There is actually a time component - if your program takes too long to run, it will be counted as a failed attempt. The exact time barrier has varied from competition to competition when I've competed, however, they were all low enough to ensure that brute-forcing a problem only worked for very simple problems and not anything of any complexity. More interesting approaches will generally be needed to get credit for a solution.
And that's exactly why it's so nice for us. Even though our Online Editor knows PHP, HTML, everything that you would need to know to use a more complicated CMS, that hasn't always been the case, and not needing to know that in order to keep the website updated weekly is just what Joomla is good for.
I'm the Managing Editor of the University Register, campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota, Morris. Last fall we installed Joomla to replace a bizarrely hacked-together mess of a website that was hand-coded by some student years ago that no one knows anymore. It's extremely simple to use (though we still haven't fixed a few small issues, such as the top module not appearing correctly on article pages; this isn't really due to lack of ability as it is lack of effort, as there are more important things for us to do). I would definitely recommend it to anyone that wants a site that's easy to use and configure. As a plus, it's also vastly improved our pagerank on Google, presumably because it's easier to crawl.
28% Mac +
23% ("about a quarter") Red Hat +
18% SUSE +
18% Ubuntu +
9% Other Linux +
4% Unsure =
100% of the 44% that were looking into Windows alternatives. Reading comprehension - try it.
Really? Where was that survey that showed that the RIAA was considered by people to be the worst corporation in the US?
Not "people". "Bloggers". The Consumerist (publisher of the "Worst Corporation" article) is not particularly mainstream.
At the University of Minnesota, students have been able to buy copies of Windows XP and Office 2003 for $4 each...for several years. Starting in a few weeks, this is going to be changed to Vista and Office 2007. How is this new?
I was hoping to get a quick translation of football fields to Rhode Islands, but Google couldn't help me. Anyone else with a better calculator available?
While I have enormous respect for you for even bothering to look at the ratings and paying active attention to what your kids are playing, I think that you're overreacting a bit to cartoon violence like that found in Shrek. There's no way a 5-10 y.o. kid should be playing GTA or any game with realistic violence, but if you've watched the Shrek movie, it's largely comprised of fart jokes and knight-beating, and expecting the game to be much different isn't really realistic. I imagine few parents not allowing their kids to watch Shrek 2 (rated PG). I see the E rating to be equivalent to a PG rating on a movie; there are plenty of movies rated PG that have violence. A rating of T would be equivalent to PG-13, and a rating of M would be equivalent to an R-rated movie.
Also, I haven't played Crazy Machines, but judging from a few quick screenshots it looks similar to The Incredible Machine from the early 90s, which was a great game as well. If you can find a copy (easily available on filesharing networks if you're not against that), it'd provide a great deal more entertainment if you exhaust yours.
If you read the content tags next to the E rating on the back of the box, you'll note that Shrek II was rated E, with tags for "Comic Mischief, Violence". If you don't want games involving violence, don't buy games with the Violence tag.
Does anyone remember GMR magazine from a year or two ago? Ziff-Davis put it out of business when they decided it was competing with EGM, despite the fact that it was so many miles ahead of anything else out there. Actual reviews (not disguised advertisements), and way fewer advertisements than anything else. Plus, the layout was much nicer to read as well, and the section Retro/Active was really fun to read.
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There is actually a time component - if your program takes too long to run, it will be counted as a failed attempt. The exact time barrier has varied from competition to competition when I've competed, however, they were all low enough to ensure that brute-forcing a problem only worked for very simple problems and not anything of any complexity. More interesting approaches will generally be needed to get credit for a solution.
And that's exactly why it's so nice for us. Even though our Online Editor knows PHP, HTML, everything that you would need to know to use a more complicated CMS, that hasn't always been the case, and not needing to know that in order to keep the website updated weekly is just what Joomla is good for.
I'm the Managing Editor of the University Register, campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota, Morris. Last fall we installed Joomla to replace a bizarrely hacked-together mess of a website that was hand-coded by some student years ago that no one knows anymore. It's extremely simple to use (though we still haven't fixed a few small issues, such as the top module not appearing correctly on article pages; this isn't really due to lack of ability as it is lack of effort, as there are more important things for us to do). I would definitely recommend it to anyone that wants a site that's easy to use and configure. As a plus, it's also vastly improved our pagerank on Google, presumably because it's easier to crawl.
28% Mac +
23% ("about a quarter") Red Hat +
18% SUSE +
18% Ubuntu +
9% Other Linux +
4% Unsure =
100% of the 44% that were looking into Windows alternatives. Reading comprehension - try it.
I left a Pandora window open overnight and it's still playing today. Is that cheating?
Really? Where was that survey that showed that the RIAA was considered by people to be the worst corporation in the US? Not "people". "Bloggers". The Consumerist (publisher of the "Worst Corporation" article) is not particularly mainstream.
At the University of Minnesota, students have been able to buy copies of Windows XP and Office 2003 for $4 each...for several years. Starting in a few weeks, this is going to be changed to Vista and Office 2007. How is this new?
What's wrong with LISP?
When he said...
If it's just a matter of hating Adobe Reader, there are free open-source alternatives out there.
What did you hear?
I was hoping to get a quick translation of football fields to Rhode Islands, but Google couldn't help me. Anyone else with a better calculator available?
3.
Did they at least get a Nexus Crystal?
Well, if Wikipedia says it, it must be true.
Gamespot reports that Gamestop...*blink*
Anyone who would watch 6 consecutive Star Wars movies should be considered a virgin by default.
Ah, yes, the business world, that pinnacle of morality. captcha: illusion
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/ 1816257
The worst case of this was in one of the Spy-Kids movies (yes, I watched them...), when the kid is playing a guitar solo while strumming.
CVS?
Viewtiful Joe?
The Getaway already has a startlingly accurate virtual London.
Ventura hasn't been governor for 4 years...
While I have enormous respect for you for even bothering to look at the ratings and paying active attention to what your kids are playing, I think that you're overreacting a bit to cartoon violence like that found in Shrek. There's no way a 5-10 y.o. kid should be playing GTA or any game with realistic violence, but if you've watched the Shrek movie, it's largely comprised of fart jokes and knight-beating, and expecting the game to be much different isn't really realistic. I imagine few parents not allowing their kids to watch Shrek 2 (rated PG). I see the E rating to be equivalent to a PG rating on a movie; there are plenty of movies rated PG that have violence. A rating of T would be equivalent to PG-13, and a rating of M would be equivalent to an R-rated movie. Also, I haven't played Crazy Machines, but judging from a few quick screenshots it looks similar to The Incredible Machine from the early 90s, which was a great game as well. If you can find a copy (easily available on filesharing networks if you're not against that), it'd provide a great deal more entertainment if you exhaust yours.
If you read the content tags next to the E rating on the back of the box, you'll note that Shrek II was rated E, with tags for "Comic Mischief, Violence". If you don't want games involving violence, don't buy games with the Violence tag.
Does anyone remember GMR magazine from a year or two ago? Ziff-Davis put it out of business when they decided it was competing with EGM, despite the fact that it was so many miles ahead of anything else out there. Actual reviews (not disguised advertisements), and way fewer advertisements than anything else. Plus, the layout was much nicer to read as well, and the section Retro/Active was really fun to read.