You're just going to have to find less shallow ways of judging people.
Why? Everybody does that! Here's how we should solve the education problem in this country : focus entirely on grammar, vocabulary and literature. Why bother trying to educate people when you can just make them sound educated?
Oh suuure all of this is just $500 millions away. Tssk, too bad the investment-savvy types in the energy industry wouldn't think of spending so little money into such important R&D to reap such important fruits.
What I was actually trying to express was such a feeling of thankfulness over the failure of EA at ruining Take-Two that all known deities should be thanked on the very off chance any of them exists.
Yeah, TFA says they won't sell it in the US because Americans don't like Diesel, because Diesel is more expensive and seen as nasty, or that the car would be more expensive than the direct concurrence because its engine is being made in Britain, but that's BS. I applaud you for recognising that without even reading TFA, you're right, it can't have to do with the fact that it would sell poorly, it must be for a more evil capitalistic conspiracyish reason.
Oh and yeah, not only they could make 45 mpg cars back in the 80s, but they could make a car that would run on water back in the 70s, in the very middle of the two oil crisis that put America on its knees. Damn these evil evil big evil corporations who wouldn't let that happen because evil evil Big Oil just wouldn't let you get rid of them like that.
Which is why I for one will be doing my laptopish gaming on a Pandora. Close enough in shape and function to be on topic, after all it's like a DS-sized EEE with good gaming controls and keyboard theoretically usable enough to use the device both as a laptop and a gaming console.
Why the hell would you expect it to result in i == 0?? i = i++ is decomposed in two parts, first i = i, and then i++. Therefore i would result in 1, what's hard to understand about that?
Argh, you beat us all to it. I'm not surprised BeOS would read our minds though, that would explain why the interface is so reactive, it knows you're gonna click that button before you even do it!
And there's something particularly annoying regarding grenades and airstrikes, it's that on most servers there's 2 or 3 times more people than the map was designed for, so these make your life expectancy so short your life is only worth as much as the grenade you'd have the time to throw away, and you won't always have enough time to do that anyways. The problem being that most of these upgrades you get are meant to make the average overall life expectancy much shorter, which is an awful thing to do, because when you die every 20 seconds a game quickly becomes rather dull, whereas if you can get to live 5 minutes it becomes exciting and immersing.
I think they should have gone with perks such as heroes have in Warcraft III, i.e. activate a perk that gives all friendly units within a certain radius more protection, stealth, etc... It would have interesting consequences, in that someone with such a perk, due to the interest there would be in following him around, could become de facto a leader, and use strategy to coordinate an action. See, that's what the CoD4 game designers should have thought about, it only took me little thinking to come up with that. Hence the title of my original post.
I haven't watched Moore's movie, but allow me to say that the rest of the bin Laden family has very very little in common with Osama. They practically disowned him, didn't they?
America, watch and learn. That's how ludicrous we find theories that you find worthy of debate, in our decently educated countries. The content of the debate isn't as relevant about your poor education system as is the fact that the debate itself could even survive and thrive rather than get instantly shot down and laughed off.
i disagree. i think there are a lot more competent programmers out there than there are visionary individuals.
The big problem is, nobody will understand your vision until you're done making it happen. I once had a great idea, everybody who heard of it would dismiss it, then I made it happen and got nothing but praise. A famous example is Steve Jobs and his personal computers. People thought no one would want a personal computer, he made it happen, then everybody wanted one of his computers, and people praised him as a visionary.
Nobody will recognize a visionary before they made their vision happen. It takes a visionary to recognise a visionary just from his ideas. On the other hand they may be both fools, you don't know if you're a visionary or a fool any earlier than anyone else.
"Once I have a specific idea, what are next steps?"
Get coding. Well, learn what you need to know to achieve what you want to do, write on a piece of paper how your program is going to work, then get coding. You've got to get your hands dirty. You won't find anyone to do that for you, however you'll find lots of people to answer your questions.
That's what I hate about CoD4. When you start, not only it's hard to fight more experienced player, but on top of that they have better weapons, perks and all that. So what happens is that you're really widening the gap between experienced players, which means the "noobs" get "pwned" a lot more than they naturally should. I think that sort of system is pretty weak, and it calls for a rethinking of it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about removing that sort of promotion, or even reversing it. No, rather, I think it has to be approached differently. I won't solve the problem in 5 minutes of thinking time, but an idea could be instead of giving you an edge that makes you an even more deadly killing machine than you already were, you could gain access to new skills, no responsibilities, new capabilities that wouldn't make you more deadly a soldier but nevertheless achieve new things by gaining strategical advantages, i.e. you could gain some sort of intelligence and leadership others don't get so you could turn into a sort of leader. If you look at it, in CoD4 as you climb the rank ladder all you get is better guns and such. They could at least get some inspiration from reality, when you become a colonel in the Marines they don't reward you with an AK-47 and better ammo.
First idea, firing the guys at the top when things don't work correctly, good. The rest, bullcrap, that's an awful way to test for managerial competence. Besides I'm a coder and I couldn't pass that test.
The only thing I mind them finding is them finding out that I'm much more interested in software engineering when I'm applying for junior sysadmin jobs. Them knowing that is a sure way for me to never get called for an interview.
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A brown dwarf. Why do you say it like it should be obvious?
That's very nice of Pandora to cease its activities for the arrival of the Pandora UMPC/console. Helps clear the confusion out.
Hopefully OSSD will soon find a cure for braindead first posts . . . .
1. Ask OSSD for a research grant
2. Suggest hiding new stories fron non-logged in users for 10 minutes
3. ???
4. Profit!
You're just going to have to find less shallow ways of judging people.
Why? Everybody does that! Here's how we should solve the education problem in this country : focus entirely on grammar, vocabulary and literature. Why bother trying to educate people when you can just make them sound educated?
Oh suuure all of this is just $500 millions away. Tssk, too bad the investment-savvy types in the energy industry wouldn't think of spending so little money into such important R&D to reap such important fruits.
What I was actually trying to express was such a feeling of thankfulness over the failure of EA at ruining Take-Two that all known deities should be thanked on the very off chance any of them exists.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster be praised! Hallelujah and Allahu Akbar!
Yeah, TFA says they won't sell it in the US because Americans don't like Diesel, because Diesel is more expensive and seen as nasty, or that the car would be more expensive than the direct concurrence because its engine is being made in Britain, but that's BS. I applaud you for recognising that without even reading TFA, you're right, it can't have to do with the fact that it would sell poorly, it must be for a more evil capitalistic conspiracyish reason.
Oh and yeah, not only they could make 45 mpg cars back in the 80s, but they could make a car that would run on water back in the 70s, in the very middle of the two oil crisis that put America on its knees. Damn these evil evil big evil corporations who wouldn't let that happen because evil evil Big Oil just wouldn't let you get rid of them like that.
Which is why I for one will be doing my laptopish gaming on a Pandora. Close enough in shape and function to be on topic, after all it's like a DS-sized EEE with good gaming controls and keyboard theoretically usable enough to use the device both as a laptop and a gaming console.
Why the hell would you expect it to result in i == 0?? i = i++ is decomposed in two parts, first i = i, and then i++. Therefore i would result in 1, what's hard to understand about that?
Argh, you beat us all to it. I'm not surprised BeOS would read our minds though, that would explain why the interface is so reactive, it knows you're gonna click that button before you even do it!
And there's something particularly annoying regarding grenades and airstrikes, it's that on most servers there's 2 or 3 times more people than the map was designed for, so these make your life expectancy so short your life is only worth as much as the grenade you'd have the time to throw away, and you won't always have enough time to do that anyways. The problem being that most of these upgrades you get are meant to make the average overall life expectancy much shorter, which is an awful thing to do, because when you die every 20 seconds a game quickly becomes rather dull, whereas if you can get to live 5 minutes it becomes exciting and immersing.
I think they should have gone with perks such as heroes have in Warcraft III, i.e. activate a perk that gives all friendly units within a certain radius more protection, stealth, etc... It would have interesting consequences, in that someone with such a perk, due to the interest there would be in following him around, could become de facto a leader, and use strategy to coordinate an action. See, that's what the CoD4 game designers should have thought about, it only took me little thinking to come up with that. Hence the title of my original post.
Huh, scrap step 4, why should the result of i = i be saved after the incrementation of i?
I haven't watched Moore's movie, but allow me to say that the rest of the bin Laden family has very very little in common with Osama. They practically disowned him, didn't they?
America, watch and learn. That's how ludicrous we find theories that you find worthy of debate, in our decently educated countries. The content of the debate isn't as relevant about your poor education system as is the fact that the debate itself could even survive and thrive rather than get instantly shot down and laughed off.
Crap
You realise of course that writing email addresses like this is the best way to ease a spammers job? http://www.google.com/search?q="at+yahoo+dot+com"
i disagree. i think there are a lot more competent programmers out there than there are visionary individuals.
The big problem is, nobody will understand your vision until you're done making it happen. I once had a great idea, everybody who heard of it would dismiss it, then I made it happen and got nothing but praise. A famous example is Steve Jobs and his personal computers. People thought no one would want a personal computer, he made it happen, then everybody wanted one of his computers, and people praised him as a visionary.
Nobody will recognize a visionary before they made their vision happen. It takes a visionary to recognise a visionary just from his ideas. On the other hand they may be both fools, you don't know if you're a visionary or a fool any earlier than anyone else.
"Once I have a specific idea, what are next steps?"
Get coding. Well, learn what you need to know to achieve what you want to do, write on a piece of paper how your program is going to work, then get coding. You've got to get your hands dirty. You won't find anyone to do that for you, however you'll find lots of people to answer your questions.
That's what I hate about CoD4. When you start, not only it's hard to fight more experienced player, but on top of that they have better weapons, perks and all that. So what happens is that you're really widening the gap between experienced players, which means the "noobs" get "pwned" a lot more than they naturally should. I think that sort of system is pretty weak, and it calls for a rethinking of it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about removing that sort of promotion, or even reversing it. No, rather, I think it has to be approached differently. I won't solve the problem in 5 minutes of thinking time, but an idea could be instead of giving you an edge that makes you an even more deadly killing machine than you already were, you could gain access to new skills, no responsibilities, new capabilities that wouldn't make you more deadly a soldier but nevertheless achieve new things by gaining strategical advantages, i.e. you could gain some sort of intelligence and leadership others don't get so you could turn into a sort of leader. If you look at it, in CoD4 as you climb the rank ladder all you get is better guns and such. They could at least get some inspiration from reality, when you become a colonel in the Marines they don't reward you with an AK-47 and better ammo.
As an IT manager who can write hello world in half a dozen languages
Oh yeah? Big whoop, I can write hello world in over 200 languages!
First idea, firing the guys at the top when things don't work correctly, good. The rest, bullcrap, that's an awful way to test for managerial competence. Besides I'm a coder and I couldn't pass that test.
In other news, the PS3 is the new Mac, getting game ports months/years after other platforms.
The only thing I mind them finding is them finding out that I'm much more interested in software engineering when I'm applying for junior sysadmin jobs. Them knowing that is a sure way for me to never get called for an interview.
It doesn't count if it happens in heaven, so they stay virgins anyway. What happens in heaven stays in heaven.