Plenty of organisms use silicon, diatoms first come to mind, but they use it mostly for protective shells. Silicon is good to make hard stuff, carbon is good for everything else. There's really no puzzle here.
It will only take a few weeks before someone figures out how to mod it and load custom software on it. It's going to do a lot more than play those 30 selected games.
In a universe of nearly infinite size (from our perspective at least), there's bound to be other more advanced species somewhere. Many of them too. If it was possible to collapse the universe with tiny black holes, one of them would have already done it and we would not be here to talk about it.
I get what you mean, but these parts of the interface are extremely clunky. But even worse than that, they migrated all their tools to an ActiveX interface that relies on Internet Explorer... and it really isn't all that stable, randomly stopping to work (you have to restart ArcGIS when it happens).
But even worse than that, it requires IE to be set at the default security level, which is not all that secure. Since I don't use IE, and want to minimize the risks to my lab machine, I usually set it to the maximum security level everywhere, which in effects disables big parts of it. While not as ideal as completely removing the software would be (if it was possible...), it reduces risks considerably. But wait a second... you guessed right. ArcGIS will just not allow you to use any of its built-in tools when you do that. How wonderful. Who's the genius that thought it was a good idea to have such a large piece of software being dependent on the worse web browser ever in existence?
So while I agree with you that "updating" interfaces can go too far (yucky gnome 3 is a good example), in this case, an update is badly needed. But I suppose they will be forced to do it soon enough, with MS supposedly discontinuing IE and touting their new browser that is possibly not just a fresh coat of paint...
I'm not surprised with this. GIS is almost a mono-culture that has been dominated by ESRI since forever. Their software costs in the thousands, yet crashes all the time and a lot of the included tools just don't work. Some parts of the interface have not changed since the 90s and they keep building on this dysfunctional foundation. Working with ArcGIS is a pain in the rear, yet for a lot of what ESRI software does, there is no alternative. Whenever I can I code my own stuff (using GDAL http://www.gdal.org/) and do all I can in QGIS (http://www.qgis.org/), but for a lot of tasks, you are stuck with ArcGIS and other ESRI tools. The market is more than ready for a new player that will make reliable software (whether commercial or open source, doesn't matter to most as they are used to pay through the roof for ESRI software anyway).
Actually, to be politically correct, books are not "tree killers" or "dead tree" editions anymore, they are now referred to as "carbon sequestration editions."
Unless you apply for a very specific project that needs very specific knowledge, knowing a language well is not going to help you much. You need to be able to show that you have a good logic, that you are able to solve problems quickly and efficiently. Most of the time, this can be done in many languages, and most projects have different parts done in different ones. Knowing the syntax to one language doesn't help you much when you have to code in another one. Logic on the other hand works everywhere. Good thinking is what is needed to find good solutions to problems... and many languages can be used. Sometimes, a specific language will be better than another one, that's where good thinking and logic will be useful. You can always refer to Google for syntax examples, and good thinking and logic will help you filter out most of the crap and find the good examples.
When I'm helping HR decide on who they hire, I always ask the person we interview logic questions, ask them to find solutions to problems I've encountered in the past and see what they come up with. If they find a working solution it's good. If they propose a solution I've actually put in production and I think was the best, it's even better (compatible thoughts, good for team work). If they find a solution I consider better than mine, then it's excellent.
This, of course, doesn't tell me how good they actually are at implementing them, but I can always coach them, and if they do have good thinking and logic, they will eventually become good at it. Though frankly, those who showed good thinking in interviews were usually the fastest learners too and I rarely had a problems with people hired using this technique.
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What about all the people who worked on BSD and Darwin? I don't know if it reaches 10k, but it's still a lot of people...
They quote 20w when playing back DVDs. I don't remember which article (from a mac website) was quoting 9.5w when doing basic work (like email, web browsing, word processing, etc, what I tend to do most of the time). So here are the numbers.:)
Thanks to the mac mini, my pc can stay off pretty much all the time, and the power consumption of the mac mini is like 1/20 of what my pc with tons of hard disks and pretty demanding video card needed.:) (9.5w vs over 190w for my pc...) Having an LCD monitor will also lower the bill as it use 1/3 of the power of an equivalent CRT. Not to mention all the time saved since I dont have anything to do with OSX compared to linux constant need of time consuming administration.
Also, I use the subway / bus, much cheaper than owning a car, and I actualy get to work faster with the subway than in a car waiting in line in a traffic jam. I use my bike during the summer.
Quote: Place the monitor directly on the desk, don't place it on a desktop case or a monitor stand. Make sure you do not have to look up to see the entire screen. Many monitor manuals recommend to adjust the monitor so that you look onto the center of the CRT / TFT, but I prefer to look from above onto the monitor, with my eyes just above the case, in a distance of 1.5 times the monitor diameter.
The problem if you look down is that you are going to get awful neck problems with time. Your eyes should always point a bit above the middle of your monitor when you have your neck and chest set in a straight line.
That is completly beyond the point. Cube's goal is to be FUN. Not to compete in the commercial games market.
It is real 3d, but to keep things simple, the rooms are limited to what you call 2.5D. That's why it playable even on old computers. If you want room over room, you can always make md2 models and insert them in your level, it works marvels and still looks good, if you are good with ligthning of course.
The working of the engine is actualy very clever, try editing for it, it's done in the game itself and it's very fast. I have contributed a couple of levels for this release and after having edited for Cube, I'd hardly go back to a "real 3d engine" because Cube is so much more FUN to edit for.
So, next time, before posting something like this, maybe you'd want to consider the actual goal of the project.
As a Québecer, I can tell you that it was true before the dot com boom, but now that there's more demand than offer for job, corporations are increasingly pushing for more formal clothing. Even clerks in groceries like IGA are forced to wear a tie.
A side note, when I started wearing a tie every day, people stopped babbling bullshit about how the systems sucks (windows;), that we must be incompetent if it BSOD on them and took me much more seriously than just another in house tech support guy. Formal clothing has that magical effect on people's minds... It imposes respect.
Isn't copying Windows rather useless? If you want something that works like windows, why not simply use windows? Or why not use a window manager like IceWM?
Why copy a bad interface anyway? I thought that everyone should have learned that copying Apple at least gives you a much better interface.:)
Seriously, I don't get it, if you make something new, you might as well try to do it different, or improve on what already exist, not simply clone something.
Last point, I think that the failure of the Wine project has shown by now that emulation is HARD to get right and will never be 100% reliable. I doubt they will ever get good compatibility with windows applications, it's just close to impossible to do if you dont have access to the source.
This is totaly silent. Water resistant, foldable, etc. It's a very good seller where I work, although it has a Mac layout, it will work on a pc (windows and alt key inverted). Contrary to what most review say, I didnt find it hard to use it, you get used to the feeling pretty quickly. The only drawback is that it has no numerical keypad, but no one uses the numerical keypad for coding anyway. The best news is that it's USB, so you can have it connected aside your old clunky ps2 keyboard if you are a PC user.:)
Since it's in soft plastic, it's totaly silent. I doesn't emit any sound.:)
That is the only good gaming PDA. The commercial line up isn't that great so far, but it does play the zillions of Palm games... and it has decent battery life! Which can't be said of pocket pc.
And to make the slashdot crowd even happier, it doesn't run a Microsoft OS.:)
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Never said carbon wasn't good at making hard stuff.
They are not fossils, these organisms live today and they make a large part of phytoplakton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . They make their own shells called frustules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Plenty of organisms use silicon, diatoms first come to mind, but they use it mostly for protective shells. Silicon is good to make hard stuff, carbon is good for everything else. There's really no puzzle here.
It will only take a few weeks before someone figures out how to mod it and load custom software on it. It's going to do a lot more than play those 30 selected games.
In a universe of nearly infinite size (from our perspective at least), there's bound to be other more advanced species somewhere. Many of them too. If it was possible to collapse the universe with tiny black holes, one of them would have already done it and we would not be here to talk about it.
Uuuuh... are they just remaking Brutal Doom in a modern engine?
I get what you mean, but these parts of the interface are extremely clunky. But even worse than that, they migrated all their tools to an ActiveX interface that relies on Internet Explorer... and it really isn't all that stable, randomly stopping to work (you have to restart ArcGIS when it happens).
But even worse than that, it requires IE to be set at the default security level, which is not all that secure. Since I don't use IE, and want to minimize the risks to my lab machine, I usually set it to the maximum security level everywhere, which in effects disables big parts of it. While not as ideal as completely removing the software would be (if it was possible...), it reduces risks considerably. But wait a second... you guessed right. ArcGIS will just not allow you to use any of its built-in tools when you do that. How wonderful. Who's the genius that thought it was a good idea to have such a large piece of software being dependent on the worse web browser ever in existence?
So while I agree with you that "updating" interfaces can go too far (yucky gnome 3 is a good example), in this case, an update is badly needed. But I suppose they will be forced to do it soon enough, with MS supposedly discontinuing IE and touting their new browser that is possibly not just a fresh coat of paint...
I'm not surprised with this. GIS is almost a mono-culture that has been dominated by ESRI since forever. Their software costs in the thousands, yet crashes all the time and a lot of the included tools just don't work. Some parts of the interface have not changed since the 90s and they keep building on this dysfunctional foundation. Working with ArcGIS is a pain in the rear, yet for a lot of what ESRI software does, there is no alternative. Whenever I can I code my own stuff (using GDAL http://www.gdal.org/) and do all I can in QGIS (http://www.qgis.org/), but for a lot of tasks, you are stuck with ArcGIS and other ESRI tools. The market is more than ready for a new player that will make reliable software (whether commercial or open source, doesn't matter to most as they are used to pay through the roof for ESRI software anyway).
I think they played way too much Ticket to Ride. There's no bonus points for the longest route in real life.
Actually, to be politically correct, books are not "tree killers" or "dead tree" editions anymore, they are now referred to as "carbon sequestration editions."
Why... regular expressions of course! I could have saved myself endless hours of dumbfounded confusion!
Unless you apply for a very specific project that needs very specific knowledge, knowing a language well is not going to help you much. You need to be able to show that you have a good logic, that you are able to solve problems quickly and efficiently. Most of the time, this can be done in many languages, and most projects have different parts done in different ones. Knowing the syntax to one language doesn't help you much when you have to code in another one. Logic on the other hand works everywhere. Good thinking is what is needed to find good solutions to problems... and many languages can be used. Sometimes, a specific language will be better than another one, that's where good thinking and logic will be useful. You can always refer to Google for syntax examples, and good thinking and logic will help you filter out most of the crap and find the good examples.
When I'm helping HR decide on who they hire, I always ask the person we interview logic questions, ask them to find solutions to problems I've encountered in the past and see what they come up with. If they find a working solution it's good. If they propose a solution I've actually put in production and I think was the best, it's even better (compatible thoughts, good for team work). If they find a solution I consider better than mine, then it's excellent.
This, of course, doesn't tell me how good they actually are at implementing them, but I can always coach them, and if they do have good thinking and logic, they will eventually become good at it. Though frankly, those who showed good thinking in interviews were usually the fastest learners too and I rarely had a problems with people hired using this technique.
What about all the people who worked on BSD and Darwin? I don't know if it reaches 10k, but it's still a lot of people...
Sorry, my mistake, it's actualy 20w when doing office work, 28w or something while playing DVD, and 9.5w when doing absolutely nothing for hours.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20050216/apple- mac-mini-computer-06.html
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They quote 20w when playing back DVDs. I don't remember which article (from a mac website) was quoting 9.5w when doing basic work (like email, web browsing, word processing, etc, what I tend to do most of the time). So here are the numbers.
Thanks to the mac mini, my pc can stay off pretty much all the time, and the power consumption of the mac mini is like 1/20 of what my pc with tons of hard disks and pretty demanding video card needed. :) (9.5w vs over 190w for my pc...) Having an LCD monitor will also lower the bill as it use 1/3 of the power of an equivalent CRT. Not to mention all the time saved since I dont have anything to do with OSX compared to linux constant need of time consuming administration.
Also, I use the subway / bus, much cheaper than owning a car, and I actualy get to work faster with the subway than in a car waiting in line in a traffic jam. I use my bike during the summer.
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Place the monitor directly on the desk, don't place it on a desktop case or a monitor stand. Make sure you do not have to look up to see the entire screen. Many monitor manuals recommend to adjust the monitor so that you look onto the center of the CRT / TFT, but I prefer to look from above onto the monitor, with my eyes just above the case, in a distance of 1.5 times the monitor diameter.
The problem if you look down is that you are going to get awful neck problems with time. Your eyes should always point a bit above the middle of your monitor when you have your neck and chest set in a straight line.
Edit autoexec.cfg and change "invmouse 0" to "invmouse 1". It's in the Doc.
That is completly beyond the point. Cube's goal is to be FUN. Not to compete in the commercial games market.
It is real 3d, but to keep things simple, the rooms are limited to what you call 2.5D. That's why it playable even on old computers. If you want room over room, you can always make md2 models and insert them in your level, it works marvels and still looks good, if you are good with ligthning of course.
The working of the engine is actualy very clever, try editing for it, it's done in the game itself and it's very fast. I have contributed a couple of levels for this release and after having edited for Cube, I'd hardly go back to a "real 3d engine" because Cube is so much more FUN to edit for.
So, next time, before posting something like this, maybe you'd want to consider the actual goal of the project.
As a Québecer, I can tell you that it was true before the dot com boom, but now that there's more demand than offer for job, corporations are increasingly pushing for more formal clothing. Even clerks in groceries like IGA are forced to wear a tie.
;), that we must be incompetent if it BSOD on them and took me much more seriously than just another in house tech support guy. Formal clothing has that magical effect on people's minds... It imposes respect.
A side note, when I started wearing a tie every day, people stopped babbling bullshit about how the systems sucks (windows
Isn't copying Windows rather useless? If you want something that works like windows, why not simply use windows? Or why not use a window manager like IceWM?
:)
Why copy a bad interface anyway? I thought that everyone should have learned that copying Apple at least gives you a much better interface.
Seriously, I don't get it, if you make something new, you might as well try to do it different, or improve on what already exist, not simply clone something.
Last point, I think that the failure of the Wine project has shown by now that emulation is HARD to get right and will never be 100% reliable. I doubt they will ever get good compatibility with windows applications, it's just close to impossible to do if you dont have access to the source.
There's a Contra game on PS2 that is 2d... and you can get Duke Nukem: Manhattan project for PC (even runs in wine) thats like 10$ now.
http://www.coolmacstuff.com/catalog/?action=Detail s&sku=8
:)
:)
This is totaly silent. Water resistant, foldable, etc. It's a very good seller where I work, although it has a Mac layout, it will work on a pc (windows and alt key inverted). Contrary to what most review say, I didnt find it hard to use it, you get used to the feeling pretty quickly. The only drawback is that it has no numerical keypad, but no one uses the numerical keypad for coding anyway. The best news is that it's USB, so you can have it connected aside your old clunky ps2 keyboard if you are a PC user.
Since it's in soft plastic, it's totaly silent. I doesn't emit any sound.
No. :)
Hmmm, Zodiac anyone?
:)
http://www.tapwave.com/product/index.asp
That is the only good gaming PDA. The commercial line up isn't that great so far, but it does play the zillions of Palm games... and it has decent battery life! Which can't be said of pocket pc.
And to make the slashdot crowd even happier, it doesn't run a Microsoft OS.