Did you know the orientation of the logo is part of the design? If you have a connector with logo, the logo should be topside when it fits. I am not kidding you, it doesn't help shit because not every manufacturer has implemented this right, but it's still part of the spec and it works 80% of the time.
And it's silly, only halve the connector types would fit in both orientations after a quick look. If everyone would have used type-B, mini-A or micro-B then the problem would be gone. But they used type-A as 'default' connector for everything. Which has only 1 plus side: you can build "PCB" connectors, which is cheap, as you don't really need a connector. It's just part of your PCB design.
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Try this: Open blender (pre 2.5 version). Load a model in format X, and save it as format Y. Repeat for 10 models. Write down all your frustrations.
Where I live almost all intersections have different lights for turns, so they offer 100% protection if everybody would follow the rules. (You could just drive by the lights, not by watching the other traffic, if nobody would drive trough red lights)
It's starting to get so rare that you see turns without separate lights that they are marking those with extra signs to warn the cars that pedestrians might cross. Or they give the pedestrians early green, so that the pedestrians are on the road already when you get green in your car.
Like I said, I cannot speak for the US. But in most European countries there are rules about safety times between the end of green and the start of green of a conflicting direction. You need to ensure that there is enough time between this to clear the road for the conflicting direction.
Now, if you don't give pedestrians green, then you don't need to wait for them to clear. This saves quite some time, especially when you have 4 lanes that the pedestrians need to cross. And at busy intersections, getting as much traffic trough as possible is very important.
a cyclist often has to wait ten minutes for an SUV to pull up behind and trigger the metal detector.
This comes down to configuration. Detection of cyclists is possible, but many locations are wrongly configured. Just complain loudly at the local authorities they have the power to fix this. This isn't a difficult change (for our controllers it just adjusting a single number)
Also, if you can see the loops in the road (those black squares) put your bike on the edges, not in the center. Loops are more sensitive there.
Pedestrians are impossible to detect this way, sometimes they use pressure plates. But buttons are cheaper.
Let me fix that for you: "Most software engineering students don't know how to write code. So it doesn't matter at all."
I did a embedded software study. And in the 3th year we had a "software testing" class. We where required to write a simple "solve the ABC formula" program in plain C. And then test it. We had 2 hours per week for that class. We worked in groups of 2. After 4 weeks, that's 8 hours for the people that failed math. Half of the groups did NOT have something that even ran a basic test. So not something that could read keyboard input, do a bit of math and print it back on the screen. Best case, all the real programmers teamed up with other programmers, and only half the class would fail basic programming. Worst case 75% of the class couldn't program. And this wasn't some first year assignment, it was the 3th year. After 3 programming classes. And no, those people didn't fail those classes, and they didn't fail the "software testing" class.
These where not the people that where going to design the next best sorting algorithm. No, these where the people which will build your next ATM, E-Voting machine, traffic light and car computer.
I have 0 respect for the education system. And the only reason I was there was to get a piece of paper at the end.
What else do you think controls them? Little gnomes?
Computerized traffic lights are almost as old as traffic lights. There has been a phase of electro-mechanical lights, but that did not last long. While I cannot speak for the US, in most European locations you want the pedestrian push buttons to function. If there is no pedestrian then you can skip the pedestrian phase, which saves a lot of time. As pedestrians are slow.
You just think that because you do care. I honestly didn't care at all till the age of 24. Things have changed after then, I started to care, and started to act on it. Which is (slowly) showing success.
There is also a group of men that do have success, without even caring. But this doesn't include geeks in general. And they tend to leave broken hearths behind. And there is social pressure which some people feel to get 'hooked up' forcing them to make wrong choices.
Wake me up when it tells me when I'll get hooked up in the first place.
You will if you really wanted to. But what I noticed with most geeks is that they don't care. They wouldn't mind it, but don't care enough to really go for it.
But numbers do matter. And if you can rush in a base, killing all probes/drones/SVCs, you'll win. And you only need 1 more unit then the enemy for that.
Some people are just good at these games. I once played a C&C game with a few friends. And all of a sudden the game started to lag, at which point 1 person was moving his army to attack. 15 minutes later we where all dead. He had managed to build an army triple the size of all the others. We even tried 3 vs 1, and he still won. Later, watching what he did, it came down to boosting your resource gathering, all the time. Greatly boosting his production speed. In the end his numbers just didn't matter for what kind of positioning we took. We where just overrun.
That's not true, it takes time. And knowing a few of these kinds of players, I can tell you, they value time. Replace time with money and you got about the same thing. They don't just calculate the best possible equipment, but also the fastest way to get it, and the best order to get things in.
The single player in SC2 is quite good. I bought the game just for the single player (after a 7 hour trial someone gave me). Each mission is different, and fun in it's own way. I ran trough the game on normal difficulty, which took me 14 hours to complete the campaign I think. Only having to restart a few missions.
But that is not the end of it, the game has 3 achievements per campaign map. 1 "complete all objectives" achievement, which is easy to get, unless you miss a bonus object. 1 achievement for "normal" and 1 for "hard". The hard achievements are quite difficult, and require that you work for them. Which makes the replay value much higher in my case, as I like to work for those achievements. Some require rush tactics, one of the achievements requires that you don't lose any building on hard. But you start out with a bunker on the other side of the map, requiring you to rush to it to defend it.
I think you can also match up coop games against AI, if that's more your style. But I haven't tried that yet with random players.
I use T9, it's not perfect, but beats the hell out of the other option (whatever it's called). But then again, I only write short SMS messages (yes, SMS = Short Message Service, so kill me) if you are writing a book or letters, use something better then your damn phone.
That's why I only buy PC games. They might have online activation DRM. But I wait with buying till they are cracked. This way I support the developers and am also sure I can still play the game 10 years later.
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Good thing I don't live in the UK/US.
Great plan to clear up the checkup lines! Next time I need to fly I'll send a terrorist ahead to blow away the line.
Did you know the orientation of the logo is part of the design? If you have a connector with logo, the logo should be topside when it fits. I am not kidding you, it doesn't help shit because not every manufacturer has implemented this right, but it's still part of the spec and it works 80% of the time.
And it's silly, only halve the connector types would fit in both orientations after a quick look. If everyone would have used type-B, mini-A or micro-B then the problem would be gone. But they used type-A as 'default' connector for everything. Which has only 1 plus side: you can build "PCB" connectors, which is cheap, as you don't really need a connector. It's just part of your PCB design.
Try this: Open blender (pre 2.5 version). Load a model in format X, and save it as format Y. Repeat for 10 models. Write down all your frustrations.
But there are no sharks to attach it to in space!
It'd have been better if there'd been a demo, but many publishers don't release demos these days.
Look on steam, many games have demos.
Well, there is not always a phase so to say. I explain it here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1858882&cid=34172586
Where I live almost all intersections have different lights for turns, so they offer 100% protection if everybody would follow the rules. (You could just drive by the lights, not by watching the other traffic, if nobody would drive trough red lights)
It's starting to get so rare that you see turns without separate lights that they are marking those with extra signs to warn the cars that pedestrians might cross. Or they give the pedestrians early green, so that the pedestrians are on the road already when you get green in your car.
Like I said, I cannot speak for the US. But in most European countries there are rules about safety times between the end of green and the start of green of a conflicting direction. You need to ensure that there is enough time between this to clear the road for the conflicting direction.
Now, if you don't give pedestrians green, then you don't need to wait for them to clear. This saves quite some time, especially when you have 4 lanes that the pedestrians need to cross. And at busy intersections, getting as much traffic trough as possible is very important.
a cyclist often has to wait ten minutes for an SUV to pull up behind and trigger the metal detector.
This comes down to configuration. Detection of cyclists is possible, but many locations are wrongly configured. Just complain loudly at the local authorities they have the power to fix this. This isn't a difficult change (for our controllers it just adjusting a single number)
Also, if you can see the loops in the road (those black squares) put your bike on the edges, not in the center. Loops are more sensitive there.
Pedestrians are impossible to detect this way, sometimes they use pressure plates. But buttons are cheaper.
Let me fix that for you:
"Most software engineering students don't know how to write code. So it doesn't matter at all."
I did a embedded software study. And in the 3th year we had a "software testing" class. We where required to write a simple "solve the ABC formula" program in plain C. And then test it. We had 2 hours per week for that class. We worked in groups of 2. After 4 weeks, that's 8 hours for the people that failed math. Half of the groups did NOT have something that even ran a basic test. So not something that could read keyboard input, do a bit of math and print it back on the screen. Best case, all the real programmers teamed up with other programmers, and only half the class would fail basic programming. Worst case 75% of the class couldn't program.
And this wasn't some first year assignment, it was the 3th year. After 3 programming classes.
And no, those people didn't fail those classes, and they didn't fail the "software testing" class.
These where not the people that where going to design the next best sorting algorithm. No, these where the people which will build your next ATM, E-Voting machine, traffic light and car computer.
I have 0 respect for the education system. And the only reason I was there was to get a piece of paper at the end.
I was going to say something like, shoot me for not being native english and heavy dyslextic.
But I figured I could just release my post as GPLv2 so you can fix it yourself.
Most computer science students don't know how to write code. So it doesn't matter at all.
What else do you think controls them? Little gnomes?
Computerized traffic lights are almost as old as traffic lights. There has been a phase of electro-mechanical lights, but that did not last long. While I cannot speak for the US, in most European locations you want the pedestrian push buttons to function. If there is no pedestrian then you can skip the pedestrian phase, which saves a lot of time. As pedestrians are slow.
(I work at a traffic light company)
Frankly I don't give a shit who gets pissed off. The objective is scientific understanding, not pissing people off or not.
It's just a very nice side-effect.
Walk up into Paypal HQ and be all like "Yo, gimme my account back!"
If that won't work, try again but bring a shotgun with you.
They pretend they don’t care.
You just think that because you do care.
I honestly didn't care at all till the age of 24. Things have changed after then, I started to care, and started to act on it. Which is (slowly) showing success.
There is also a group of men that do have success, without even caring. But this doesn't include geeks in general. And they tend to leave broken hearths behind. And there is social pressure which some people feel to get 'hooked up' forcing them to make wrong choices.
Wake me up when it tells me when I'll get hooked up in the first place.
You will if you really wanted to. But what I noticed with most geeks is that they don't care. They wouldn't mind it, but don't care enough to really go for it.
But numbers do matter. And if you can rush in a base, killing all probes/drones/SVCs, you'll win. And you only need 1 more unit then the enemy for that.
Some people are just good at these games. I once played a C&C game with a few friends. And all of a sudden the game started to lag, at which point 1 person was moving his army to attack. 15 minutes later we where all dead. He had managed to build an army triple the size of all the others. We even tried 3 vs 1, and he still won. Later, watching what he did, it came down to boosting your resource gathering, all the time. Greatly boosting his production speed. In the end his numbers just didn't matter for what kind of positioning we took. We where just overrun.
That's not true, it takes time. And knowing a few of these kinds of players, I can tell you, they value time. Replace time with money and you got about the same thing. They don't just calculate the best possible equipment, but also the fastest way to get it, and the best order to get things in.
The single player in SC2 is quite good. I bought the game just for the single player (after a 7 hour trial someone gave me). Each mission is different, and fun in it's own way. I ran trough the game on normal difficulty, which took me 14 hours to complete the campaign I think. Only having to restart a few missions.
But that is not the end of it, the game has 3 achievements per campaign map. 1 "complete all objectives" achievement, which is easy to get, unless you miss a bonus object. 1 achievement for "normal" and 1 for "hard". The hard achievements are quite difficult, and require that you work for them. Which makes the replay value much higher in my case, as I like to work for those achievements.
Some require rush tactics, one of the achievements requires that you don't lose any building on hard. But you start out with a bunker on the other side of the map, requiring you to rush to it to defend it.
I think you can also match up coop games against AI, if that's more your style. But I haven't tried that yet with random players.
I use T9, it's not perfect, but beats the hell out of the other option (whatever it's called). But then again, I only write short SMS messages (yes, SMS = Short Message Service, so kill me) if you are writing a book or letters, use something better then your damn phone.
We have that already, it's called "life". Pretty interesting concept, but it contains no pause and rewind buttons.
That's why I only buy PC games. They might have online activation DRM. But I wait with buying till they are cracked. This way I support the developers and am also sure I can still play the game 10 years later.
It's vendor/version lock-in.
In other words, Microsoft overdid it. They just wanted to vendor lock-in not the version lock-in. And they are having a hard time recovering from it.
Isn't oracles java just OpenJDK? Which is GPL, and thus can be copied in the way google did (if they did)?
Next up, Linus sues the world for each copy of the kernel sources?