Argon is a noble gas, i.e., it's inert. Nitrogen is fairly reactive. So Titanium "burns" in Nitrogen, but isn't oxidizing. I guess it's an extended definition of burning. Try Google for more information.
At worst it is a simple postpartum abortion (i.e. termination of the fetus a few weeks after birth)
I'm pro-choice, but that is stretching the definition of abortion a bit too far. Those female infants (not fetuses) are beaten to death, drowned or simply left on trashheaps to die of exposure. That's not abortion, that is murder.
In my experience, the problem with many developers whose skills are completely based on.NET is their extreme dependence on drag and drop solutions. Despite substandard coding skills, they can produce working output using the tools. The minute they need to actually code anything beyond the capability of the toolset, or to learn another (non-.NET) programming language, they're dead in the water.
Also, Microsoft certification isn't a good way to judge a person's skills. I've seen "reviewers" floating around on the Internet that are nothing more than verbatim copies of the exam questions with answers. All one has to do is memorize these reviewers. They impart no real understanding.
Just for comparison's sake. Minimum wage in the Philippines is a shade over US$6.15 a day, about US$135 a month. For fresh college graduates, entry-level IT jobs will pay between US$227 and US$379. US$800 is considered high -- junior- to mid- management-level.
All these figues are based on the current exchange rate, which according to Google is: US$ 1 = 52.8130892 Philippine pesos.
Then Blizzard decided to make an MMO. Up until that point, no monthly fee MMO had cleared even half a million subscribers.
Almost, but not entirely accurate. No western MMOG before WoW has cleared 1M subscribers. EQ, FFXI and Runescape cleared 500k subscribers. Lineage had in excess of 3M, and Lineage 2 over 2M subscribers. No clear numbers exist for Ragnarok Online, because each country/region is treated as a separate unit. >250k in Japan, >150k in the Philippines, >700 in Thailand... I'd estimate 1.5M-2M worldwide. Do note that Lineage 1/2 and RO are Korean games.
WoW was able to reach its subscriber numbers mainly because it's the first western MMOG that was able to break into the Korean and Chinese markets. Guild Wars also did this, and now has close to 2M subscribers.
The parent is not flame-baiting, just sarcastic. Please notice he mentions free operating systems as examples, to counterpoint the word "sales" as applied to MS. Get it? "Free" vs. "sales?"
>Wrong. Here's a free clue for you: understand what words like "average" mean >before you try to use them and prove yourself an idiot.
GP's usage of the word average is correct. Average is a synonym for central tendency, and is measured in different ways. The three most common ones are mean (the meaning you seem to be using), median (closer to what GP meant) and mode.
The most general definition, central tendency, works well with the GP's generalization. Besides, the statement Half of all people are below average is usually used in a humorous fashion.
The GULLIVER supplement for GURPS by T.Bone has a simplified method to calculate terminal velocity. I haven't read it in a couple of years, but AFAIR it mainly covers TV for people and creatures. Hope this helps.
What players do in their own private areas (houses, guild halls, whatever) is their own business, but in public areas, Blizzard has the full authority to define their own rules; it is, after all their own sandbox.
Technically, the entire gamespace, whether it's a house, guild hall or the middle of town, is private. It's a virtual world that exists on Blizzard's servers, with access rented out to subscribers. Being such, the usual rights people seem to think they are entitled to don't apply. Until such time that virtual worlds are defined as public spaces (and I doubt that is going to happen anytime soon), Blizzard can do pretty much whatever it wants, subject to the terms of the subscription agreement.
But the major M$ formats have stabilized in the last half-decade or so, and we're not gonna see decoders for them disappearing anytime in the foreseeable future. Everyone who wants to write a good word-processing package is going to be decoding Word 97+ for the next 50 years at least, and most importantly, when they stop including that compatibility, why should we think they'd be including compatibility for a similar standard?
Visual Studio 2005 format is incompatible with 2003. It doesn't even seem to have an export function. That's just a 2 year separation. Do you really think Microsoft formats will remain stable for 50 years?
It's precisely because you have to decode -- reverse engineer -- M$ formats that the push to ODF is being made. At the very least, it's a major reason. ODF is a public standard. If we need to read 50 year old docs in 2056, the worst case is we write a new reader, but the format spec will still be available.
Technically, Guild Wars isn't an MMORPG. It's a CORPG (competitive online RPG). You might think there's no difference, but there is. In Guild Wars, all the combat maps accomodate one party of 8 players per instance. The PvP maps take 2 teams of 8, 16 people total. The only parts of GW where you have anything approaching MM interaction are the towns, which are essentially chat/trade rooms, and PvP observer mode, also basically a chat channel.
Assuming that the old software still functions and meets the needs of the customers, and recognizing that the upgrade is for your convenience rather than theirs, a "reasonable upgrade path" would be one that is free or essentially so.
After all, it's to save you money, right?
Actually, it isn't, particularly when the product is "beyond warranty." Since the customer is paying for the support, there will come a point where the cost of getting that support will exceed the cost of upgrading.
The 3-4-5 rule for getting the grout lines square to the reference wall. Measure 3' along the outside wall, mark a small line 4' perpendicalur to that line, then from the end of the 3' measure 5' until it intersects with the 4' mark. Now you have a right angle for laying out you tile.
If you can mark a perpendicular to a line, why do you need the 3-4-5 rule to make a right angle? If you have a perpendicular then you have a right angle.
Reporters can only report what they thought they heard...
Actually, they're supposed to verify everything before they report it. It's part of something called "Journalistic Integrity" and "Responsible Journalism." Only reporting "what they thought they heard" is called rumor-mongering, not journalism.
and their editors can only correct what they know a priori.
If the editors knew about it a priori, then it wouldn't be news, now would it? Editors have the same responsibility, to verify all the facts before anything gets printed/broadcast/published/what-have-you.
Do you even code? There can be art in all aspects of the software development process, even coding. Try Googling Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham. (Or was it Painters and Hackers?:))
Programming isn't so much studying as it is applying. Programming, and in a larger sense, Software Engineering, is about the application of theories and principles to the production of software. Pure Computer Science, on the other hand, is more about extending knowledge regarding those theories and principles which govern computers and information systems.
Programming is Computer Science as Engineering is to Physics/Chemistry.
I think the central problem is the misguided assumption that art, craft and science are mutually exclusive, as are beauty and utility. As some have already stated, there can be beauty in functional things: the Lamboghini Countach, the SR-71 Blackbird, the Golden Gate Bridge.
Leonardo da Vinci is considered among the greatest artists, and yet he was a scientist, inventor and engineer.
There is such a thing as beautiful code, programs which can be considered art. Not everybody can appreciate them, just as not everybody appreciates the beauty of a fugue, a poem, a painting or an essay.
Most programmers write code to simply fulfill specifications, but the artists among us fulfill those specifications with beautiful code.
Therein lies our art.
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Argon is a noble gas, i.e., it's inert. Nitrogen is fairly reactive. So Titanium "burns" in Nitrogen, but isn't oxidizing. I guess it's an extended definition of burning. Try Google for more information.
At worst it is a simple postpartum abortion (i.e. termination of the fetus a few weeks after birth)
I'm pro-choice, but that is stretching the definition of abortion a bit too far. Those female infants (not fetuses) are beaten to death, drowned or simply left on trashheaps to die of exposure. That's not abortion, that is murder.
In my experience, the problem with many developers whose skills are completely based on .NET is their extreme dependence on drag and drop solutions. Despite substandard coding skills, they can produce working output using the tools. The minute they need to actually code anything beyond the capability of the toolset, or to learn another (non- .NET) programming language, they're dead in the water.
Also, Microsoft certification isn't a good way to judge a person's skills. I've seen "reviewers" floating around on the Internet that are nothing more than verbatim copies of the exam questions with answers. All one has to do is memorize these reviewers. They impart no real understanding.
Just for comparison's sake. Minimum wage in the Philippines is a shade over US$6.15 a day, about US$135 a month. For fresh college graduates, entry-level IT jobs will pay between US$227 and US$379. US$800 is considered high -- junior- to mid- management-level.
All these figues are based on the current exchange rate, which according to Google is: US$ 1 = 52.8130892 Philippine pesos.
Firefox 1.5.0.4 with Adblock and Filterset.G on WinXP/SP2. No popups.
Which part of effective and user freindly UI to a useful and stylish bit of hardware didn't you understand?
Then Blizzard decided to make an MMO. Up until that point, no monthly fee MMO had cleared even half a million subscribers.
Almost, but not entirely accurate. No western MMOG before WoW has cleared 1M subscribers. EQ, FFXI and Runescape cleared 500k subscribers. Lineage had in excess of 3M, and Lineage 2 over 2M subscribers. No clear numbers exist for Ragnarok Online, because each country/region is treated as a separate unit. >250k in Japan, >150k in the Philippines, >700 in Thailand... I'd estimate 1.5M-2M worldwide. Do note that Lineage 1/2 and RO are Korean games.
WoW was able to reach its subscriber numbers mainly because it's the first western MMOG that was able to break into the Korean and Chinese markets. Guild Wars also did this, and now has close to 2M subscribers.
Off-topic? Obviously the mod didn't get it.
Since you have to pay to get one, one doesn't have "inherent right" to own one. Having one is a luxury and a privilege.
The parent is not flame-baiting, just sarcastic. Please notice he mentions free operating systems as examples, to counterpoint the word "sales" as applied to MS. Get it? "Free" vs. "sales?"
>Wrong. Here's a free clue for you: understand what words like "average" mean
>before you try to use them and prove yourself an idiot.
GP's usage of the word average is correct. Average is a synonym for central tendency, and is measured in different ways. The three most common ones are mean (the meaning you seem to be using), median (closer to what GP meant) and mode.
The most general definition, central tendency, works well with the GP's generalization. Besides, the statement Half of all people are below average is usually used in a humorous fashion.
The GULLIVER supplement for GURPS by T.Bone has a simplified method to calculate terminal velocity. I haven't read it in a couple of years, but AFAIR it mainly covers TV for people and creatures. Hope this helps.
What players do in their own private areas (houses, guild halls, whatever) is their own business, but in public areas, Blizzard has the full authority to define their own rules; it is, after all their own sandbox.
Technically, the entire gamespace, whether it's a house, guild hall or the middle of town, is private. It's a virtual world that exists on Blizzard's servers, with access rented out to subscribers. Being such, the usual rights people seem to think they are entitled to don't apply. Until such time that virtual worlds are defined as public spaces (and I doubt that is going to happen anytime soon), Blizzard can do pretty much whatever it wants, subject to the terms of the subscription agreement.
But the major M$ formats have stabilized in the last half-decade or so, and we're not gonna see decoders for them disappearing anytime in the foreseeable future. Everyone who wants to write a good word-processing package is going to be decoding Word 97+ for the next 50 years at least, and most importantly, when they stop including that compatibility, why should we think they'd be including compatibility for a similar standard?
Visual Studio 2005 format is incompatible with 2003. It doesn't even seem to have an export function. That's just a 2 year separation. Do you really think Microsoft formats will remain stable for 50 years?
It's precisely because you have to decode -- reverse engineer -- M$ formats that the push to ODF is being made. At the very least, it's a major reason. ODF is a public standard. If we need to read 50 year old docs in 2056, the worst case is we write a new reader, but the format spec will still be available.
Technically, Guild Wars isn't an MMORPG. It's a CORPG (competitive online RPG). You might think there's no difference, but there is. In Guild Wars, all the combat maps accomodate one party of 8 players per instance. The PvP maps take 2 teams of 8, 16 people total. The only parts of GW where you have anything approaching MM interaction are the towns, which are essentially chat/trade rooms, and PvP observer mode, also basically a chat channel.
Assuming that the old software still functions and meets the needs of the customers, and recognizing that the upgrade is for your convenience rather than theirs, a "reasonable upgrade path" would be one that is free or essentially so.
After all, it's to save you money, right?
Actually, it isn't, particularly when the product is "beyond warranty." Since the customer is paying for the support, there will come a point where the cost of getting that support will exceed the cost of upgrading.
Love the sig, cracked me up. Thanks XD
The 3-4-5 rule for getting the grout lines square to the reference wall. Measure 3' along the outside wall, mark a small line 4' perpendicalur to that line, then from the end of the 3' measure 5' until it intersects with the 4' mark. Now you have a right angle for laying out you tile. If you can mark a perpendicular to a line, why do you need the 3-4-5 rule to make a right angle? If you have a perpendicular then you have a right angle.
Reporters can only report what they thought they heard... Actually, they're supposed to verify everything before they report it. It's part of something called "Journalistic Integrity" and "Responsible Journalism." Only reporting "what they thought they heard" is called rumor-mongering, not journalism. and their editors can only correct what they know a priori. If the editors knew about it a priori, then it wouldn't be news, now would it? Editors have the same responsibility, to verify all the facts before anything gets printed/broadcast/published/what-have-you.
Do you even code? There can be art in all aspects of the software development process, even coding. Try Googling Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham. (Or was it Painters and Hackers? :))
It's already happening. There is such a thing as Software Engineering.
Programming isn't so much studying as it is applying. Programming, and in a larger sense, Software Engineering, is about the application of theories and principles to the production of software. Pure Computer Science, on the other hand, is more about extending knowledge regarding those theories and principles which govern computers and information systems. Programming is Computer Science as Engineering is to Physics/Chemistry.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder :) Even a twelve-year old is entitled to his own definition of art.
I think the central problem is the misguided assumption that art, craft and science are mutually exclusive, as are beauty and utility. As some have already stated, there can be beauty in functional things: the Lamboghini Countach, the SR-71 Blackbird, the Golden Gate Bridge. Leonardo da Vinci is considered among the greatest artists, and yet he was a scientist, inventor and engineer. There is such a thing as beautiful code, programs which can be considered art. Not everybody can appreciate them, just as not everybody appreciates the beauty of a fugue, a poem, a painting or an essay. Most programmers write code to simply fulfill specifications, but the artists among us fulfill those specifications with beautiful code. Therein lies our art.