Left arrow goes back, right arrow goes forward. Shift reduces the increment/decrement of the arrow. Ctrl increases it. Spacebar pauses and resumes. Next time, try it out before slamming it.
We aren't that significant or threatening to any alien society sophisticated and advanced enough to decipher our signal. Why fear a planet whose lifeforms haven't even traveled farther than their own moon?
It would be ironic and amusing if it turned out that, after all, artificial intelligence wasn't nearly as difficult a problem to solve as folks like Scarbrac thought and that the only reason that it took us so long to solve was because we desperately wanted to hold onto the notion that intelligence was a hard thing to recreate.
Which they will barely make up when it goes to DVD. Strong DVD sales and weak TV ratings and movie theater box office sales should tell FOX/Universal that Firefly/Serenity is a "straight to video" media property that should have never aired on television or made it into the movie theaters in the first place.
Perhaps I am "imaginaionally inept," but I don't imagine landscapes when I play text-only games. I process the information in the text and enter commands to continue the game -- the text-only equivalent of skipping the quest text when playing a 3D online game.
...should write a postmodern article about English professors that we've never heard of getting paid to write pseudointellectual articles about whose actual purpose is to advertise the DVD releases of popular but overrated motion pictures.
A-- W--, the greatest postmodern shill ever!
In addition to accessing data stored in relational databases, these changes in C# 3.0 and the LINQ project are also useful for extracting and manipulating data stored in XML.
However, with anonymous types, you can have code that looks like this:
var o = new { Product='Beverage', Price='0.60' };
Without var, what type would you declare this variable? You could declare it as object, but to access the object's Product and Price properties, you would still need to cast the variable to some type, and what type would that be?
Anonymous types and implicitly typed local variables are C# language infrastructure to support LINQ, new language constructs to support type-safe access to relational and XML data stores in C# itself, rather than requiring code using separate class libraries like System.Data and System.Xml to access that data.
Companies interested in upgrading their Windows systems are going to upgrade to Windows Vista. Companies not interested in upgrading their Windows system are not going to upgrade period. Novell Linux is irrelevant to the equation.
Using lack of features in a Windows Vista Beta 1 as a selling point for Linux is setting it up for a fall when Beta 2 comes out with the features. Linux advocates would be better off selling Linux on its own merits, not on the foibles and deficiencies of Windows.
Take the high road, not the low road.
Is it really better without voice?
Many people in on-line games speak in 'net speak and do not roleplay. You know the type, "WTF? OMG! ROFLMAO! IRL". It's to the point now where people start to make words up, thinking that everyone will understand their cryptic acronym speak.
Even if they don't do that, they mangle the English language with poor spelling, punctuation, and grammar. That can't always be helped in an on-line environment since everybody's education level and typing skills differ.
Voice is good for on-line games, because typing generally interferes with gameplay. Voice is an "out of band" channel that lets you communicate with your fellow players without wasting valuable input time that could be spent issuing gameplay commands by keyboard or manipulating the mouse.
If spaceflight is inherently dangerous and can never be made safe enough, maybe we should invest more money, time, and energy into unmanned spaceflight.
Not that Microsoft is consistent with their own guidelines, but they changed their user interface guidelines for Windows Vista.
The big questions are (a) is IE7 consistent with the rest of Windows Vista and, more importantly, (b) are the Windows Vista user interface guidelines any good? I'm betting (a) yes and (b) no.
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Was this joke in poor taste? ;)
Left arrow goes back, right arrow goes forward. Shift reduces the increment/decrement of the arrow. Ctrl increases it. Spacebar pauses and resumes. Next time, try it out before slamming it.
> Do we pay for support? Hell no. We have a knowledgable and competent staff. Unless your staff works for free, you are paying for support.
We aren't that significant or threatening to any alien society sophisticated and advanced enough to decipher our signal. Why fear a planet whose lifeforms haven't even traveled farther than their own moon?
It would be ironic and amusing if it turned out that, after all, artificial intelligence wasn't nearly as difficult a problem to solve as folks like Scarbrac thought and that the only reason that it took us so long to solve was because we desperately wanted to hold onto the notion that intelligence was a hard thing to recreate.
They didn't kill their low-margin PC business; they sold it. Check out Lenovo.
Which they will barely make up when it goes to DVD. Strong DVD sales and weak TV ratings and movie theater box office sales should tell FOX/Universal that Firefly/Serenity is a "straight to video" media property that should have never aired on television or made it into the movie theaters in the first place.
Bad code is bad code, whether it is proprietary or open source.
Perhaps I am "imaginaionally inept," but I don't imagine landscapes when I play text-only games. I process the information in the text and enter commands to continue the game -- the text-only equivalent of skipping the quest text when playing a 3D online game.
...should write a postmodern article about English professors that we've never heard of getting paid to write pseudointellectual articles about whose actual purpose is to advertise the DVD releases of popular but overrated motion pictures. A-- W--, the greatest postmodern shill ever!
An anonymous source known only as "C. Little" announced that the "sky was falling." More news later as details come in.
In addition to accessing data stored in relational databases, these changes in C# 3.0 and the LINQ project are also useful for extracting and manipulating data stored in XML.
Why implicitly typed variables? Anonymous types.
Today, you have C# code that looks like this:
Which you could replace with var:However, with anonymous types, you can have code that looks like this:
Without var, what type would you declare this variable? You could declare it as object, but to access the object's Product and Price properties, you would still need to cast the variable to some type, and what type would that be?
Anonymous types and implicitly typed local variables are C# language infrastructure to support LINQ, new language constructs to support type-safe access to relational and XML data stores in C# itself, rather than requiring code using separate class libraries like System.Data and System.Xml to access that data.
Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq /default.aspx for more details on the LINQ project.
Companies interested in upgrading their Windows systems are going to upgrade to Windows Vista. Companies not interested in upgrading their Windows system are not going to upgrade period. Novell Linux is irrelevant to the equation.
that the article's author just got dumped by his "humanity graduate student" significant other.
If you don't like DRM, don't buy products protected by DRM.
Interesting story but what does it have to do with iTunes?
Using lack of features in a Windows Vista Beta 1 as a selling point for Linux is setting it up for a fall when Beta 2 comes out with the features. Linux advocates would be better off selling Linux on its own merits, not on the foibles and deficiencies of Windows. Take the high road, not the low road.
Is it really better without voice? Many people in on-line games speak in 'net speak and do not roleplay. You know the type, "WTF? OMG! ROFLMAO! IRL". It's to the point now where people start to make words up, thinking that everyone will understand their cryptic acronym speak. Even if they don't do that, they mangle the English language with poor spelling, punctuation, and grammar. That can't always be helped in an on-line environment since everybody's education level and typing skills differ. Voice is good for on-line games, because typing generally interferes with gameplay. Voice is an "out of band" channel that lets you communicate with your fellow players without wasting valuable input time that could be spent issuing gameplay commands by keyboard or manipulating the mouse.
Does the library really need to be a social gathering place? Isn't the rest of the campus big enough to serve that purpose?
If spaceflight is inherently dangerous and can never be made safe enough, maybe we should invest more money, time, and energy into unmanned spaceflight.
I like negative quantum information the first time I saw it when it was called "error."
/. is not a responsible news organization. It should not be considered as such. It is more like the National Enquirer, only for Linux-flavored geeks.
Not that Microsoft is consistent with their own guidelines, but they changed their user interface guidelines for Windows Vista. The big questions are (a) is IE7 consistent with the rest of Windows Vista and, more importantly, (b) are the Windows Vista user interface guidelines any good? I'm betting (a) yes and (b) no.
This article isn't about robots; it's about mannequins.