I actually saw something like this at CES '07. It was able to tell the difference between "relax" and "concentrate", for instance. They had it hooked up as a Half-Life 2 modification. If you concentrated, the things under the cursor would start to explode. Relax, and they would start floating around your head. It was pretty cool to watch, but it's not something that would be useful for playing most fast-paced games.
I go to a "polytechnic" university; it tends to mix marketable skills in with the pure academics; I'd say that the only practically useless degrees would be Political Science, Philosophy, etc. Language majors can become writers or translators, agriculture majors have various options open to them from irrigation and landscape design to veterinary work, depending on the exact major. Engineering and science have obvious work applications. I guess my point is that (at least at my school), graduating students tend not to have any problems in finding work that fits with their majors, right out of earning a bachelor's.
I expect complete and absolute support for "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS"!
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Plus, it has those beautiful, blocky edges. And you can get it in any color you want, as long as you want black!....Seriously though, the IBM thinkpads are very nice machines. I've been using mine for 5 years, and it's working just as well as the day I bought it (and that's with hauling it around a college campus in a backpack, etc)
Bioware got eaten by the ogre, as well as Maxis, Origin, Westwood...studios that put out some real classics and would still be doing so if they hadn't been swallowed up....I've still got some faint hope for Bioware, at least. They seem to be relatively independent...
But....have I deprived someone else of payment? I prefer some forms of music that I prefer. However, my preference isn't $15 strong per CD. If I couldn't get the music for free (or at heavily reduced price), then I would choose to have it unavailable. Their price isn't worth it to me; my next choice would be radio and streaming audio, by which I would also be "deriving someone else of payment".
You mean...just slightly smaller than the Wii sitting on my desk =)
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I think English speakers are slowly dropping use of "ly" on the ends of adjectives. If so, it's one of those things that will slowly happen more and more, until that's just the way it's done.
How odd....I've known that Canadians pay a media tax on their CD-R's, and I'm a United Statesian. Funny what you hear when you pay attention (and what you miss when you don't!)
The US is a very large country, and almost all inhabited areas have cell phone coverage. If a company spends billions on deploying a network, and sections of that network won't generate more money if they upgrade from analog to digital, then that section's staying analog as long as possible. It's not a matter of not having the technology to set up the upgrade. The problem is that it's frickin' expensive.
It's a reasonable position to take. I don't want my system to do something that's not in my best interests without asking me. I would like to point out that it is also (by a tremendous margin) a minority of people that will actually understand what the system is doing, and how it could affect them. They just see the nag box and click "ok" as fast as possible.
The drivers still do hardware tampering check....the "tilt bit". If the driver detects anything screwy with the hardware (voltage fluctuations, etc), it resets the machine. Even when running non-protected content, this is being checked, which reduces performance and makes it possible that the machine will reboot at arbitrary times.
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=28793&messageID=537882&start=26
As a newly graduated CS student, the most I've had to do in assembly was "Read in a list of numbers, terminated with boundary value x, then sort using bubble sort".
In the upper division courses, we generally have our choice of languages. I've been alternating between C++ and Python (except for the rare professor that actually requires Java).
I believe that life isn't too complex to have been generated by natural laws; on the contrary, said laws were designed by a creator with the express purpose of generating the life we see.
"He" is just a convenient grammatical construct to refer to a God, which I actually suspect is genderless. Appearing to a male-dominated society, "He" took on a male persona, which is how we now think of Him.
As to the question of how God came to exist, the Bible school answer would be "He just always has". Personally, I think that before the universe was created, time was undefined, so "always" loses its meaning. There wasn't some amount of aeons of time with God sitting doing nothing.....of course, I don't have any evidence that it's not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down;-)
I consider myself as conducting a life-long experiment, which will eventually be duplicated (one way or the other) by every human in history. Although, it will be difficult to revise my hypothesis if there is no God, and therefore (probably) no afterlife =/
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I actually saw something like this at CES '07. It was able to tell the difference between "relax" and "concentrate", for instance. They had it hooked up as a Half-Life 2 modification. If you concentrated, the things under the cursor would start to explode. Relax, and they would start floating around your head. It was pretty cool to watch, but it's not something that would be useful for playing most fast-paced games.
I go to a "polytechnic" university; it tends to mix marketable skills in with the pure academics; I'd say that the only practically useless degrees would be Political Science, Philosophy, etc. Language majors can become writers or translators, agriculture majors have various options open to them from irrigation and landscape design to veterinary work, depending on the exact major. Engineering and science have obvious work applications. I guess my point is that (at least at my school), graduating students tend not to have any problems in finding work that fits with their majors, right out of earning a bachelor's.
I expect complete and absolute support for "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS"!
Plus, it has those beautiful, blocky edges. And you can get it in any color you want, as long as you want black!....Seriously though, the IBM thinkpads are very nice machines. I've been using mine for 5 years, and it's working just as well as the day I bought it (and that's with hauling it around a college campus in a backpack, etc)
Bioware got eaten by the ogre, as well as Maxis, Origin, Westwood...studios that put out some real classics and would still be doing so if they hadn't been swallowed up....I've still got some faint hope for Bioware, at least. They seem to be relatively independent...
Only if you know some very odd-looking and somewhat cowardly people.
But....have I deprived someone else of payment? I prefer some forms of music that I prefer. However, my preference isn't $15 strong per CD. If I couldn't get the music for free (or at heavily reduced price), then I would choose to have it unavailable. Their price isn't worth it to me; my next choice would be radio and streaming audio, by which I would also be "deriving someone else of payment".
You mean...just slightly smaller than the Wii sitting on my desk =)
I think English speakers are slowly dropping use of "ly" on the ends of adjectives. If so, it's one of those things that will slowly happen more and more, until that's just the way it's done.
How odd....I've known that Canadians pay a media tax on their CD-R's, and I'm a United Statesian. Funny what you hear when you pay attention (and what you miss when you don't!)
The US is a very large country, and almost all inhabited areas have cell phone coverage. If a company spends billions on deploying a network, and sections of that network won't generate more money if they upgrade from analog to digital, then that section's staying analog as long as possible. It's not a matter of not having the technology to set up the upgrade. The problem is that it's frickin' expensive.
I would very much like you to use Windows ME. You'd be too busy with the bsod's to troll /.
It's a reasonable position to take. I don't want my system to do something that's not in my best interests without asking me. I would like to point out that it is also (by a tremendous margin) a minority of people that will actually understand what the system is doing, and how it could affect them. They just see the nag box and click "ok" as fast as possible.
What are you talking about? Many of their routers lost connectivity. Parts of the country were completely offline.
Actually, it comes from Sicilian Italian, circa 1875, meaning "boldness, bravado", and possibly descending from Arabic or Old French before that.
The drivers still do hardware tampering check....the "tilt bit". If the driver detects anything screwy with the hardware (voltage fluctuations, etc), it resets the machine. Even when running non-protected content, this is being checked, which reduces performance and makes it possible that the machine will reboot at arbitrary times. http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=28793&messageID=537882&start=26
That's why I support renaming Uranus to Urectum. (preferably before the year 2620)
Please, don't bring this shit up. It's a debate that goes in circles and never finds a solution that's to anyone's satisfaction.
As a newly graduated CS student, the most I've had to do in assembly was "Read in a list of numbers, terminated with boundary value x, then sort using bubble sort".
In the upper division courses, we generally have our choice of languages. I've been alternating between C++ and Python (except for the rare professor that actually requires Java).
I vote against the creation of the Crystalline Entity. I just want that on record here and now.
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Aside from this sentence, this document is blank.
I believe that life isn't too complex to have been generated by natural laws; on the contrary, said laws were designed by a creator with the express purpose of generating the life we see.
;-)
"He" is just a convenient grammatical construct to refer to a God, which I actually suspect is genderless. Appearing to a male-dominated society, "He" took on a male persona, which is how we now think of Him.
As to the question of how God came to exist, the Bible school answer would be "He just always has". Personally, I think that before the universe was created, time was undefined, so "always" loses its meaning. There wasn't some amount of aeons of time with God sitting doing nothing.....of course, I don't have any evidence that it's not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
I consider myself as conducting a life-long experiment, which will eventually be duplicated (one way or the other) by every human in history. Although, it will be difficult to revise my hypothesis if there is no God, and therefore (probably) no afterlife =/
Hmmm....if you can make a legible o out of 4 pixels (a 2x2 square), then contact me over email, and I'll give you $500.
640 Progressive scan doesn't exist? Wow, I'd better tell Win/Lin to stop having it as a resolution option...