Oh, please let me introduce you to a common problem. Assume you have a nice hot pot of coffee. Now you stir it and at the end you put a shot of milk in. Now, I really can't tell you how hot any given point inside the mug is within the next 5 minutes. But, let me share a long term prediction it'll be within a degree of room temperature in 30 minutes. Enjoy!
Also, e.g. why should Europe wait a friggin' year to watch 'Lost' or 'Two and a Half Men'? Especially if you prefer it in the original language anyways? Give me a reasonable option to get it on release (preferably in HD) and I'll gladly pay up. Waiting a year for it - ain't gonna happen.
OK, I did actually read this blog he wrote and yes I think his position is valid. To summarize: Coding in your free time does not make you a good coder. Neither does not coding in your free time make you a balanced person. Both unrelated, thankyouverymuch. This is all in all a discussion you can have or simply ignore.
The one point I'd like to make is... have your read this guys other posts? To summarize: He's a little young fuck with little experience raining down on everyone. It's mixture of the standard troll and Mr. Whiney-Whiney; with a focus on whiney-whiney.
Cheers.
1) Countries don't do an even job testing their students. In the US, everyone gets tested, even kids with severe emotional disabilities (meaning from broken homes and such). In some countries, only kids who are in the "college track" schools get tested. Yes, in some places young kids are tracked like that. In Germany students go to the Gymnasium, Hauptschule, or Realschulabschluss depending on ability. The Gymnasium is for kids who are going to university, the Realschulabschluss is for kids going directly in to the work force. Unless they changed it since last I checked, they only test kids in the Gymnasium with these higher level math tests.
Meeep... they check Hauptschule and Realschule against the tests your junior high does. And test those from grades 10-12 of the Gymnasium against your high school attendees of comparable grades.
So to retort the fallacy, why don't they test kids that dropped out after junior high with those higher level math tests?...See that easy.
While 14 people don't seem much, they actually are in comparison with the ususal minimum for these kind of studies. As a rule of thumb, you should have 6 or more participants in a study to get the paper accepted (as a technical issue to fulfill).
If there'd be more funds, maybe participants could actually be paid. As it stands now, you got to lure them in with the promise of free food.
Depends on what you are looking for. Admittedly for a narrow range of subjects there are wikis for which authors get voted for and peer-reviewed by editors and the community. The computational neuroscience community would be a good example (cf. http://www.scholarpedia.com/). It's quite comfortable to have the original author/inventor of an idea helping out the community.
Because the prosthetic is controlled by the very neurons which are normally used to control the monkeys now restrained arm. The research focused on using already 'trained' and known neurons within the brain and how to interface them with a prosthetic. Afaik, there's currently no research going on about using 'unnatural' or to the brain formerly unknown limbs.
Considering Germany, rather look at the three big ones in Berlin (HU, TU, FU; all free) or check out LMU Munich (moderate fee of around 1k Euros per year).
Good one on at least number one. If I had some mod points you'd have them. Personally I'd change number four to 'write something non trivial' in a functional language. E.g., maybe even a reimplementation of the interpreter of number one in Common Lisp.
Well, just to get this somewhat straight. Solanum is a 'large' organism of a plant/vine/small tree, so we are basically talking about your run of the mill tomatoes and potatoes here (yes, I already hear those zombie biologists heaving stones towards me). So, the next question is what the solanum virus would be... fiction, just have a look at 'The Zombie Survival Guide' by Max Brooks. I think I'll just have to get me some strong liquor and reread that story again... kind of, hilarious.
Tbh, these extreme price differences between the US and Europe are beyond me too. Would be interesting to know what the reasoning behind this, apart from making more money, is.
On another note, their compability between different major versions is really good. This in turn leads many studios and freelancers to disregard fast upgrades and sometimes switch later and sidestepping around 2-3 major releases. If new features aren't that needed, they do just represent icing on the cake. But if a lot of them have accumulated it makes sense to get them (and of course to have some costs to reduce your income tax wise).
Ok, I'll bite. Apparently your problem is, that you do not see the value in the actual product. The cost to purchase any of them is nothing compared to the money you will make while using them. These products do not only offer you quality but also significant speed in your production environment (assuming you are familiar with them and not just some warez kiddie that thinks that he needs those products just because they cost some money).
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Checked his website and didn't find any? Did someone have more luck?
Oh, please let me introduce you to a common problem. Assume you have a nice hot pot of coffee. Now you stir it and at the end you put a shot of milk in. Now, I really can't tell you how hot any given point inside the mug is within the next 5 minutes. But, let me share a long term prediction it'll be within a degree of room temperature in 30 minutes. Enjoy!
Agreed.
Also, e.g. why should Europe wait a friggin' year to watch 'Lost' or 'Two and a Half Men'? Especially if you prefer it in the original language anyways? Give me a reasonable option to get it on release (preferably in HD) and I'll gladly pay up. Waiting a year for it - ain't gonna happen.
... sine to the rescue.
... time to get a share in the Korean Starcraft pro-gaming teams. Oh my, wars might get to be fun to watch again. =)
... and the obligatory quote thus said:
Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
OK, I did actually read this blog he wrote and yes I think his position is valid. To summarize: Coding in your free time does not make you a good coder. Neither does not coding in your free time make you a balanced person. Both unrelated, thankyouverymuch. This is all in all a discussion you can have or simply ignore.
... have your read this guys other posts? To summarize: He's a little young fuck with little experience raining down on everyone. It's mixture of the standard troll and Mr. Whiney-Whiney; with a focus on whiney-whiney.
Cheers.
The one point I'd like to make is
1) Countries don't do an even job testing their students. In the US, everyone gets tested, even kids with severe emotional disabilities (meaning from broken homes and such). In some countries, only kids who are in the "college track" schools get tested. Yes, in some places young kids are tracked like that. In Germany students go to the Gymnasium, Hauptschule, or Realschulabschluss depending on ability. The Gymnasium is for kids who are going to university, the Realschulabschluss is for kids going directly in to the work force. Unless they changed it since last I checked, they only test kids in the Gymnasium with these higher level math tests.
Meeep ... they check Hauptschule and Realschule against the tests your junior high does. And test those from grades 10-12 of the Gymnasium against your high school attendees of comparable grades.
...See that easy.
So to retort the fallacy, why don't they test kids that dropped out after junior high with those higher level math tests?
1.) 'Shaun of the dead'-style, page 2 second to last sentence.
2.) Already there. Zombies can be 'killed' and then enter the Removed group, final defeat is modelled by the parameter alpha (page 3).
3.) Touché.
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While 14 people don't seem much, they actually are in comparison with the ususal minimum for these kind of studies. As a rule of thumb, you should have 6 or more participants in a study to get the paper accepted (as a technical issue to fulfill).
If there'd be more funds, maybe participants could actually be paid. As it stands now, you got to lure them in with the promise of free food.
Depends on what you are looking for. Admittedly for a narrow range of subjects there are wikis for which authors get voted for and peer-reviewed by editors and the community. The computational neuroscience community would be a good example (cf. http://www.scholarpedia.com/). It's quite comfortable to have the original author/inventor of an idea helping out the community.
Because the prosthetic is controlled by the very neurons which are normally used to control the monkeys now restrained arm. The research focused on using already 'trained' and known neurons within the brain and how to interface them with a prosthetic. Afaik, there's currently no research going on about using 'unnatural' or to the brain formerly unknown limbs.
Considering Germany, rather look at the three big ones in Berlin (HU, TU, FU; all free) or check out LMU Munich (moderate fee of around 1k Euros per year).
Please give me a break ... who voted him insightful? Apart from the spelling issues he just threw out a flamebait.
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Nice 1st post. Made it to the German Newspaper Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,533040,00.html
..will it run on Linux? (Hint: No, only Windows is supported.)
Good one on at least number one. If I had some mod points you'd have them. Personally I'd change number four to 'write something non trivial' in a functional language. E.g., maybe even a reimplementation of the interpreter of number one in Common Lisp.
Well, just to get this somewhat straight. Solanum is a 'large' organism of a plant/vine/small tree, so we are basically talking about your run of the mill tomatoes and potatoes here (yes, I already hear those zombie biologists heaving stones towards me). So, the next question is what the solanum virus would be ... fiction, just have a look at 'The Zombie Survival Guide' by Max Brooks. I think I'll just have to get me some strong liquor and reread that story again ... kind of, hilarious.
Wow, could someone please mod the parent down ... this is just ill informed.
Care to use the normal font next time?
Easy ...expect to pay the double amount you pay now at least.
Tbh, these extreme price differences between the US and Europe are beyond me too. Would be interesting to know what the reasoning behind this, apart from making more money, is.
On another note, their compability between different major versions is really good. This in turn leads many studios and freelancers to disregard fast upgrades and sometimes switch later and sidestepping around 2-3 major releases. If new features aren't that needed, they do just represent icing on the cake. But if a lot of them have accumulated it makes sense to get them (and of course to have some costs to reduce your income tax wise).
Ok, I'll bite. Apparently your problem is, that you do not see the value in the actual product. The cost to purchase any of them is nothing compared to the money you will make while using them. These products do not only offer you quality but also significant speed in your production environment (assuming you are familiar with them and not just some warez kiddie that thinks that he needs those products just because they cost some money).