It might not teach you specifically about C++, but it could likely teach most people (including me) a good deal about developing something large scale, and with comments that explain things in a way which help other developers understand what should (and what DOES) happen.
(For those who don't know, and might be interested: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php is the Girl Genius webcomic. It's steampunk, with a good storyline, etc etc. The art is phenomenal, and the Foglios have online versions of several others of their works too (Mythadventures and Buck Godot, both of which were entertaining as well). The art in Girl Genius is so good that I would totally love to have the printed versions... though I can't justify the cost of them yet.
I believe part of the claim in this case is that the TSA agent gave a pat-down that was more "enhanced" (invasive) than it should have been. That could conceivably be a crime.
Why do we spend 10 billion a year to prevent the potential loss of one or two $100 million airplanes?
The populace as a herd is Fearful, and no politician wants to be associated with an idea that would reduce our (apparent) safety. So, no policy gets suggested to change the behavior.
I'll be surprised if you don't get some informative or insightful moderation, in addition to the funny. It's disturbing that that could be perceived as anything but an attempt at humor, but there ya go.
There's no law about cleaning firearms in front of someone. It isn't even an implied threat unless you make it one.;-) (OK, it probably COULD be argued as an implied threat, but context probably matters -- "I was just back from shooting" is a pretty solid defense to why you were cleaning the gun.) Not to mention that I have a hard time imagining a jury of just about anyone convicting someone for telling your daughter's boyfriend, directly or indirectly, "If you rape my daughter I will visit physical trauma upon you". I don't think I would ever make an overt threat like that, though.
Now, if the rape happened, and said trauma were visited, then I'm pretty sure that a conversation like that would be some pretty damning evidence. I don't condone such actions, clearly, though most states protect your right to intervene with force to stop an assault in progress.
A "city" is a legal description of a type of civil entity. Some cities are dense urban areas (Detroit, Los Angeles). Other cities might be sparse or relatively un-populated. Taft, CA, for example ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft,_California ) has 9 thousand people in 15 square miles. California City has 14 thousand people in 200 square miles.
So, this project is more dense than some real cities, and less dense than most "real" cities.
If there were a phone build specifically for it, I imagine you could easily use the Work SIM for one profile, and your Personal Plan SIM for the other -- so the work plan never gets billed for your calls to who-knows-where, and therefore shouldn't care what you do with it.
Of course you're capable of moving on. It just takes time and work.
There are books on Android programming - several of them (I like "Hello Android") have great code examples. The Android SDK (and emulator) is free, and uses the (also free) Eclipse IDE. The cook isn't free, but the SDK (and code samples + tutorials from Google) and IDE all cost nothing but your time to download them. Pick something and DO it. You can! You will mainly get better at coding from writing code, so make up a toy application that you are actually interesting in building, and get cracking.
If you're interested in learning a new area of programming, whether it be mobile app development, Mac software, web apps, or embedded programming, there are almost certainly thriving hobbyist communities. Game development is, I expect, a harder domain to crack, given how (relatively) few people use open source versions of stuff. In contrast, the open source community for many other domains are very strong and active -- perhaps in forums, perhaps in IRC, perhaps with wikis full of tutorials.
Reading other code, e.g. driver code, or web app sample code, or Quake 3 engine source code, etc, will ALSO be tremendously informative, but should supplement actual coding on your part. Sometimes a book is best for explaining fundamentals that you don't know you're missing, but there are a lot of freely available books out there. MIT has some really cool computer science textbooks online. Granted, many of them deal a lot with Scheme, which you might be less interested in learning (despite how much I or others might feel that Lisp is awesome, I know it's not something everyone loves).
Keep in mind that the cost of developing a game is not merely the cost of your materials, but the value of the time you spent doing it. You can choose to value that at zero, at a "loss" in hopes of sales, or to value it differently. Pricing is mostly up to you -- but in most phone app stores, the price is "Free or less than a dollar", or no one will buy it, which means that you've already agreed to sell for what the market supports.;)
You don't need to sign your name exactly as it was in the past - no need to "remember how it goes". Just write your name in cursive in a way that feels comfortable to you. It might be a scrawl, it might be very legible. Just sit down and write your name twenty times -- right now -- and you'll see that they don't look the same. You can vary the angle, the spacing, the relative height of letters, and there will still be enough similarities that you (or an expert) can likely say "Yep, that's [delinear]'s signature".
Not all of us have the resources to go to the "right" ones. I'm very happy with my CS program at UC Irvine, but I know there are other programs that are better, and some that are worse.
Their recent redesign of the pizza (last year? the one before?) has actually resulted in a pretty tasty pizza, in comparison to the others in our area (Papa John's, Pizza Hut). Pizza Hut just opened near enough to us to warrant ordering from them instead of Domino's, and I found I liked Domino's better.
It's not the world's greatest pizza, but certainly good enough that we've picked it over another major brand.
Probably because building nuclear power plant costs a LOT of money, and has the potential to damage massive portions of their surrounding areas. Moreover, the profit is probably in the relatively distant future -- an investment the government can often afford to make, but most private investors are unlikely to like.
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It might not teach you specifically about C++, but it could likely teach most people (including me) a good deal about developing something large scale, and with comments that explain things in a way which help other developers understand what should (and what DOES) happen.
Impossible. :)
(For those who don't know, and might be interested: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php is the Girl Genius webcomic. It's steampunk, with a good storyline, etc etc. The art is phenomenal, and the Foglios have online versions of several others of their works too (Mythadventures and Buck Godot, both of which were entertaining as well). The art in Girl Genius is so good that I would totally love to have the printed versions ... though I can't justify the cost of them yet.
Let's just say that the comic is Awesome.
Sounds like a fairly prophetic thing to put on a T-shirt.
I believe part of the claim in this case is that the TSA agent gave a pat-down that was more "enhanced" (invasive) than it should have been. That could conceivably be a crime.
Why do we spend 10 billion a year to prevent the potential loss of one or two $100 million airplanes?
The populace as a herd is Fearful, and no politician wants to be associated with an idea that would reduce our (apparent) safety. So, no policy gets suggested to change the behavior.
Dude, it's just a burger. ;)
(I agree, the coupon could have been worded in a less-ambiguous manner, or at least a "*Does not apply to Super Big Mac" in fine print.)
I'll be surprised if you don't get some informative or insightful moderation, in addition to the funny. It's disturbing that that could be perceived as anything but an attempt at humor, but there ya go.
There's no law about cleaning firearms in front of someone. It isn't even an implied threat unless you make it one. ;-) (OK, it probably COULD be argued as an implied threat, but context probably matters -- "I was just back from shooting" is a pretty solid defense to why you were cleaning the gun.) Not to mention that I have a hard time imagining a jury of just about anyone convicting someone for telling your daughter's boyfriend, directly or indirectly, "If you rape my daughter I will visit physical trauma upon you". I don't think I would ever make an overt threat like that, though.
Now, if the rape happened, and said trauma were visited, then I'm pretty sure that a conversation like that would be some pretty damning evidence. I don't condone such actions, clearly, though most states protect your right to intervene with force to stop an assault in progress.
Many mod points for someone who links the all-on-one-page versions of these. The "print" link didn't seem to work for me.
Coral Cached:
http://www.geeked.info.nyud.net/burning-man-2011-geoeye-satellite-image
(I'm glad someone else did it before it was slashdotted.)
A "city" is a legal description of a type of civil entity. Some cities are dense urban areas (Detroit, Los Angeles). Other cities might be sparse or relatively un-populated. Taft, CA, for example ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft,_California ) has 9 thousand people in 15 square miles. California City has 14 thousand people in 200 square miles.
So, this project is more dense than some real cities, and less dense than most "real" cities.
If there were a phone build specifically for it, I imagine you could easily use the Work SIM for one profile, and your Personal Plan SIM for the other -- so the work plan never gets billed for your calls to who-knows-where, and therefore shouldn't care what you do with it.
Of course you're capable of moving on. It just takes time and work.
There are books on Android programming - several of them (I like "Hello Android") have great code examples. The Android SDK (and emulator) is free, and uses the (also free) Eclipse IDE. The cook isn't free, but the SDK (and code samples + tutorials from Google) and IDE all cost nothing but your time to download them. Pick something and DO it. You can! You will mainly get better at coding from writing code, so make up a toy application that you are actually interesting in building, and get cracking.
If you're interested in learning a new area of programming, whether it be mobile app development, Mac software, web apps, or embedded programming, there are almost certainly thriving hobbyist communities. Game development is, I expect, a harder domain to crack, given how (relatively) few people use open source versions of stuff. In contrast, the open source community for many other domains are very strong and active -- perhaps in forums, perhaps in IRC, perhaps with wikis full of tutorials.
Reading other code, e.g. driver code, or web app sample code, or Quake 3 engine source code, etc, will ALSO be tremendously informative, but should supplement actual coding on your part. Sometimes a book is best for explaining fundamentals that you don't know you're missing, but there are a lot of freely available books out there. MIT has some really cool computer science textbooks online. Granted, many of them deal a lot with Scheme, which you might be less interested in learning (despite how much I or others might feel that Lisp is awesome, I know it's not something everyone loves).
Keep in mind that the cost of developing a game is not merely the cost of your materials, but the value of the time you spent doing it. You can choose to value that at zero, at a "loss" in hopes of sales, or to value it differently. Pricing is mostly up to you -- but in most phone app stores, the price is "Free or less than a dollar", or no one will buy it, which means that you've already agreed to sell for what the market supports. ;)
If you are the one pasting the image in, is that really forging?
You don't need to sign your name exactly as it was in the past - no need to "remember how it goes". Just write your name in cursive in a way that feels comfortable to you. It might be a scrawl, it might be very legible. Just sit down and write your name twenty times -- right now -- and you'll see that they don't look the same. You can vary the angle, the spacing, the relative height of letters, and there will still be enough similarities that you (or an expert) can likely say "Yep, that's [delinear]'s signature".
Not all of us have the resources to go to the "right" ones. I'm very happy with my CS program at UC Irvine, but I know there are other programs that are better, and some that are worse.
Or, the Deliverator needs an upgrade. :)
Their recent redesign of the pizza (last year? the one before?) has actually resulted in a pretty tasty pizza, in comparison to the others in our area (Papa John's, Pizza Hut). Pizza Hut just opened near enough to us to warrant ordering from them instead of Domino's, and I found I liked Domino's better.
It's not the world's greatest pizza, but certainly good enough that we've picked it over another major brand.
On the other hand, you can do it by the simple act of being born, too.
Yep - I found it in some other way, not sure what. :) Just looking at the "on air" section on the first section of the site.
"what they don't know won't hurt us" I think was the intended correction. ;)
According to the Schiff site ( http://www.schiffradio.com/pg/jsp/charts/audioMaster.jsp?dispid=301&pid=53373 ), one must be a premium member to download or listen to the excerpt.
Sad, as I was interested in listening to it.
Probably because building nuclear power plant costs a LOT of money, and has the potential to damage massive portions of their surrounding areas. Moreover, the profit is probably in the relatively distant future -- an investment the government can often afford to make, but most private investors are unlikely to like.
Science is about making horrible dreams a reality.
Somewhere, someone just found a new signature. ;)
What makes Lua fun to work with? (Genuine curiosity, not snarkiness.)