So your dad teaches a course whose purpose is to prepare kids for college-level coursework, at the end they're don't even have a grasp of the high-school-level coursework, and he passes them? Maybe instead he should,,, I don't know... fail them? They did fail to master the material.
That's my take on it. I never really paid much attention to OS X until I installed it on my laptop just for fun. I kind of liked it and I got a kick out of the idea that it's really just an updated NextStep machine. That got me looking at XCode and iOS development. I'm developing a very simple card game now. I doubt it will sell well if at all but I'll fork over the $100 for the license and the $200 for an iPod Touch to test on once I get to that point. At worst case, I picked up a new and interesting language on the descendant of a platform I've always had a soft-spot for. At best case, I also make some cash on the side.
"But if you want to box (like in Wii Sports or Punch-Out!!), can you find a sparring partner without the cops showing up?"
You can if you do the same thing you'd do for any other sport on this earth and find a suitable playing field. Boxing is a sport that many people enjoy participating in and gyms with practice rings are readily available if you know where to look.
Not exactly baseball fans here, are we? Anyone remember the big QuesTec dust up a few years back? The system to detect balls and strikes already exists and is already in place to evaluate how umpires are doing. QuesTec was a limited deployment that is now gone but Zone Evaluation is the replacement system that's now in place in every MLB ball park. It's making live evaluations alongside the umpires to make sure they're making decent calls. It would take exactly zero effort at this point to let Zone Eval be the final say in the matter.
I don't think Soulskill's hangup is loyalty or fear of the unknown. I think the primary hangup here is arrogance. How arrogant do you have to be to think the company just can't survive without you? Sure, it's tough to replace a senior developer but the company isn't just going to roll over and go tits up over it. They'll move on just like you will.
I was worried about work life encroachment when I took a job 3 miles from my home. Serious work life encroachment happened to me a few years earlier when I took a primarily telecommuting job. But it turns out I loved the close-office arrangement so much more than telecommuting. There was practically no commute and I was still able to leave my work life at the office. I was getting all of the benefits of telecommuting with none of the negatives.
No, it'll be great. It's a remake of Syndicate... except it's an FPS, and you won't control a team. As an added bonus, EA will send a member of the original Bullfrog team over to your house to punch you in the balls and urinate on your old copy of Syndicate.
I don't think I ever had to but there was one mission in particular I remember where we had to protect someone and it was the first time I encountered an enemy agent with a sniper rifle. He's up on a ledge and after several failures I split off one agent with a shotgun off to make hamburger out of him while everyone else protected the person they were sent to protect. There were other similar scenarios in the game where splitting up probably isn't mandatory to success, but made things a lot easier.
Come on, the storytelling was awesome. Remember when you took over Alaska and they put up that big blimp that said, "Welcome to the dawning of a new era!" Or that time you took over the Atlantic Accelerator and there was that big blimp that said, "Welcome to the dawning of a new era!" Or that level where you had to kill all those guys? Or that level where you had to persuade someone to join your side? Mind-blowing storytelling!
"No, and how the heck do you expect me to if everyone keeps asking exactly that question."
When you do your internship at school, don't go for the fun one that has you goofing off and playing foosball all day. Get the one that offers the most experience. Once you're out in the workplace, do each job with the next one in mind. If the technology you're using is getting stale, find a way to use newer, more skills-marketable technology in your workplace. If your workplace won't let you do that, find a new one before your skills are completely out of date. If you fall off the treadmill, I'm not sure how you get back on, but those steps will at least help keep you from falling off in the first place.
Is there a list somewhere of what exactly is in the Starz catalog? I see it includes Disney movies but what about Disney Channel or ABC Family? What else is in that catalog?
You're confusing the 386 with the 486. Neither the 386SX nor the 386DX had a built-in math coprocessor. The math coprocessor didn't even exist yet when the 386DX (originally just called the 386) was launched. The difference between 386SX and 386DX was that the former only had a 16-bit data bus while the latter had a 32-bit one. The difference between the 486SX and 486DX was the DX's inclusion of a math coprocessor. The SX of each was the lesser processor but for different reasons.
The purpose of literary analysis is to analyze literature, not the author writing it. It was an asshole way to put it, but the TA was correct. It doesn't matter what the author thought or even intended. The only thing that matters is what the author wrote and what we can analyze from that.
My essay grades in college humanities courses were terrible until I started trying to figure out the political slant of my professor (or TA if the TA is the grader) and wrote papers supporting those views (and to be fair, those views weren't always left-leaning ones). I went from a C paper student to a low-A paper student in the blink of an eye.
Yeah, because nobody who enjoys something ever tries to get through it as efficiently as possible. Personally, I love homebrewing but part of that enjoyment is searching for ways to make my brew day shorter. I take pride in my 2-hour 10--gallon all-grain brew sessions and still manage to enjoy the process.
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Suck it, melting continental shelf! We'll volcano our way out of rising sea levels!
So your dad teaches a course whose purpose is to prepare kids for college-level coursework, at the end they're don't even have a grasp of the high-school-level coursework, and he passes them? Maybe instead he should,,, I don't know... fail them? They did fail to master the material.
So are you using the same desktop you were when the Playstation was released or have you replaced that one with newer hardware?
That's my take on it. I never really paid much attention to OS X until I installed it on my laptop just for fun. I kind of liked it and I got a kick out of the idea that it's really just an updated NextStep machine. That got me looking at XCode and iOS development. I'm developing a very simple card game now. I doubt it will sell well if at all but I'll fork over the $100 for the license and the $200 for an iPod Touch to test on once I get to that point. At worst case, I picked up a new and interesting language on the descendant of a platform I've always had a soft-spot for. At best case, I also make some cash on the side.
Limited forks? Hello? That's what waiters are for.
"But if you want to box (like in Wii Sports or Punch-Out!!), can you find a sparring partner without the cops showing up?"
You can if you do the same thing you'd do for any other sport on this earth and find a suitable playing field. Boxing is a sport that many people enjoy participating in and gyms with practice rings are readily available if you know where to look.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Bark?
Not exactly baseball fans here, are we? Anyone remember the big QuesTec dust up a few years back? The system to detect balls and strikes already exists and is already in place to evaluate how umpires are doing. QuesTec was a limited deployment that is now gone but Zone Evaluation is the replacement system that's now in place in every MLB ball park. It's making live evaluations alongside the umpires to make sure they're making decent calls. It would take exactly zero effort at this point to let Zone Eval be the final say in the matter.
I don't think Soulskill's hangup is loyalty or fear of the unknown. I think the primary hangup here is arrogance. How arrogant do you have to be to think the company just can't survive without you? Sure, it's tough to replace a senior developer but the company isn't just going to roll over and go tits up over it. They'll move on just like you will.
I was worried about work life encroachment when I took a job 3 miles from my home. Serious work life encroachment happened to me a few years earlier when I took a primarily telecommuting job. But it turns out I loved the close-office arrangement so much more than telecommuting. There was practically no commute and I was still able to leave my work life at the office. I was getting all of the benefits of telecommuting with none of the negatives.
No, it'll be great. It's a remake of Syndicate... except it's an FPS, and you won't control a team. As an added bonus, EA will send a member of the original Bullfrog team over to your house to punch you in the balls and urinate on your old copy of Syndicate.
I don't think I ever had to but there was one mission in particular I remember where we had to protect someone and it was the first time I encountered an enemy agent with a sniper rifle. He's up on a ledge and after several failures I split off one agent with a shotgun off to make hamburger out of him while everyone else protected the person they were sent to protect. There were other similar scenarios in the game where splitting up probably isn't mandatory to success, but made things a lot easier.
Come on, the storytelling was awesome. Remember when you took over Alaska and they put up that big blimp that said, "Welcome to the dawning of a new era!" Or that time you took over the Atlantic Accelerator and there was that big blimp that said, "Welcome to the dawning of a new era!" Or that level where you had to kill all those guys? Or that level where you had to persuade someone to join your side? Mind-blowing storytelling!
"No, and how the heck do you expect me to if everyone keeps asking exactly that question."
When you do your internship at school, don't go for the fun one that has you goofing off and playing foosball all day. Get the one that offers the most experience. Once you're out in the workplace, do each job with the next one in mind. If the technology you're using is getting stale, find a way to use newer, more skills-marketable technology in your workplace. If your workplace won't let you do that, find a new one before your skills are completely out of date. If you fall off the treadmill, I'm not sure how you get back on, but those steps will at least help keep you from falling off in the first place.
Is there a list somewhere of what exactly is in the Starz catalog? I see it includes Disney movies but what about Disney Channel or ABC Family? What else is in that catalog?
Sorry, that wasn't terribly clear. The 387 coprocessor didn't exist until after the 386 was already being sold.
You're confusing the 386 with the 486. Neither the 386SX nor the 386DX had a built-in math coprocessor. The math coprocessor didn't even exist yet when the 386DX (originally just called the 386) was launched. The difference between 386SX and 386DX was that the former only had a 16-bit data bus while the latter had a 32-bit one. The difference between the 486SX and 486DX was the DX's inclusion of a math coprocessor. The SX of each was the lesser processor but for different reasons.
Unfortunately for Google, they can't copy the users.
I remember the Power Glove. I even remember the Mattel logo on the box. Nintendo didn't have anything to do with its development.
They should bottle and market it. First we had astronaut ice cream. Now we have astronaut water!
So what degree did you get that didn't require humanities courses?
The purpose of literary analysis is to analyze literature, not the author writing it. It was an asshole way to put it, but the TA was correct. It doesn't matter what the author thought or even intended. The only thing that matters is what the author wrote and what we can analyze from that.
My essay grades in college humanities courses were terrible until I started trying to figure out the political slant of my professor (or TA if the TA is the grader) and wrote papers supporting those views (and to be fair, those views weren't always left-leaning ones). I went from a C paper student to a low-A paper student in the blink of an eye.
Yeah, because nobody who enjoys something ever tries to get through it as efficiently as possible. Personally, I love homebrewing but part of that enjoyment is searching for ways to make my brew day shorter. I take pride in my 2-hour 10--gallon all-grain brew sessions and still manage to enjoy the process.
Coffee? I like it. Java minus the pretentiousness.