I know this question might seems asinine, but why are blueTooth gadgets so much more expensive than wiFi? E.g. a wireless blueTooth headset is so expensive...
For a while now I've been thinking, wouldn't it be cool to build your own digital camera? Has anyone tried this out? or even thought about this? I can take care of the software/firmware and a bit of the electronics side of things, but I don't know much about the camera parts that actually take the picture.
I find these restrictions on encryption really retarded. The strength of an encryption algorithm doesn't necessairly depend on if its 128 or 256 bit encryption, but rather the implementation. Its kind of like Titanic, nobody thought it could be sunk, but a weak implementation sunk it.
Somewhere in the Carribbean, a parrot sitting Pirate Black Beard's shoulder is screaming "Idiota", "Idiota".
Seriously though, this is a stupid move for skype and a cheap move for intel. Limiting the consumer because he bought an AMD won't really encourage them to use skype, they'll just use something else.
Seems like an improvement on blueTooth. I think this tech has a lot of potential. I suspect the small range is due to the fact that the antenna is embedded onto the chip. Maybe hooking up a booster antenna might help amplify the signal further.
Hi there? where abouts in Canada? Are these jobs for new grads or exp users. I'm not sure if the exp matters that much since.NET is not that old anyway.
actually... if you can program in Java, you can program in.NET with relative ease. C# is very similar to Java. Just take a book and browse through it and bam ur set. I use C# the complete reference by Herbert Schildt. This book will help you make the transition from Java to C#, however it will not teach you to use VS.NET. Using that book I picked C# up with relative ease in my last year of Uni.
I wish I was using.NET right now though, but I'm stuck with using C, programming microchips. Oh well, its better than doing it in assembler.
When I was in Uni, the research lab had this station with a pretty impressive and expensive setup.
It was basically a chair with a small table attached to keep your keyboard and this big plastic hemisphere in front of you that reached to either ends of you table. Under the table was a projector that was displayed whatever onto the hemisphere. So you basically had this image or video spanning either ends of you. It was pretty cool. I've never seen it been used for anything else except research students playing games on it. Yay for my tuition money.
When I was in school, I worked as a data entry clerk for Revenue Canada, entering ppls tax returns. We didn't have PC's or Macs, we just had dumb terminals that we logged onto and all our data was sent to a mainframe computer. Shouldn't that be the way it should be done?
very informative first post. Thanks for the info. BTW, decode doesn't necessairly mean something is encrypted, it just means that you're changing stuff from one understood medium to another understood medium. Like the way ppl decode clay tablets that were written 1000 years ago. I write network level code and to me, decode and decryption are two different things. When I decode a network packet, I just strip away the headers depending on whats in it. When I decrypt a network packet, I need to use some keys etc. I guess its all about your POV of things.
actually you have a very good point there. In school, I did a combination of Telecomm and Computer engineering and I found that a lot of stuff I learned was based on some retarted simulation tool, or I had to use some libraries and do stuff. A lot of my DSP education was done in Matlab, which is a good tool and I became very good at it, but I would have appreciated to understand the underlying logic behing how certain things worked.
The booth babes are the closest some nerds will come to some really hot girl.. even sadder... the booth babes don't give a rats behind about the nerds, or the games or the event for that matter
Come one.. most of these girls are basically cheer leaders from HS that were never really good for anything except looking pretty. The never really cared about you in HS, and I doubt they really care about you now.
Don't fool yourself, try improving your social/speaking skill and then go out and get your mack on.. you don't need those booth babes...
umm.. unfortunately it is... obesity is a big problem in Canada. There are too many ppl here who would rather stay at home and watch TV rather than go outside. And the fact that its freakin cold all the time doesn't help too much either.
I am with you on this. As a programmer, I feel that this is utter crap. Everyone says that they are a monoply. Please tell me how they are a monoply? You can always buy another OS and delete MS Win, they are not forcing you to use their OS. You can always install Linux and BSD if you want, they are FREE, unless you mean to imply that they are not valid systems. Apple on the other hand forces me to use their OS on their hard to upgrade system. Thats a company that I would ask to open up. This is a LAW made up by ppl who know nothing about technology and by IT lobbyist who can't compete..
you mean to say that you've never heard of Google and Photoshop..:p
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umm.. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or ignorant.
if you're not familiar with the facts of the case, here you go:
RIM is a Canadian Company that sells the blackBerry in Canada and the US. RIM has a patent on the way an e-mail is sent in Canada. Their server that does this stuff is in Canada. All e-mails sent are routed to their server in Canada.
NTP is a company that just collects patents. NTP has a US patent on the stuff that RIM does. They have not put any money into research and do not have a product. They do not employ anyone.
Please tell me what is this innovation that you're talking about. Anyone can dream of flying cars and robots taking over the world, and Hollywood has clearly shown us that. But it takes more than just a dream to create a product, it takes hours of research, $$'s and commitment to actually make it work. RIM has created a product and employes a lot of ppl, NTP hasn't put any money into research and doesn't employ anyone, they don't even have a product. So why would you support them?
In some games cutscenes are good, in some games they might be bad.
In some senseless shooting games, it might be pointless to have cutscenes, but in some games where a story is told its nice to watch them.
I am playing Age Of Mythology right now and I love the cutscenes. After every mission that I complete I see a small cinematic on whats going on and I love it since I still feel I am immersed in the environment, and it gives me a small breather before going into the next campaign.
Haha.. u think ur company is like the UN check out mine. We're all Canadian, just some not born here.
2 Guys born in England 2 Guys born in India Boss born in Canada, grew up in Europe and the Middle East 2 ppl, 1 girl and 1 guy born in Serbia 1 girl born in the phillipines. 1 Coop kid born in Taiwan 1 girl born in Iran 3 Guys born in Canada (not including the boss) 1 Guy born in Brazil.
But then again, the vancouver area is very very multicultural.
U get charged for the ticket, then you get charged a convenience charge for buying it online, then u pay another 2.50 for them to e-mail it to you. Splendid indeed.
Population of Europe>US these sales stats seem to be primarily of computer sales from big companies like Dell and HP.
I dunno about the states, but here in Vancouver, Canada, most ppl I know get computers not from Dell and HP, but from local stores that sell generic computers. It seems that these stats are a bit off.
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I know this question might seems asinine, but why are blueTooth gadgets so much more expensive than wiFi?
E.g. a wireless blueTooth headset is so expensive...
For a while now I've been thinking, wouldn't it be cool to build your own digital camera? Has anyone tried this out? or even thought about this?
I can take care of the software/firmware and a bit of the electronics side of things, but I don't know much about the camera parts that actually take the picture.
I find these restrictions on encryption really retarded. The strength of an encryption algorithm doesn't necessairly depend on if its 128 or 256 bit encryption, but rather the implementation. Its kind of like Titanic, nobody thought it could be sunk, but a weak implementation sunk it.
Somewhere in the Carribbean, a parrot sitting Pirate Black Beard's shoulder is screaming "Idiota", "Idiota".
Seriously though, this is a stupid move for skype and a cheap move for intel. Limiting the consumer because he bought an AMD won't really encourage them to use skype, they'll just use something else.
Seems like an improvement on blueTooth. I think this tech has a lot of potential. I suspect the small range is due to the fact that the antenna is embedded onto the chip. Maybe hooking up a booster antenna might help amplify the signal further.
Anyone here work as a hardware programmer?
How much do they make?
Hi there? where abouts in Canada? Are these jobs for new grads or exp users. I'm not sure if the exp matters that much since .NET is not that old anyway.
actually... if you can program in Java, you can program in .NET with relative ease. C# is very similar to Java. Just take a book and browse through it and bam ur set. I use C# the complete reference by Herbert Schildt. This book will help you make the transition from Java to C#, however it will not teach you to use VS.NET. Using that book I picked C# up with relative ease in my last year of Uni.
.NET right now though, but I'm stuck with using C, programming microchips. Oh well, its better than doing it in assembler.
I wish I was using
When I was in Uni, the research lab had this station with a pretty impressive and expensive setup. It was basically a chair with a small table attached to keep your keyboard and this big plastic hemisphere in front of you that reached to either ends of you table. Under the table was a projector that was displayed whatever onto the hemisphere. So you basically had this image or video spanning either ends of you. It was pretty cool. I've never seen it been used for anything else except research students playing games on it. Yay for my tuition money.
When I was in school, I worked as a data entry clerk for Revenue Canada, entering ppls tax returns. We didn't have PC's or Macs, we just had dumb terminals that we logged onto and all our data was sent to a mainframe computer. Shouldn't that be the way it should be done?
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very informative first post. Thanks for the info. BTW, decode doesn't necessairly mean something is encrypted, it just means that you're changing stuff from one understood medium to another understood medium. Like the way ppl decode clay tablets that were written 1000 years ago. I write network level code and to me, decode and decryption are two different things. When I decode a network packet, I just strip away the headers depending on whats in it. When I decrypt a network packet, I need to use some keys etc. I guess its all about your POV of things.
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Just my 2 cents.
actually you have a very good point there. In school, I did a combination of Telecomm and Computer engineering and I found that a lot of stuff I learned was based on some retarted simulation tool, or I had to use some libraries and do stuff. A lot of my DSP education was done in Matlab, which is a good tool and I became very good at it, but I would have appreciated to understand the underlying logic behing how certain things worked.
The booth babes are the closest some nerds will come to some really hot girl..
even sadder... the booth babes don't give a rats behind about the nerds, or the games or the event for that matter
Come one.. most of these girls are basically cheer leaders from HS that were never really good for anything except looking pretty. The never really cared about you in HS, and I doubt they really care about you now.
Don't fool yourself, try improving your social/speaking skill and then go out and get your mack on.. you don't need those booth babes...
The fish were found in Indonesia, not Thailand. Sumatra is in Indonesia. I guess the submiter missed the first line of the article.
umm.. unfortunately it is... obesity is a big problem in Canada. There are too many ppl here who would rather stay at home and watch TV rather than go outside. And the fact that its freakin cold all the time doesn't help too much either.
actually tea contains caffine, so it would be considered an intoxicating beverage.. lol
I am with you on this. As a programmer, I feel that this is utter crap. Everyone says that they are a monoply. Please tell me how they are a monoply? You can always buy another OS and delete MS Win, they are not forcing you to use their OS. You can always install Linux and BSD if you want, they are FREE, unless you mean to imply that they are not valid systems. Apple on the other hand forces me to use their OS on their hard to upgrade system. Thats a company that I would ask to open up.
This is a LAW made up by ppl who know nothing about technology and by IT lobbyist who can't compete..
you mean to say that you've never heard of Google and Photoshop.. :p
umm.. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or ignorant.
if you're not familiar with the facts of the case, here you go:
RIM is a Canadian Company that sells the blackBerry in Canada and the US.
RIM has a patent on the way an e-mail is sent in Canada.
Their server that does this stuff is in Canada.
All e-mails sent are routed to their server in Canada.
NTP is a company that just collects patents.
NTP has a US patent on the stuff that RIM does.
They have not put any money into research and do not have a product.
They do not employ anyone.
Please tell me what is this innovation that you're talking about. Anyone can dream of flying cars and robots taking over the world, and Hollywood has clearly shown us that. But it takes more than just a dream to create a product, it takes hours of research, $$'s and commitment to actually make it work. RIM has created a product and employes a lot of ppl, NTP hasn't put any money into research and doesn't employ anyone, they don't even have a product. So why would you support them?
In some games cutscenes are good, in some games they might be bad.
In some senseless shooting games, it might be pointless to have cutscenes, but in some games where a story is told its nice to watch them.
I am playing Age Of Mythology right now and I love the cutscenes. After every mission that I complete I see a small cinematic on whats going on and I love it since I still feel I am immersed in the environment, and it gives me a small breather before going into the next campaign.
What you gon' do with all that junk? ...
All that junk inside your trunk?
Haha.. u think ur company is like the UN check out mine.
We're all Canadian, just some not born here.
2 Guys born in England
2 Guys born in India
Boss born in Canada, grew up in Europe and the Middle East
2 ppl, 1 girl and 1 guy born in Serbia
1 girl born in the phillipines.
1 Coop kid born in Taiwan
1 girl born in Iran
3 Guys born in Canada (not including the boss)
1 Guy born in Brazil.
But then again, the vancouver area is very very multicultural.
Doesn't Bell South now sound like TicketMaster?
U get charged for the ticket, then you get charged a convenience charge for buying it online, then u pay another 2.50 for them to e-mail it to you. Splendid indeed.
Population of Europe>US
these sales stats seem to be primarily of computer sales from big companies like Dell and HP.
I dunno about the states, but here in Vancouver, Canada, most ppl I know get computers not from Dell and HP, but from local stores that sell generic computers. It seems that these stats are a bit off.