onto that: If you ever want to write any sort of graphics engines take more math then your school requires for your degree.
I'm sorry, but that is one of the worse lines I have ever heard. It is ignorant to think that there are not bad teachers, but it is also ignorant to think there are not bad students as well.
In order education to be effective both parties need to do their job - the student has to pay attention in the class, and do the course work that is presented to then. Where as the teacher is expected to know the course material, and present it to the students in a coherent matter.
If you try and teach something that you don't understand yourself then, yes, you are a bad teacher because the student may be presented mis-information and end up worse off then they were before.
There are already some industry specific programming systems - I say systems, because they are not really languages - that use flow charts and diagrams to generate instructions instead of pseudo-code or a high-level language like Visual Basic.
However, the parent does raise a valid point - many of my co-workers are good at putting widgets together and doing similar tasks, but don't really know what to do when they need to think in terms of embedded environments or program optimization.
The touch-screen system do sound more convenient, however they lead to some major questions and issues that would need to be resolved. Namely the following -
What type of fail-safes does the touch-screen system have in case of system failure (i.e. Hard drive dies, power goes out, ect) in which you can quickly recover from something unexpected happening? My understanding is that the touch-screens in the booths feed the data into a central computer that tabulates the results, so what if something happens to that central computer (say the software crashes) and some of the data is lost - are those votes just flat out lost, or are they stored in more than one place.
Which leads to the next question - what is there to ensure that my vote is counted and is not 'replaced' with a vote for a different candidate? There are several places where the vote could be changed with out any real means of determining if that did in fact occur. With most of the current systems there is some way to tell if someone tried to tamper with the vote, but with these systems you have to pretty much trust the companies system.
Well as it turns out 'Happy Birthday To You' is still copyrighted. For more information head over here and read the article. From the looks of it the song will be copyrighted until 2030.
While DVD does wear out over time, it takes alot long than VHS does. Thus, it would be a preferable medium to have the movies released on. Of course, what would prevent the studio from saving the original in some form of a file on a computer and keeping several digital backups as well?
Actually there are both articles written by the magazine. Shounen Jump usually lumps similar articles together but that doesn't mean that they will be bundled in anyway. However, considering that there will be a UMD (PSP format) version of the movie well be released I wouldn't be suppressed if a demo is included with it.
How about their being an important part of our military's mobility?
The keyword there is military, what reason does the average person have to drive a vehicle that was designed to face combat situations? It's one thing if you see a military convoy rolling down the highway driving afew Hummers, its another when you see someone that has a hard time seeing over the steering wheel driving vehicle that weights over 8500 lbs.
Remember that market value is tied to both the supply and the demand, a planet of platinum is quite likely going to cause the market to fall out because platinum isn't used in enough quantity to maintain the current value if a planet of it was found
However, it is quite likely that if something is found that's going to make people rich its either a) going to be something that is extremely rare here on Earth and quite useful for construction or b) a new way of making energy and the fuel can only be found in quantity somewhere other than on Earth.
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Agreed, any of the programs that I have written that have a splash screen because it was actually loading and doing some processing before showing the main application either a) load in no time at all, or b) take their time loading while they process the file that was used to launch the program.
Which of course leads to the question of whether the programs are actually loading anything like they say they are doing, or if they just have a timer and are sitting idle until they can start running again. My money is with the timer.
I am quite sure the parent is refering to this non-OVA series:
Aa! Megami-sama[Japanese Site]
Ah! My Goddess (TV)[English Site]
"I'll just set my coffee down here, and..."
...
"Oppsie, I hope that button wasn't anything important."
Mod parent up!
I just find it amusing that people seem to forget that women were some of the major pioneers of the computer industry - need I mention who Ada was?
Many of the early names in programmering and computer science are indeed females.
Most of the games that get a AO rating are sexuality oriented and as such are usually only found in specialty stores. For example some of the games made by Peach Princess (Link not safe for work!) are rated AO. However, most of the time a company knows ahead of time if they would be getting an AO on a game and don't even bother submitting it, and instead just put the appropriate labels on it.
I would have to look into that, but off hand perhaps that was in referance to food stamps and similar items?
That is not entirely true - US Postage stamps circulated during the Civil War as small change. However, IIRC they were never officially accepted by the federal government as official legal tender. Their acceptance as small change during the Civil War was because of the lack of coin in circulation due to hording; because postage stamps have some value (you can use them for mailing). Also, it should be noted that some postmasters would exchange the stamps that were used for currency for legal tender, but this was not official policy. It was because of this lack of small change that the federal government issued fractional notes to replace the coinage that was being horded.
/Reply to self/ Gah, I feel stupid. The island sold for 265,000 PED (26,500 USD). My math was way off, but the point is still semi-valid.
Well I just RTFA and the island sold for 265,000 PED. Or in other words the island was sold with in game currency that has a 10:1 ratio to real money - meaning that the island sold for about $2,650. You can read more about the currency system here
As it turns out I got really lucky with my current assignment - working on bio-environmental programs and what not. The programming itself isn't as interesting as other things, but what you are actually working on is extremely interesting, and there is alot of various "problem solving" type things that need to be done to the systems to move them to a different operating system.
Well as someone that is in the military (USAF) I'm going to say yes and no.
It boils down to this - if you tighten bolts on a plane for 4 years and try to get a job as a programmer than you military experience is not going to count for much. However, if you write programs for 4 years as a military programmer (yes they exist, that's what my job currently is) then you have 4 years worth of experience that the other guy doesn't have, plus the military experience which can be a good thing in some situations.
But in some cases you may be a military programmer, but get screwed in terms of what you actually did - some people are called programmers but write webpage's the entire time, while others may end up writing high-end database systems. It all boils down to that magical experience again, and that partly boils down to good old fashioned luck.
It's a reference to this Magic the Gathering card. For those of you that don't play the game the card is used in several combination plays that can inflict great pain on your enemy, but more often than not it is just a 0/2 for 0 mana cannon fodder.
Sounds to me like you could go as far as to say that money itself is the "mark of the beast". Think about it - without money you are largely unable to buy or sell anything.
I am also an escapee of the Texas public education system (class of 2001) and I ended up being one of the starting sophomore classes at a newly opened high school during my 99-00 school year.
Surprise, surprise it sucked - most of the money that the school had was either being sent towards the football team (which won one game) or towards finishing the construction of the school. I had Pre-AP Computer Science that year and I knew more than the teacher and I had just started learning C++ that summer. Overall the facilities at that school where quite lousy for a brand new school, and the old school that I was forced to transfer from had a better computer science department, even though the school was over 30 years old.
Long story short - most of the schools in Texas are lousy and the resident Texan belief that Football is life means that most of the real teaching that should be done is over shadowed by mandatory "Pep" rallies.
It is doubtful that the Electoral College will ever be abolished simply because historically the president was never selected by the people. In short the way that the Electoral College used to work was that the state congress would vote for what electors to send, and they would cast their vote for the next president. Over time this was changed so that the citizens of the state vote for the electors rather than the other way around.
In short what this means is that the president is not really a representative of the citizens of the country, but rather they are representatives of the states of the country. Your congressmen are in fact your direct representatives in the national government. The president is intended to act as a check and balance against the Congress.
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.
Very true indeed, but likely to be one that you don't notice right away; but when you do you will hunting for your old calculus text book. So I would like to take something onto that: If you ever want to write any sort of graphics engines take more math then your school requires for your degree.
I'm sorry, but that is one of the worse lines I have ever heard. It is ignorant to think that there are not bad teachers, but it is also ignorant to think there are not bad students as well.
In order education to be effective both parties need to do their job - the student has to pay attention in the class, and do the course work that is presented to then. Where as the teacher is expected to know the course material, and present it to the students in a coherent matter.
If you try and teach something that you don't understand yourself then, yes, you are a bad teacher because the student may be presented mis-information and end up worse off then they were before.
There are already some industry specific programming systems - I say systems, because they are not really languages - that use flow charts and diagrams to generate instructions instead of pseudo-code or a high-level language like Visual Basic.
However, the parent does raise a valid point - many of my co-workers are good at putting widgets together and doing similar tasks, but don't really know what to do when they need to think in terms of embedded environments or program optimization.
The touch-screen system do sound more convenient, however they lead to some major questions and issues that would need to be resolved. Namely the following -
What type of fail-safes does the touch-screen system have in case of system failure (i.e. Hard drive dies, power goes out, ect) in which you can quickly recover from something unexpected happening? My understanding is that the touch-screens in the booths feed the data into a central computer that tabulates the results, so what if something happens to that central computer (say the software crashes) and some of the data is lost - are those votes just flat out lost, or are they stored in more than one place.
Which leads to the next question - what is there to ensure that my vote is counted and is not 'replaced' with a vote for a different candidate? There are several places where the vote could be changed with out any real means of determining if that did in fact occur. With most of the current systems there is some way to tell if someone tried to tamper with the vote, but with these systems you have to pretty much trust the companies system.
Well as it turns out 'Happy Birthday To You' is still copyrighted. For more information head over here and read the article. From the looks of it the song will be copyrighted until 2030.
While DVD does wear out over time, it takes alot long than VHS does. Thus, it would be a preferable medium to have the movies released on. Of course, what would prevent the studio from saving the original in some form of a file on a computer and keeping several digital backups as well?
Actually there are both articles written by the magazine. Shounen Jump usually lumps similar articles together but that doesn't mean that they will be bundled in anyway. However, considering that there will be a UMD (PSP format) version of the movie well be released I wouldn't be suppressed if a demo is included with it.
If you want to actually see the game AdventChildren.net has a scan of the Shounen Jump article about the game. You can see the scan (direct link) here
How about their being an important part of our military's mobility?
The keyword there is military, what reason does the average person have to drive a vehicle that was designed to face combat situations? It's one thing if you see a military convoy rolling down the highway driving afew Hummers, its another when you see someone that has a hard time seeing over the steering wheel driving vehicle that weights over 8500 lbs.
Remember that market value is tied to both the supply and the demand, a planet of platinum is quite likely going to cause the market to fall out because platinum isn't used in enough quantity to maintain the current value if a planet of it was found
However, it is quite likely that if something is found that's going to make people rich its either a) going to be something that is extremely rare here on Earth and quite useful for construction or b) a new way of making energy and the fuel can only be found in quantity somewhere other than on Earth.