Hmmm...animal sacrifice is a Jewish thing. Christians don't live under God's pact with Moses or Abraham, so we don't do that any more. That being said, neither do most Jews, nowadays.
I suppose that's how I got my job. My grades themselves...not stellar. But my manager realized that I actually *got* the ideas and gave a damn about using them as well as learning new ones. So now under a year later, I'm implementing some of the main functionality for our next software release. My education gave me ideas. I got hired for taking the ideas from class and running with them to me own ends.
Does it, now? If true, perhaps you can specify an example or two? If you don't use VLC or Youtube (which are the two video applications I access most frequently, personally), then what are you doing that is caused so much trouble by this excellent library?
It took me a couple days to get used to, but now it's a bummer to back to something that *doesn't* do the awesomebar stuff. What's your actual problem with it?
With 4, it's almost like 13 in American culture, except that they tend to take superstition more seriously than most Americans. It's like a woman wearing black to a wedding. It's just not done, because it's disrespectful, and it reminds people of a funeral. The Chinese have all sorts of things like that. Black clothing, 4, sticking chopsticks into rice so that they stand upright, etc.
I suppose that's one way to think about it. Another is that since those drugs are illegal, they tend to be supplied by large drug-smuggling operations. You buy something, some of that money goes into the salesperson's pocket, and some of that goes into the illegal drug trade.
Agent Kay: "Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
Because it's an aspect of chimpanzee intelligence that hadn't previously been observed, apparently. One of the key differences between humans and animals is that humans have a much more advanced ability to predict what will happen in the future and to make preparations to deal with that prediction. In this case, the chimp remembered that people were outside of his cage on other days, and realized that that would probably be true again. He prepared for that prediction. Animals just don't tend to plan ahead, and it's exciting that this one did.
How about when a patch for an exploit comes out? Copy that patched file into each of the 50 programs you have installed that use it? I actually hate it when I do a search for a dll and find 20 copies of the same thing, strewn around the drive.
I would have to disagree on both counts. I greatly enjoyed Halo 2's multiplayer (never played all that much of Halo 1's, so I'll reserve judgment on that), but TFC and CS were both *amazing* Half-Life multiplayer modes. And I've always thought Halo's storyline was clearer than Half-Life's *ever* was...although I still maintain that Half-Life had better gameplay, especially for when it came out.
Halo was a competent series, but Half-Life was revolutionary.
Well, the kb+m combo *is* far superior for FPS games, but that doesn't stop me from playing them on s 360 anyhow. Playing on a PC was good...but the first FPS I spent a lot of multiplayer time in was Goldeneye, and the controls in that are crap by today's standards. People get used to whatever's available. If it isn't the fastest, but it's comfortable, then what does it matter? Everyone else is fettered in the same way anyhow.
My first programming classes were supervised (not taught) by the guy that ran the Windows computer lab. He was Mac-only, and hadn't written a line of code in his life. Basically, he handed the 5 of us in the class books and said "Just show me something cool at the end of the day every day, and I'll pass you".
Most of the things I order online come from smaller companies that wouldn't have gotten my business without being online. Some come from individuals on Ebay or Amazon. Some come from large companies online that offer decent prices and shipping. You always pay a price premium for convenience and speed.
Oh, you need the competition between the brick and mortar stores? OK. So, how do we guarantee that? Punish the big stores with higher taxes and give tax incentives to the smaller ones? Bail out failing companies? Companies fail for a reason. CC wasn't providing sufficient competition to BB. To make it worse, they were terribly mismanaged. If they had declared bankruptcy earlier, they might have still been in business. If they hadn't gotten rid of their best salespeople, they might not have gone bankrupt in the first place.
I guess so, unless you've got Best Buy or Fry's nearby. Or a local electronics store. Or pay for one of those gift cards from one of the credit companies and ship to a PO Box or something.
Unless you run that Wine script that lets you install the newer IEs on Linux, of course. Then you're still screwed, because EVERYONE knows that ONLY IE6 and Windows together will protect you.
Homework should be used as a teaching tool, not as a measure of success. Homework tracks your progress through a chapter, and can be used to identify what areas of the material you need to study more. Tests should be the majority of the grade, since they are a measure of the final result of the learning...and material should be retested in smaller amounts later. Graded homework is too easy to BS. Getting someone else to do it, finding answers posted online, etc. With a heavier emphasis on tests, the benefit of cheating on homework disappears...and the testing environment is easier to control than any homeworking environment.
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Hmmm...animal sacrifice is a Jewish thing. Christians don't live under God's pact with Moses or Abraham, so we don't do that any more. That being said, neither do most Jews, nowadays.
Please document that sentence. Its meaning is unclear. Thank you.
I suppose that's how I got my job. My grades themselves...not stellar. But my manager realized that I actually *got* the ideas and gave a damn about using them as well as learning new ones. So now under a year later, I'm implementing some of the main functionality for our next software release. My education gave me ideas. I got hired for taking the ideas from class and running with them to me own ends.
1.6 megabytes per second is 12.8 megabits per second, which is 80% of the speed of your pipe. Sounds pretty respectable to me.
Which doesn't run on all the systems you might use, and which costs money on top of that? No thanks.
Does it, now? If true, perhaps you can specify an example or two? If you don't use VLC or Youtube (which are the two video applications I access most frequently, personally), then what are you doing that is caused so much trouble by this excellent library?
It took me a couple days to get used to, but now it's a bummer to back to something that *doesn't* do the awesomebar stuff. What's your actual problem with it?
With 4, it's almost like 13 in American culture, except that they tend to take superstition more seriously than most Americans. It's like a woman wearing black to a wedding. It's just not done, because it's disrespectful, and it reminds people of a funeral. The Chinese have all sorts of things like that. Black clothing, 4, sticking chopsticks into rice so that they stand upright, etc.
Or the terminator movies for that matter. That would probably be a better-known example than First Contact.
Billions? I think you've got a typo there.
The Egyptians found out that da Nile doesn't make it go away, either.
I suppose that's one way to think about it. Another is that since those drugs are illegal, they tend to be supplied by large drug-smuggling operations. You buy something, some of that money goes into the salesperson's pocket, and some of that goes into the illegal drug trade.
Agent Kay: "Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
Because it's an aspect of chimpanzee intelligence that hadn't previously been observed, apparently. One of the key differences between humans and animals is that humans have a much more advanced ability to predict what will happen in the future and to make preparations to deal with that prediction.
In this case, the chimp remembered that people were outside of his cage on other days, and realized that that would probably be true again. He prepared for that prediction. Animals just don't tend to plan ahead, and it's exciting that this one did.
How about when a patch for an exploit comes out? Copy that patched file into each of the 50 programs you have installed that use it? I actually hate it when I do a search for a dll and find 20 copies of the same thing, strewn around the drive.
I would have to disagree on both counts. I greatly enjoyed Halo 2's multiplayer (never played all that much of Halo 1's, so I'll reserve judgment on that), but TFC and CS were both *amazing* Half-Life multiplayer modes. And I've always thought Halo's storyline was clearer than Half-Life's *ever* was...although I still maintain that Half-Life had better gameplay, especially for when it came out.
Halo was a competent series, but Half-Life was revolutionary.
Well, the kb+m combo *is* far superior for FPS games, but that doesn't stop me from playing them on s 360 anyhow. Playing on a PC was good...but the first FPS I spent a lot of multiplayer time in was Goldeneye, and the controls in that are crap by today's standards. People get used to whatever's available. If it isn't the fastest, but it's comfortable, then what does it matter? Everyone else is fettered in the same way anyhow.
My first programming classes were supervised (not taught) by the guy that ran the Windows computer lab. He was Mac-only, and hadn't written a line of code in his life. Basically, he handed the 5 of us in the class books and said "Just show me something cool at the end of the day every day, and I'll pass you".
Most of the things I order online come from smaller companies that wouldn't have gotten my business without being online. Some come from individuals on Ebay or Amazon. Some come from large companies online that offer decent prices and shipping. You always pay a price premium for convenience and speed.
Oh, you need the competition between the brick and mortar stores? OK. So, how do we guarantee that? Punish the big stores with higher taxes and give tax incentives to the smaller ones? Bail out failing companies? Companies fail for a reason. CC wasn't providing sufficient competition to BB. To make it worse, they were terribly mismanaged. If they had declared bankruptcy earlier, they might have still been in business. If they hadn't gotten rid of their best salespeople, they might not have gone bankrupt in the first place.
I guess so, unless you've got Best Buy or Fry's nearby. Or a local electronics store. Or pay for one of those gift cards from one of the credit companies and ship to a PO Box or something.
Yes.
Unless you run that Wine script that lets you install the newer IEs on Linux, of course. Then you're still screwed, because EVERYONE knows that ONLY IE6 and Windows together will protect you.
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Tee hee =p
Yeah...the problem is that 1.3 million people have said a variation on the same thing, before you...it gets old.
Homework should be used as a teaching tool, not as a measure of success. Homework tracks your progress through a chapter, and can be used to identify what areas of the material you need to study more. Tests should be the majority of the grade, since they are a measure of the final result of the learning...and material should be retested in smaller amounts later. Graded homework is too easy to BS. Getting someone else to do it, finding answers posted online, etc. With a heavier emphasis on tests, the benefit of cheating on homework disappears...and the testing environment is easier to control than any homeworking environment.