Personally I can't stand console gaming. First of all my hands can't take the strain of using the game controllers (and force feedback has no appeal to me). Second of all the games seem more geared to fast-twitch gaming and memorizing arcane sequences of triangle left right up square circle down (no karma points for pointing out what this move does, which i just made up), which doesn't interest me. Finally console gaming lacks a device equivalent to the mouse, for superior aiming and looking around.
I'll wait for games to come on PC, like GTA 3 which I just bought. Somehow I doubt I'm alone. I expect many others are in the same boat. In any case, I think this article overstates the case.
Here's all you need to know. It's terrible. If you really liked the first one, you may be mildly amused. If you didn't really like the first one you are wasting your time and money.
I went to see this opening night and was extremely impressed. Definitely the best 2002 movie I've seen. Great effects, visuals, plot, acting, and endless fodder for discussion. Only minor negative was the Spielbergian melodrama, which occurs in a few scenes and does stick out a bit. Fortunately these are few and far between and are usually pretty short.
I think the number one impressive thing had to be how a pretty complex plot got set up and and they managed to resolve it without "cheating".
There's a few scenes that'll make you jump, and a few freaky ideas. Agatha certainly gives you the creeps a few times... "Murrdderrr!!!":)
I bought the "18" CD and let me tell you it is not that good. Tired and not memorable. Make some more good music Moby and I'm sure your sales will increase.
The most important thing in my book, is for a manager to shield us from the bureaucracy and let us stick to what we do best, which is design and code systems.
Another nice thing would be if they knew what they don't know. In other words, it's very frustrating when they try to get involved in technical decisions with ramifications they don't understand.
Finally (and this is related to the previous point) it really annoys me when managers start spouting jargon that they've heard at a trade show or in a Microsoft commercial. We actually had this one guy who wanted a fairly large, customized, dynamic web site, and who claimed that it should take us about half a day to do, because Microsoft provides that sort of thing "out of the box". Yah, whatever.
What about one book that is a compilation of many of these pocket books that you describe. I.e. 20 pages on perl, java, xml, c, sql, php, etc., etc. Kind of a general reference to the basics of common languages. Kind of a guide to modern programming or something. Include all the basic syntax and a few examples for each language, plus some web pointers to more info, and book references.
Also... i would love to see a good book on Microsoft Index Server. There is just about nothing on the topic, which is really frustrating. Now, I know that not many people would buy it, so it's just a pipe dream, but still, it would definitely fill a need.
Saw it opening night. I ended up giving it an 8/10 on IMDB.
My feeling about this movie is that it's extraordinarily well-filmed, and a great look at a modern military situation. I have two major complaints about the movie: 1) that they didn't resolve the Durant situation (other than with a line of text at the end of the film) and 2) that I didn't care about any of the characters at all. I thought Saving Private Ryan was a better movie, in that it had the same intensity of action, but also made you empathize with the characters a whole lot more. Still, I'd recommend this to others. Get ready to see a documentary and you'll probably enjoy yourself.
One thing that hit me personally was the birthdate of the guy registering with Ewan MacGregor's character, 2-27-75, which is my birthdate. Then I realized that at the time I was sitting around in high school complaining about my homework and these guys are in Africa getting shot at and shooting "skinnies". Pretty scary.
One of my personal rules for judging books (admittedly, by the cover) is to avoid books of the "Learn X in 21 days" or "Master Y in 24 hours" variety. I find they break up the content illogically and promote a false concept of what it is to really understand a subject.
I live in Ottawa Canada and we just had our municipal elections (yes, 2 weeks before the big (who am i kidding) federal election). Anyways, the ballot was super-clear -- 3 columns on a regular letter-sized sheet of paper. you filled in your choice by coloring in a small oval with a marker (like those grade school tests). Then you put your ballot into a folder (but not folded). Then the deputy returning officer puts it next to this laser-printer like device and it takes about 1 second to suck the ballot in (think change machines but bigger) & scan your votes (no feedback of any kind, i suppose there may be some rejected ones that have to be hand-checked at the end). Then the dial up some central computer by modem & the complete results were up around 30 minutes after the polls closed. very efficient and quick, IMHO. don't know what the cost of the machines is but it would have been worth it in florida right around now!
Not any more. I believe (but i'm not 100% sure...) that when canada 'repatriated' the constitution in 81 or 82 that wrote the queen out of the books for good. i don't think she ever nixed anything before that though.
The author seems to vastly overestimate how easy colonization of other planets would be. It's obviously very hard. If we all had to move to Mars tomorrow, well... it just wouldn't work out.
He says that they would have "evolutionary advantages" on their planet. sure... but not on arbitrary other planets. the universe is vast... i don't see aliens climbing aboard large spaceships for multi-generational voyages to set up shop on some unknown planet.
It may be a tired argument but the jewelry analogy is flawed. In your situation, there's only ONE diamond. There can be UNLIMITED copies of pirate (or even not-pirated) digital music. If there was a magic diamond-copying device then diamonds would pretty much lose their value. Which is what is happening to music, for good or for bad.
I live in Ottawa Canada, around 10 years ago the National Gallery bought a piece of abstract art called the "Voice of Fire" for around 1.5 million dollars, IIRC. This was a "painting" that consisted of three vertical stripes. blue red and purple. that's it. This is the kind of crap that it's completely irresponsible to spend public money on. I'm sure 4 out of the 7 (just a guess) members on the art council felt it was a good idea -- but that's not good enough for me.
Art is fine. Weird art is fine. Art with elephant doo doo is fine. But not at my expense. Let some millionaire with more money than sense buy it. Art in particular is so subjective that debates on its worth are meaningless. I could say i don't like the Mona Lisa. No one could disagree. Thus my conclusion is art museums should not be funded by the government (i don't see where else to draw the line, logically). Cure some diseases, build some highways, pay off the debt, give income tax breaks... something... anything.
Not to reset the whole BO issue, but I don't think it proves much about NT's lack of security. It's just another (admittedly powerful) arbitrary executable. If someone tricks a linux admin into running a binary of their choice it's quite obviously game over there too. My one most-intense hatred of NT is that there's no way to transparently connect to other machines. 3rd party stuff like pcanywhere is horrible. But i do really like that Verdana font...
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Personally I can't stand console gaming. First of all my hands can't take the strain of using the game controllers (and force feedback has no appeal to me). Second of all the games seem more geared to fast-twitch gaming and memorizing arcane sequences of triangle left right up square circle down (no karma points for pointing out what this move does, which i just made up), which doesn't interest me. Finally console gaming lacks a device equivalent to the mouse, for superior aiming and looking around.
I'll wait for games to come on PC, like GTA 3 which I just bought. Somehow I doubt I'm alone. I expect many others are in the same boat. In any case, I think this article overstates the case.
ah, yes, the old "ignorance of the law" defence.
Here's all you need to know. It's terrible. If you really liked the first one, you may be mildly amused. If you didn't really like the first one you are wasting your time and money.
I went to see this opening night and was extremely impressed. Definitely the best 2002 movie I've seen. Great effects, visuals, plot, acting, and endless fodder for discussion. Only minor negative was the Spielbergian melodrama, which occurs in a few scenes and does stick out a bit. Fortunately these are few and far between and are usually pretty short.
I think the number one impressive thing had to be how a pretty complex plot got set up and and they managed to resolve it without "cheating".
There's a few scenes that'll make you jump, and a few freaky ideas. Agatha certainly gives you the creeps a few times... "Murrdderrr!!!" :)
I bought the "18" CD and let me tell you it is not that good. Tired and not memorable. Make some more good music Moby and I'm sure your sales will increase.
The most important thing in my book, is for a manager to shield us from the bureaucracy and let us stick to what we do best, which is design and code systems.
Another nice thing would be if they knew what they don't know. In other words, it's very frustrating when they try to get involved in technical decisions with ramifications they don't understand.
Finally (and this is related to the previous point) it really annoys me when managers start spouting jargon that they've heard at a trade show or in a Microsoft commercial. We actually had this one guy who wanted a fairly large, customized, dynamic web site, and who claimed that it should take us about half a day to do, because Microsoft provides that sort of thing "out of the box". Yah, whatever.
This is the most subjective drivel I've read (skip-read, actually) in ages.
Also... i would love to see a good book on Microsoft Index Server. There is just about nothing on the topic, which is really frustrating. Now, I know that not many people would buy it, so it's just a pipe dream, but still, it would definitely fill a need.
Saw it opening night. I ended up giving it an 8/10 on IMDB.
My feeling about this movie is that it's extraordinarily well-filmed, and a great look at a modern military situation. I have two major complaints about the movie: 1) that they didn't resolve the Durant situation (other than with a line of text at the end of the film) and 2) that I didn't care about any of the characters at all. I thought Saving Private Ryan was a better movie, in that it had the same intensity of action, but also made you empathize with the characters a whole lot more. Still, I'd recommend this to others. Get ready to see a documentary and you'll probably enjoy yourself.
One thing that hit me personally was the birthdate of the guy registering with Ewan MacGregor's character, 2-27-75, which is my birthdate. Then I realized that at the time I was sitting around in high school complaining about my homework and these guys are in Africa getting shot at and shooting "skinnies". Pretty scary.
One of my personal rules for judging books (admittedly, by the cover) is to avoid books of the "Learn X in 21 days" or "Master Y in 24 hours" variety. I find they break up the content illogically and promote a false concept of what it is to really understand a subject.
It's called "cognitive dissonance".
And i thought "bend over backward" was going to be a goatse.cx link...
It's not like you can't load the image directly... http://enet2.enetis.net/~wandk/pacproj/assembly.jp g
I live in Ottawa Canada and we just had our municipal elections (yes, 2 weeks before the big (who am i kidding) federal election). Anyways, the ballot was super-clear -- 3 columns on a regular letter-sized sheet of paper. you filled in your choice by coloring in a small oval with a marker (like those grade school tests). Then you put your ballot into a folder (but not folded). Then the deputy returning officer puts it next to this laser-printer like device and it takes about 1 second to suck the ballot in (think change machines but bigger) & scan your votes (no feedback of any kind, i suppose there may be some rejected ones that have to be hand-checked at the end). Then the dial up some central computer by modem & the complete results were up around 30 minutes after the polls closed. very efficient and quick, IMHO. don't know what the cost of the machines is but it would have been worth it in florida right around now!
Not any more. I believe (but i'm not 100% sure...) that when canada 'repatriated' the constitution in 81 or 82 that wrote the queen out of the books for good. i don't think she ever nixed anything before that though.
The author seems to vastly overestimate how easy colonization of other planets would be. It's obviously very hard. If we all had to move to Mars tomorrow, well... it just wouldn't work out.
He says that they would have "evolutionary advantages" on their planet. sure... but not on arbitrary other planets. the universe is vast... i don't see aliens climbing aboard large spaceships for multi-generational voyages to set up shop on some unknown planet.
It may be a tired argument but the jewelry analogy is flawed. In your situation, there's only ONE diamond. There can be UNLIMITED copies of pirate (or even not-pirated) digital music. If there was a magic diamond-copying device then diamonds would pretty much lose their value. Which is what is happening to music, for good or for bad.
or at least pretty damn close to it...
httpThere's my vote for a Top-10 hack of the century!
More than once I have seen this book shelved with the perl books at the bookstore...
I tried SETI but I just felt that it would never find anything. Right now I'm going with RC5 but I may well switch to OGR.
Specifically I think the criteria for a good project are:
That being said it's hard to find a good fit for these rules. OGR comes close but I think it lacks mass appeal.
I live in Ottawa Canada, around 10 years ago the National Gallery bought a piece of abstract art called the "Voice of Fire" for around 1.5 million dollars, IIRC. This was a "painting" that consisted of three vertical stripes. blue red and purple. that's it. This is the kind of crap that it's completely irresponsible to spend public money on. I'm sure 4 out of the 7 (just a guess) members on the art council felt it was a good idea -- but that's not good enough for me.
Art is fine. Weird art is fine. Art with elephant doo doo is fine. But not at my expense. Let some millionaire with more money than sense buy it. Art in particular is so subjective that debates on its worth are meaningless. I could say i don't like the Mona Lisa. No one could disagree. Thus my conclusion is art museums should not be funded by the government (i don't see where else to draw the line, logically). Cure some diseases, build some highways, pay off the debt, give income tax breaks... something... anything.
Not to reset the whole BO issue, but I don't think it proves much about NT's lack of security. It's just another (admittedly powerful) arbitrary executable. If someone tricks a linux admin into running a binary of their choice it's quite obviously game over there too. My one most-intense hatred of NT is that there's no way to transparently connect to other machines. 3rd party stuff like pcanywhere is horrible. But i do really like that Verdana font...