>> EA has a good policy for accepting programmers without 5+ years of >>experiance so they end up with a large number of fresh grads working >>for lower wages because they are still wet behind the ears.
while this is nice for the youngsters to "get their foot in the door", it is kind of is suspicious, don't you think? why do you think these fresh green pups had to work so many long hours? could it be inexperience?
on the other hand, I know this problem is not ALL fresh young pups... stupid managers can really kill a project and its people. but again on the other hand, when a non-technical manager can only get advice from the youngsters, that's a problem too.
What do we learn?
- It's a problem to have all young people. You really want a mix on your team to balance fresh ideas and experience. Perhaps something like 1/3 of senior, mid, and junior. (only a guess)
- It's a problem to have managers think that they can cut corners by hiring young people only. It's a problem if that manager doesn't have a clue by themselves and they're taking advice from young people, who don't reliably have a clue (sometimes do, sometimes don't)...
Sceptre also makes a 42" 1080p. It's quite nice once you tape over the annoying blue LEDs on it, remove the ugly speakers, and calibrate the picture (contrast is too high out of the factory and the auto contrast/color settings trash the picture).
>>you get to drive an airboat, solve physics puzzles, throw barrels, drive a >>buggy, move planks, order insects around, follow a girl, set up robotic guns, >>and throw guys like ragdolls.
And these are bad things to have in an FPS? Sounds immersive to me...
I guess the die-hard counterstrike, sneak-and-be-killed-in-one-shot type of person might not like it because sometimes they have to *gasp* do something other than sneak and shoot... but as an immersive world, adventure, story, gameplay, and as an fps, it stands up well and is quite an experiece and worth playing.
"The earth is flat" - is analogous to - "We should pray to make things better"...
two scenarios - who knows, maybe the world is flat. Oh, we've proven it's round? oh... - who knows, maybe praying does nothing. Oh, you say we've proven it does nothing? cool...
did the results of the study surprise you? I mean. Since when does thinking wishful thoughts make anything happen? Apart from the small impact due to lower stress levels, endorphin release, due to mediation/calming effects...
And... since everyone has different thoughts about prayer/meditation, and I imagine it varies wildly from religeon to religeon and region to region, a study of this type would have to be very widespread to determine the impact from calming/endorphin effects... to include a very diverse range of people... i.e. do the study in some mainly secular state, or one where the relious are all fakers (you know who you are), and you probably wont see a lot of effect due to mental excercises (i.e. if you don't believe it, you wont be calmed by your meditation)...
anyway, this study doesn't really surprise me. should it?
Mantis is cool. it's kinda source forgey, and you get to run it yourself on your own server. customization of certain things is possible and they're improving it all the time. I found customization of the views (i.e. the columns you see when viewing all your bugs) wasn't supported and you had to hack PHP files. though who knows, maybe they'll fix that soon too (or already!)...
There's also Gforge, which aims to be like sourceforge, though last I tried to use it I felt confused, which was maybe like 3 years ago, so maybe it's good now...
The coolest part is how he describes the evolution of the eye, in terms of real living creatures we can observe today, in very small increments of functionality.
Richard Dawkin's "Climbing Mount Improbable"
Amazon review... "While an enzyme molecule or an eye might seem supremely improbable in their complexity, they are not accidental, nor need we assume that they are the designed handiwork of a Creator, asserts Oxford biologist Dawkins (The Selfish Gene). This foremost neo-Darwinian exponent explains the dazzling array of living things as the result of natural selection?the slow, cumulative, one-step-at-a-time, non-random survival of chance variants. Both a frontal assault on creationism and an enthralling tour of the natural world, this beautifully illustrated study is based on a set of BBC lectures, imparting a tone at once conversational and magisterial. Dawkins explores how ordered complexity arose by discussing spiders' web-building techniques, the gradual evolution of elephant trunks and of wings (birds, he concludes, evolved from two-legged dinosaurs, not from tree gliders) and the symbiotic relationship between the 900 species of figs and their sole genetic companions, the miniature wasps that pollinate specific fig species. Using "computer biomorphs" (simulated creatures "bred" from a common ancestor), Dawkins demonstrates how varieties of the same plant or animal species can vary in shape because of differences in just a few genes."
quote: " Copying copyrighted motion picture and music files using unauthorized peer-to-peer services is illegal and is prosecuted by copyright owners."
Since when do p2p services have to be "authorized" and with whom do they have to "register" with to become authorized?
err. why is this modded offtopic? These guys are _using_ the bittorrent name. So they should be using the technology, right?
I'm asking...
- are they using the name of the popular P2P software - bittorrent - in their advertising. while peddling something completely different?
- Or are they creating brand new technology here?
so is this bittorrent for firefox, or something else? i.e. is it some proprietary thing, or is it an interface to bittorrent? (are they using standards or trying to make some comericial proprietary thing). anyone know what allpeers is all about?
you're assuming it's the caffine that helps. Maybe it's the coffee or the tea. I wonder if decaf would still have a positive effect. maybe I should RTFA to find out...
Google is in the business of growth and innovation. Most companies sell proven products (i.e. cell phone). In those companies engineers would likely bungle the heavy hitting business aspects. In google they have little or no competition for "new work", and to have "new work" you need an engineer to both create the product and suggest to the non-thinkers how they could possibly market it. Essentially engineers are in charge because they have to be or google wouldn't exist.
Well as long as slashdot's giving free advertising to bands now... Mine's been up creative commons for 4 years now... check it out http://www.subatomicglue.com/
There certainly has been bands putting up music way before that as well. Is this news? or free advertising
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>> EA has a good policy for accepting programmers without 5+ years of
>>experiance so they end up with a large number of fresh grads working
>>for lower wages because they are still wet behind the ears.
while this is nice for the youngsters to "get their foot in the door", it is kind of is suspicious, don't you think? why do you think these fresh green pups had to work so many long hours? could it be inexperience?
on the other hand, I know this problem is not ALL fresh young pups... stupid managers can really kill a project and its people. but again on the other hand, when a non-technical manager can only get advice from the youngsters, that's a problem too.
What do we learn?
- It's a problem to have all young people. You really want a mix on your team to balance fresh ideas and experience. Perhaps something like 1/3 of senior, mid, and junior. (only a guess)
- It's a problem to have managers think that they can cut corners by hiring young people only. It's a problem if that manager doesn't have a clue by themselves and they're taking advice from young people, who don't reliably have a clue (sometimes do, sometimes don't)...
Sceptre also makes a 42" 1080p.
It's quite nice once you tape over the annoying blue LEDs on it, remove the ugly speakers, and calibrate the picture (contrast is too high out of the factory and the auto contrast/color settings trash the picture).
>>you get to drive an airboat, solve physics puzzles, throw barrels, drive a
>>buggy, move planks, order insects around, follow a girl, set up robotic guns,
>>and throw guys like ragdolls.
And these are bad things to have in an FPS?
Sounds immersive to me...
I guess the die-hard counterstrike, sneak-and-be-killed-in-one-shot type of person might not like it because sometimes they have to *gasp* do something other than sneak and shoot... but as an immersive world, adventure, story, gameplay, and as an fps, it stands up well and is quite an experiece and worth playing.
and I didn't even mention graphics...
wow guys, less talking, more suggesting apps:
audio apps:
- flstudio
- reason
- nuendo
- sonar
- ableton
- plogue bidule
- buzz
- renoise
- reaktor
- and the plethora of VST synths available (waldorf attack, izotope trash, quad frohmage, guitarrig, moog modular, minimoog, absynth3, etc...)
I agree...
"The earth is flat" - is analogous to - "We should pray to make things better"...
two scenarios
- who knows, maybe the world is flat. Oh, we've proven it's round? oh...
- who knows, maybe praying does nothing. Oh, you say we've proven it does nothing? cool...
move along nothing to see here...
did the results of the study surprise you?
I mean. Since when does thinking wishful thoughts make anything happen?
Apart from the small impact due to lower stress levels, endorphin release, due to mediation/calming effects...
And... since everyone has different thoughts about prayer/meditation, and I imagine it varies wildly from religeon to religeon and region to region, a study of this type would have to be very widespread to determine the impact from calming/endorphin effects... to include a very diverse range of people... i.e. do the study in some mainly secular state, or one where the relious are all fakers (you know who you are), and you probably wont see a lot of effect due to mental excercises (i.e. if you don't believe it, you wont be calmed by your meditation)...
anyway, this study doesn't really surprise me. should it?
having version control integrated into explorer greatly simplifies workflow, especially on largescale projects with deep folder trees.
Tools like TortoiseSVN/CVS or perforce's explorer integration are Key for this reason alone.
I mean, why else would I find a $22 cd at musicland/samgoody?
freakin rediculous. and they wonder why people pirate.
The price point is right around $10.
Make it that, and I will buy CDs again.
It's that simple.
I mean, why else would I find a $22 cd at musicland/samgoody?
freakin rediculous. and they wonder why people pirate.
The price point is right around $10.
Make it that, and I will buy CDs again.
It's that simple.
google meme theory, and you'll find you're not joking... :)
Mantis is cool.
it's kinda source forgey, and you get to run it yourself on your own server.
customization of certain things is possible and they're improving it all the time.
I found customization of the views (i.e. the columns you see when viewing all your bugs) wasn't supported and you had to hack PHP files. though who knows, maybe they'll fix that soon too (or already!)...
There's also Gforge, which aims to be like sourceforge, though last I tried to use it I felt confused, which was maybe like 3 years ago, so maybe it's good now...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393316823/sr=8-8 /qid=1139811019/ref=pd_bbs_8/104-2445523-0884742?_ encoding=UTF8
The coolest part is how he describes the evolution of the eye, in terms of real living creatures we can observe today, in very small increments of functionality.
Richard Dawkin's "Climbing Mount Improbable"
Amazon review...
"While an enzyme molecule or an eye might seem supremely improbable in their complexity, they are not accidental, nor need we assume that they are the designed handiwork of a Creator, asserts Oxford biologist Dawkins (The Selfish Gene). This foremost neo-Darwinian exponent explains the dazzling array of living things as the result of natural selection?the slow, cumulative, one-step-at-a-time, non-random survival of chance variants. Both a frontal assault on creationism and an enthralling tour of the natural world, this beautifully illustrated study is based on a set of BBC lectures, imparting a tone at once conversational and magisterial. Dawkins explores how ordered complexity arose by discussing spiders' web-building techniques, the gradual evolution of elephant trunks and of wings (birds, he concludes, evolved from two-legged dinosaurs, not from tree gliders) and the symbiotic relationship between the 900 species of figs and their sole genetic companions, the miniature wasps that pollinate specific fig species. Using "computer biomorphs" (simulated creatures "bred" from a common ancestor), Dawkins demonstrates how varieties of the same plant or animal species can vary in shape because of differences in just a few genes."
so does anyone know what is "earthlike" about a planet that is too cold to live on?
I'm guessing it has to do with the observed spectrum from the planet indicating the right checmical components...
i've got 9-10 yr old discs, work just fine.
weird...
who uses only one source of info in their thesis?
who uses an encyclopedia solely as their thesis source?
wow. don't they have libraries in china?
quote: " Copying copyrighted motion picture and music files
using unauthorized peer-to-peer services is illegal and is
prosecuted by copyright owners."
Since when do p2p services have to be "authorized" and with whom do they have to "register" with to become authorized?
p2p services themselves aren't illegal, it's the users doing illegal things.
so does the bittorrent authors know or care that Allpeers is using their name in their advertising?
Anyone know if these two struck a deal, or if Allpeers is just using the bittorrent name to get eyes on their new product?
I think I read Allpeers is encrypted, and if i remember corrently BT is not (I could be wrong).
Yes but is this "free" software compatible with BT?
That's the real question.
I think I read they're using encryption, which if I remember correctly, BT doesn't have...
err. why is this modded offtopic? These guys are _using_ the bittorrent name. So they should be using the technology, right?
I'm asking...
- are they using the name of the popular P2P software - bittorrent - in their advertising. while peddling something completely different?
- Or are they creating brand new technology here?
Also... will the software be free?
All relevent important questions, imho....
so is this bittorrent for firefox, or something else?
i.e. is it some proprietary thing, or is it an interface to bittorrent?
(are they using standards or trying to make some comericial proprietary thing).
anyone know what allpeers is all about?
you're assuming it's the caffine that helps.
Maybe it's the coffee or the tea.
I wonder if decaf would still have a positive effect.
maybe I should RTFA to find out...
Google is in the business of growth and innovation. Most companies sell proven products (i.e. cell phone). In those companies engineers would likely bungle the heavy hitting business aspects. In google they have little or no competition for "new work", and to have "new work" you need an engineer to both create the product and suggest to the non-thinkers how they could possibly market it. Essentially engineers are in charge because they have to be or google wouldn't exist.
Just my take on it....
IMHO this is good for max, bad for maya. Maya's solid in the interface as well as the API and scripting interfaces.
apparently autodesk wants alias' film rapid prototying technologys for their automotive industries.
it has 16 "pipes", while nvidia has 24 "pipes"...
I assume this means instruction pipelines? which would suggest ATI can do 16 instructions in parallel while nvidia can do 24...
Well as long as slashdot's giving free advertising to bands now...
Mine's been up creative commons for 4 years now... check it out http://www.subatomicglue.com/
There certainly has been bands putting up music way before that as well. Is this news? or free advertising