In my area (Richardson, TX), there are plenty of internships to be had, though that varies from region to region. It sounds like you're on the right track, learning languages and skills above and beyond what the school teaches, as that's what's going to make you stand out from the other 200 applicants. Here at UTD, anyone who's taken principles of Unix is going to have a basic knowledge of PERL and will have written the back-end to a web server of some sort (the semester I took it, we wrote an airline reservation system). However, students fluent in.NET are few and far between here as there are no CS classes that teach it. That extra knowledge only helped me land the internship, but it also helped me excel at the internship.
That, and on all those games except Warcraft III, the performance hit probably is hardly if at all noticable. After all, Diablo II has been out for nearly 8 years now! Blizzard games are about as fun as it gets, but WC III and WoW are the only two that come even close to requiring modern hardware.
Exactly what I'd like to see. In World of Warcraft, I'd love it if I could move my status, inventory, etc. on to my secondary monitor, leaving only my HP and combat menu to obscure the game world (and only leave those on the primary becuase they're frequently needed in a hurry during combat).
I don't know about many games, but I seem to recall Blizzard stating that World of Warcraft will work with any resolution 800x600 or higher you throw at it, and specifically mentioning the Dell and Apple 30" monitors as included in that statement. The only caveat is, of course, more pixels = lower framerate, so if you want insane resolutions, you better have insane video cards to match.
I'm going to assume for sake of simplicity that all values are stored in cents so that integers can be used. Using floating points increases the overhead and the strength of my argument along with it.
Here's why: The maximum value an unsigned 32-bit integer can hold is approximately 4.29 billion. 47 billion dollars is 4.7 trillion cents, and to store that number, you need a 64-bit integer. According to prior posters, the IRS's system was implemented back in the early 70s. IIRC, 32-bit processors were still a long way coming at that point, so a 32-bit integer was probably a long data type in those days. A 64-bit integer would be out of the question. This wasn't much of an issue back then, nor is it today. How many Americans have numbers anywhere close to 40 billion cents on their taxes? So, they have a few special computers that can handle 64-bit integers for the few special cases, and stick with their ancient maCHines that still get the job done for everyone else.
And the "programmers" who just click wizards all day are going to be the first to go overseas. Who's still going to have jobs when the dust settles? Those who have intimate knowledge of algorithm design and complexity, those who know how to write well organized and readable object oriented code, those who understand at a very deep level how distributed operating systems work, and those who understand every intricacy of the Internet. In other words, those with Masters in Computer Science degrees.
I've had a few professors do that, and it's great! I actually really enjoy presenting my programs to my professors simply because, when I've just spent an entire week writing a program to balance the workload between 20 servers, I like getting a little more feedback than just a 96 showing up on WebCT a week later.
I've been building computers for years, yet I just recently bought a Dell Dimension XPS. Why not just build one?
A) Warranty. My XPS has a four year unlimited warranty with next day on-site service. If any part of it ever breaks within 4 years, I know exactly who to call, and I know I'm covered. No having to worry about if the part in question had a 90 day, 1 year, etc. warranty or if the warranting company is reputable enough to repair/replace it in a timely manner.
B) Time. Being an undergrad student taking PhD courses and working 20 hours a week at the time, my time was VERY limited (and still is). I'd much rather sit down at Dell's website and spend 30 minutes configuring the perfect machine than spend hours upon hours hunting down the parts and then several more hours assembling them. Point A also applies here, if it ever breaks, not my problem. I give Dell a call and they take it from there. No wasted weekends (and money) diagnosing and fixing the problem. I have better things to do with my time.
C) Thanks to my student discount, it wasn't much more expensive than the parts for a comparable machine would have been.
And it worked great right out of the box! Sure, it had software I didn't want, but that didn't seem to interefere with my gaming. It wasn't until a few weeks later that I bothered reinstalling a clean copy of the OS, and even that was mostly just because I wanted to use Pro instead of Home.
I don't know what these guys are talking about. I'm in the US, and I've bought for myself and friends a number of Dells over the past two years, and they've all come with clean Windows XP SP2 CDs. The drivers are on a seperate disc, and the additional software is on yet more discs. The only difference between these systems' Windows XP CDs and retail Windows XP CDs is the label, and my XPS's XP CD has the SATA drivers slipstreamed so you don't need a floppy drive.
So you're telling me the appeal of Smash Brothers is single player and multiplayer is just a nice extra? Sorry, but you're wrong. Single player is the nice extra. Off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen or so people I know who have played mutliplayer Smash Brothers but have never touched (or care about) single player.
And I've played multiplayer Halo but not single player.
Actually, laptop harddrives generally really are slower. I can't believe how many vendors still ship their laptops with 4200 RPM drives, even in their top of the line machines. I plopped a 7200 RPM Hitachi Travelstar in my Presario notebook, and the speed increase is insane. Battery life didn't drop too much either, probably because once the disc is spinning, the energy needed to keep it spinning isn't much greater.
Consumers will see cool new features -- imagine four live pictures on a screen at once -- instant channel changes and more options for on-demand video rentals, including high-definition content.
Who'd of thought we'd ever be able to instantly change channels without having to wait for a keyframe? Oh wait, my 20 year old Sony Trinitron did that, as does my 1 year old Wega...
In response to your comments about paying when you take months off, that's not an issue with WoW. If you stop paying, your account is deactivated, but all your characters and items and stuff are retained. If you want to spend the summer off outdoors, fine, cancel your subscription before the June payment is made, then when you return home in August, start it up again. You'll be right where you left off. In fact, you'll even be rewarded with double XP from monsters for the next level and a half for each of your characters below the max level!
I don't know of any where your minutes flat out don't expire, but Tracfone does allow you to purchase a 150 minute 1 year card which ensures that any minutes on your account (including ones added after the 1 year card) don't expire until a year after you activate it. If you average less than 10 minutes or so per day, it comes out cheaper than getting a plan.
Of course, the PSP still lacks the touch screen, so the DS has that edge. I don't believe the PSP has a mic either, but I'm not positive. I know the PSP can't touch the DS with a 10 foot pole with regards to loading time. It takes the DS roughly 1 second to boot, and the game starts immediately. The PSP takes roughly 20 seconds to boot, and then several more seconds to load the game after that.
It seems the only place PSP is superior is screen size and the resolution of its one screen, though the DS's second screen couters that, as there are certinaly things you can do with two smaller screens that you can't do with one large screen.
I'm not sure what causes it, but you can fix it by resizing the text after the page has finished downloading. Just hold ctrl and scroll up or down with your mouse's scroll wheel.
Cell phones only get 20-30 hours when they are in standby mode doing nothing. Cell phone battery life tends to drop to just a couple of hours when actually in use, and playing/rendering 3D games uses far more power than talking on a cell phone.
Extended battery life? The only battery related question he didn't dodge was whether the device could play a single movie. It sounds to me like the PSP suffers the same battery delima as the Game Gear.
I'm a student of the university. The wireless is less than decent in several of the apartment buildings (very weak to no signal strength in bedrooms, for example). Many apartments choose to get a broadband connection and share it between the occupants. They than can either run Cat-5 all over the place, or can get their own wireless router to share the connection. If you don't care about file sharing speed, the choice is obvious.
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Nice! Good to know, thanks.
How about adding space to an array without losing the existing data?
VB.NET
Dim x as int[10]
'Populate x
Redim x as int[20]
C#
int[] x = new int[10];
//Populate x
int[] temp = new int[20];
for (int a=0 ; a<10 ; a++)
{
temp = x[a];
}
x = temp;
VB.Net is the clear winner here, requiring only one simple line of code and no loops.
In my area (Richardson, TX), there are plenty of internships to be had, though that varies from region to region. It sounds like you're on the right track, learning languages and skills above and beyond what the school teaches, as that's what's going to make you stand out from the other 200 applicants. Here at UTD, anyone who's taken principles of Unix is going to have a basic knowledge of PERL and will have written the back-end to a web server of some sort (the semester I took it, we wrote an airline reservation system). However, students fluent in .NET are few and far between here as there are no CS classes that teach it. That extra knowledge only helped me land the internship, but it also helped me excel at the internship.
Do you have a source?
That, and on all those games except Warcraft III, the performance hit probably is hardly if at all noticable. After all, Diablo II has been out for nearly 8 years now! Blizzard games are about as fun as it gets, but WC III and WoW are the only two that come even close to requiring modern hardware.
Exactly what I'd like to see. In World of Warcraft, I'd love it if I could move my status, inventory, etc. on to my secondary monitor, leaving only my HP and combat menu to obscure the game world (and only leave those on the primary becuase they're frequently needed in a hurry during combat).
I don't know about many games, but I seem to recall Blizzard stating that World of Warcraft will work with any resolution 800x600 or higher you throw at it, and specifically mentioning the Dell and Apple 30" monitors as included in that statement. The only caveat is, of course, more pixels = lower framerate, so if you want insane resolutions, you better have insane video cards to match.
I'm going to assume for sake of simplicity that all values are stored in cents so that integers can be used. Using floating points increases the overhead and the strength of my argument along with it.
Here's why: The maximum value an unsigned 32-bit integer can hold is approximately 4.29 billion. 47 billion dollars is 4.7 trillion cents, and to store that number, you need a 64-bit integer. According to prior posters, the IRS's system was implemented back in the early 70s. IIRC, 32-bit processors were still a long way coming at that point, so a 32-bit integer was probably a long data type in those days. A 64-bit integer would be out of the question. This wasn't much of an issue back then, nor is it today. How many Americans have numbers anywhere close to 40 billion cents on their taxes? So, they have a few special computers that can handle 64-bit integers for the few special cases, and stick with their ancient maCHines that still get the job done for everyone else.
And the "programmers" who just click wizards all day are going to be the first to go overseas. Who's still going to have jobs when the dust settles? Those who have intimate knowledge of algorithm design and complexity, those who know how to write well organized and readable object oriented code, those who understand at a very deep level how distributed operating systems work, and those who understand every intricacy of the Internet. In other words, those with Masters in Computer Science degrees.
I've had a few professors do that, and it's great! I actually really enjoy presenting my programs to my professors simply because, when I've just spent an entire week writing a program to balance the workload between 20 servers, I like getting a little more feedback than just a 96 showing up on WebCT a week later.
I've been building computers for years, yet I just recently bought a Dell Dimension XPS. Why not just build one?
A) Warranty. My XPS has a four year unlimited warranty with next day on-site service. If any part of it ever breaks within 4 years, I know exactly who to call, and I know I'm covered. No having to worry about if the part in question had a 90 day, 1 year, etc. warranty or if the warranting company is reputable enough to repair/replace it in a timely manner.
B) Time. Being an undergrad student taking PhD courses and working 20 hours a week at the time, my time was VERY limited (and still is). I'd much rather sit down at Dell's website and spend 30 minutes configuring the perfect machine than spend hours upon hours hunting down the parts and then several more hours assembling them. Point A also applies here, if it ever breaks, not my problem. I give Dell a call and they take it from there. No wasted weekends (and money) diagnosing and fixing the problem. I have better things to do with my time.
C) Thanks to my student discount, it wasn't much more expensive than the parts for a comparable machine would have been.
And it worked great right out of the box! Sure, it had software I didn't want, but that didn't seem to interefere with my gaming. It wasn't until a few weeks later that I bothered reinstalling a clean copy of the OS, and even that was mostly just because I wanted to use Pro instead of Home.
I don't know what these guys are talking about. I'm in the US, and I've bought for myself and friends a number of Dells over the past two years, and they've all come with clean Windows XP SP2 CDs. The drivers are on a seperate disc, and the additional software is on yet more discs. The only difference between these systems' Windows XP CDs and retail Windows XP CDs is the label, and my XPS's XP CD has the SATA drivers slipstreamed so you don't need a floppy drive.
Haven't seen anything on iChat AV.
So you're telling me the appeal of Smash Brothers is single player and multiplayer is just a nice extra? Sorry, but you're wrong. Single player is the nice extra. Off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen or so people I know who have played mutliplayer Smash Brothers but have never touched (or care about) single player. And I've played multiplayer Halo but not single player.
Actually, laptop harddrives generally really are slower. I can't believe how many vendors still ship their laptops with 4200 RPM drives, even in their top of the line machines. I plopped a 7200 RPM Hitachi Travelstar in my Presario notebook, and the speed increase is insane. Battery life didn't drop too much either, probably because once the disc is spinning, the energy needed to keep it spinning isn't much greater.
Consumers will see cool new features -- imagine four live pictures on a screen at once -- instant channel changes and more options for on-demand video rentals, including high-definition content.
Who'd of thought we'd ever be able to instantly change channels without having to wait for a keyframe? Oh wait, my 20 year old Sony Trinitron did that, as does my 1 year old Wega...
In response to your comments about paying when you take months off, that's not an issue with WoW. If you stop paying, your account is deactivated, but all your characters and items and stuff are retained. If you want to spend the summer off outdoors, fine, cancel your subscription before the June payment is made, then when you return home in August, start it up again. You'll be right where you left off. In fact, you'll even be rewarded with double XP from monsters for the next level and a half for each of your characters below the max level!
I don't know of any where your minutes flat out don't expire, but Tracfone does allow you to purchase a 150 minute 1 year card which ensures that any minutes on your account (including ones added after the 1 year card) don't expire until a year after you activate it. If you average less than 10 minutes or so per day, it comes out cheaper than getting a plan.
Of course, the PSP still lacks the touch screen, so the DS has that edge. I don't believe the PSP has a mic either, but I'm not positive. I know the PSP can't touch the DS with a 10 foot pole with regards to loading time. It takes the DS roughly 1 second to boot, and the game starts immediately. The PSP takes roughly 20 seconds to boot, and then several more seconds to load the game after that. It seems the only place PSP is superior is screen size and the resolution of its one screen, though the DS's second screen couters that, as there are certinaly things you can do with two smaller screens that you can't do with one large screen.
The article explicitly states that it won't work on the GBA, but on ly the GBA:SP and the DS.
Forget gradually, just skyrocket them. It's not like most businesses could just ditch there .coms.
I'm not sure what causes it, but you can fix it by resizing the text after the page has finished downloading. Just hold ctrl and scroll up or down with your mouse's scroll wheel.
Cell phones only get 20-30 hours when they are in standby mode doing nothing. Cell phone battery life tends to drop to just a couple of hours when actually in use, and playing/rendering 3D games uses far more power than talking on a cell phone.
let alone the extended battery life
Extended battery life? The only battery related question he didn't dodge was whether the device could play a single movie. It sounds to me like the PSP suffers the same battery delima as the Game Gear.
I'm a student of the university. The wireless is less than decent in several of the apartment buildings (very weak to no signal strength in bedrooms, for example). Many apartments choose to get a broadband connection and share it between the occupants. They than can either run Cat-5 all over the place, or can get their own wireless router to share the connection. If you don't care about file sharing speed, the choice is obvious.