...but if this law passes, it may never happen. That sucks. I have never gone through a full body scanner and never will. Sorry Australia, guess I'll be spending my tourism dollars in a country less hostile to privacy rights.
Hopefully this sees the light of day... some day... but I don't think it'll be under the current project. Too bad too. The FEL and rail gun are probably the coolest weapons projects out there.
Doesn't that assume that everyone on board had souls? I'm sure there were at least a few lawyers and/or politicians on board. Or does that number adjust for the soulless?
As much as I hate the idea of Obama spending even more of my money, building up our train infrastructure can only have good long-term effects, in my meaningless opinion. I'd love to take a train instead of fly or drive for a long time... it'd be awesome if I could hop on a train to New Orleans instead of driving for 10 hours, or dealing with an hour or two of security checkpoints and another 2 hours in a plane.
Hell, our national infrastructure is in a mostly-crumbling state... bridges collapsing, highways constantly being "repaired" for 2 years, only to have to be repaired again a few years later due to the lowest-bidder shoddy workmanship.
I'd much rather sink 53 billion into infrastructure than into bailouts.
I chose to be groped rather than be scanned this last weekend on a flight to Colorado. Not flying is not an option... I refuse to have my travel curtailed. So my choices are to be technologically raped or physically groped. I choose the groping. Ultimately, I think the groping was worth the expression of shock and indignation on the part of the TSA goon. My rights were violated either way, but at least I made some sort of stand.
Like into China? Or West as in the Western world? The title, at least, is a bit confusing, and we certainly can't expect everyone to read the article.:p
I think it's great that Japanese game developers are working with Western publishers (western as in American). Anything to provide cross-pollination of ideas and styles is always a good thing. I'm not a big fan of the art style or the grinding that seems to be in vogue for a lot of the Japanese games, but there's plenty there to love, as well.
My Dell laptop I bought a year and a half ago shipped with software to do exactly the same thing. I ended up disabling it because it took so much longer for the webcam to fire up and the software to do its thing than for me to just type in a password. This is with a Dell Studio XPS 13, though I wouldn't be surprised if this software shipped on other lappies as well.
I am/was self taught as well, mostly web-based to start with... PHP, then javascript, then C# over many years and up to using OO in all three. A year ago I started taking c++ classes in college and I can say I picked up a few very helpful things.
1. C++ gave me a look into pointers and how stuff runs at a lower level than any of the other languages. 2. Object use. I used objects before, but I didn't leverage them quite as heavily as I could have, including inheritance and polymorphism. What I learned in C++ has greatly affected how I code in PHP and C#. 3. One of my C++ classes was about efficiency in algorithms... so I learned a bunch about how stuff is done deep down and how to write efficient code. Very helpful for some of the stuff I do in PHP and javascript when working with large data sets. 4. Code design is a big one... before, I just put all my methods into a single class and called them there. The class ended up being more of a repository for functions and data than a real class. Now I have a better grasp of breaking stuff into parts and either creating child classes or whatever is appropriate.
It's still a learning process. I'm only on my 4th c++ class and haven't even taken the data structure class yet, but I've learned a tremendous amount, even in just the first intro to c++ class. My suggestion... take at least intro to c++ at a community college.. you'll probably be surprised how much you'll learn. As an added bonus, being familiar with programming makes getting an A a breeze, so you can concentrate on actually writing decent code and learning stuff.
I agree, code everything yourself. There's nothing wrong with coding your own frameworks and reusing those... even if something needs to be changed you know exactly how and where to do it.
I don't mind using code for simple things (especially javascript snippets to do things that are a pain in the butt to make cross-browser). But any time I've used other peoples' code for something marginally large it's bit me in the ass.
fyi, as the other reply states, CUDA isn't limited to a single manufacturer. nVidia has made it available for other graphics card manufacturers to support. Here's an article on Extremetech talking a bit about it, but at least according to the article ATI doesn't appear interested.
I've virtually never had to reboot home routers. I think an old Linksys router I had was mildly problematic. However, currently I have the Verizon FIOS router and a Cisco wireless router and never have to reboot either. They're both connected into a UPS. Prior to getting FIOS tv I had a Cisco SOHO router and it never needed to be rebooted either.
I may seem somewhat elitist to be running Cisco routers at home, but besides their purchase having been part of the Cisco courses I've been taking in college, I feel you really do get what you pay for. You can drop $50 (or $30) on a cheap router, but I guarantee my $300 Cisco router will be more configurable, more scalable and most stable than your cheap router. When you're paying $50/month or more for your internet service, I don't think dropping a decent amount of cash on your network equipment is that big a deal.
Special Forces are trained to work behind enemy lines in war to destabilize the government and cause as much damage as possible to the enemy's war effort. Since when have the niceties of the US constitution applied to an enemy, in war, in the enemy's territory?
Regardless, war is uncivilized. Anyone that thinks otherwise should do some research. If you try to apply peacetime's morals to a war zone you're just going to lose a lot of lives and accomplish nothing.
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...but if this law passes, it may never happen. That sucks. I have never gone through a full body scanner and never will. Sorry Australia, guess I'll be spending my tourism dollars in a country less hostile to privacy rights.
Oh man, that is absolutely classic. Thank you so much for finding that. I think you just made my day.
The funding for this and the rail gun was recently cut by the Senate Armed Services committe.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8157653/senate_armed_services_votes_to_kill.html
Hopefully this sees the light of day... some day... but I don't think it'll be under the current project. Too bad too. The FEL and rail gun are probably the coolest weapons projects out there.
Wikimedia has a bunch of diagrams of the ISS you could probably use.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Category:Diagrams_of_the_International_Space_Station
Doesn't that assume that everyone on board had souls? I'm sure there were at least a few lawyers and/or politicians on board. Or does that number adjust for the soulless?
In case it hasn't been done already, here's the direct link:
http://geohot.com/#2/19/2011
Big donate button at the top.
As much as I hate the idea of Obama spending even more of my money, building up our train infrastructure can only have good long-term effects, in my meaningless opinion. I'd love to take a train instead of fly or drive for a long time... it'd be awesome if I could hop on a train to New Orleans instead of driving for 10 hours, or dealing with an hour or two of security checkpoints and another 2 hours in a plane.
Hell, our national infrastructure is in a mostly-crumbling state... bridges collapsing, highways constantly being "repaired" for 2 years, only to have to be repaired again a few years later due to the lowest-bidder shoddy workmanship.
I'd much rather sink 53 billion into infrastructure than into bailouts.
I chose to be groped rather than be scanned this last weekend on a flight to Colorado. Not flying is not an option... I refuse to have my travel curtailed. So my choices are to be technologically raped or physically groped. I choose the groping. Ultimately, I think the groping was worth the expression of shock and indignation on the part of the TSA goon. My rights were violated either way, but at least I made some sort of stand.
Like into China? Or West as in the Western world? The title, at least, is a bit confusing, and we certainly can't expect everyone to read the article. :p
I think it's great that Japanese game developers are working with Western publishers (western as in American). Anything to provide cross-pollination of ideas and styles is always a good thing. I'm not a big fan of the art style or the grinding that seems to be in vogue for a lot of the Japanese games, but there's plenty there to love, as well.
The truth will set you free. Or possibly part you from even more money, if the truth happens to include copyrighted material.
My Dell laptop I bought a year and a half ago shipped with software to do exactly the same thing. I ended up disabling it because it took so much longer for the webcam to fire up and the software to do its thing than for me to just type in a password. This is with a Dell Studio XPS 13, though I wouldn't be surprised if this software shipped on other lappies as well.
I am/was self taught as well, mostly web-based to start with... PHP, then javascript, then C# over many years and up to using OO in all three. A year ago I started taking c++ classes in college and I can say I picked up a few very helpful things.
1. C++ gave me a look into pointers and how stuff runs at a lower level than any of the other languages.
2. Object use. I used objects before, but I didn't leverage them quite as heavily as I could have, including inheritance and polymorphism. What I learned in C++ has greatly affected how I code in PHP and C#.
3. One of my C++ classes was about efficiency in algorithms... so I learned a bunch about how stuff is done deep down and how to write efficient code. Very helpful for some of the stuff I do in PHP and javascript when working with large data sets.
4. Code design is a big one... before, I just put all my methods into a single class and called them there. The class ended up being more of a repository for functions and data than a real class. Now I have a better grasp of breaking stuff into parts and either creating child classes or whatever is appropriate.
It's still a learning process. I'm only on my 4th c++ class and haven't even taken the data structure class yet, but I've learned a tremendous amount, even in just the first intro to c++ class. My suggestion... take at least intro to c++ at a community college.. you'll probably be surprised how much you'll learn. As an added bonus, being familiar with programming makes getting an A a breeze, so you can concentrate on actually writing decent code and learning stuff.
I agree, code everything yourself. There's nothing wrong with coding your own frameworks and reusing those... even if something needs to be changed you know exactly how and where to do it.
I don't mind using code for simple things (especially javascript snippets to do things that are a pain in the butt to make cross-browser). But any time I've used other peoples' code for something marginally large it's bit me in the ass.
fyi, as the other reply states, CUDA isn't limited to a single manufacturer. nVidia has made it available for other graphics card manufacturers to support. Here's an article on Extremetech talking a bit about it, but at least according to the article ATI doesn't appear interested.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2324555,00.asp
I've virtually never had to reboot home routers. I think an old Linksys router I had was mildly problematic. However, currently I have the Verizon FIOS router and a Cisco wireless router and never have to reboot either. They're both connected into a UPS. Prior to getting FIOS tv I had a Cisco SOHO router and it never needed to be rebooted either.
I may seem somewhat elitist to be running Cisco routers at home, but besides their purchase having been part of the Cisco courses I've been taking in college, I feel you really do get what you pay for. You can drop $50 (or $30) on a cheap router, but I guarantee my $300 Cisco router will be more configurable, more scalable and most stable than your cheap router. When you're paying $50/month or more for your internet service, I don't think dropping a decent amount of cash on your network equipment is that big a deal.
Special Forces are trained to work behind enemy lines in war to destabilize the government and cause as much damage as possible to the enemy's war effort. Since when have the niceties of the US constitution applied to an enemy, in war, in the enemy's territory? Regardless, war is uncivilized. Anyone that thinks otherwise should do some research. If you try to apply peacetime's morals to a war zone you're just going to lose a lot of lives and accomplish nothing.