They made the right choice for Mill Ave in my opinion. Those spots were at a premium, but on the other end, traffic on Mill Ave is nonstop. The street is primarily known for its bars and it is the busiest at night when the bars are open. Changing the spaces to cab only not only helps reduce traffic on the street, but it encourages students to take a cab home instead of trying to drive home. A bouncer can throw someone in a cab instead of out on the street, which is fine by me. Also, cars parked on the street were damaged more than any car in a parking garage. People leaned all over and fell into cars drunk all the time. On the traffic end, now people do not cruise the street several times looking for space or worse yet, stopping in the middle of road as someone gets in, starts there car, and finally vacates the space.
As for your fear of something being stolen from your car in the garage or the Park It area, that is not my experience in the least. I have never heard of anyone every having anything done to there car while park around Mill Ave. There is a strong police presence on the weekend and security guards are in some of the garages so just find one that has one if you are worried about it. The cost to park has always been 0 for me. Park It charges, but they also validate, as does anywhere else. Your ASU decal usually takes care of any other issues anyways.
Or 1 song with 2 remixes and an instrumental? $7 is way to much. You can get a solid EP (4-7 tracks) for that price or just a little more. The EP also has new songs that would be otherwise unavailable on the bands LP(most of the time).
Allow me to preface this by saying that some people who are motivated can go to these schools, absorb the knowledge around, and end up doing very well. These people work hard and get the most out of the school they are paying for.
Now that that is out of the way, for everyone else, they will end up having their 'gaming college' amount to little more than time served at a school. I have attended these schools which turned into a game school while I was there (CIS/CSC for me). TFA points out some truths, but I only want to focus on something that afflicts many technology focused schools, but game design programs even more.
These kids are lazy. Your average game degree student has a basic knowledge of computing principles, may have tried coding/art, and is immersed in geek/nerd culture/lifestyle. They go to school only with an interest in games, thinking they want to do what they love. I will always support that, but you have to back up your passion for games with a passion to make games for a living and most completely lack the latter. Countless students attended class for a couple semesters and once the coding or advanced modeling classes came around, the classes were empty. These students elected to miss class to play games all the time. They have gaming machines on campus where you can play games on break. I would constantly find kids who should be in the class I was attending on these machines.
Anything of worth for these students meant little to them. They think they can go to school, learn how to draft a Game Design Doc and send that off to publishers and then wait for the call where someone offers them millions to create their game.
Color me a troll, but these students were lazy and had no ambition to actually do or learn anything. They were generally delusional about what working in the game industry entailed and the staff at the school did little to educate them.
So, this is saying if you join a community/website then you are probably inclined to be interested or involved in whatever the subject matter that site is. What a shocker, people belong and participate in things that interest them. This has been true forever, give me a break. I wonder if everyone involved in drafting and signing the Declaration of Independence were into politics in some form?
Another article aiming just to get hits while producing nothing that would be seen as being anything more than 'mildly entertaining'.
Blizzard has been hitting the nail on the head since Warcraft II. Every game breaks and old record set by itself for sales. Battle.net was a huge success and they have had nothing but success for over a decade.
Or Google can pay 4.6B and add the other two restrictions themselves? They should remove them as they said they would, otherwise they just tailors the spectrum so it could sell it to Google and I... I do not want to live a country that does that.
Here we have "Why should we release this chip now? The old chips are cheaper to produce and since AMD can't even compete with our current lineup we can keep selling them at the same price, ensuring more profit for us." Sounds exactly like what they should do. They are continuing to develop new products, insuring profits for their stockholders from some time to come. Them not selling us something because of market factors is just the name of the game. The fact that it(45nm) was made is the achievement, not necessarily when it gets to market. As long as the competition keeps Intel innovating, we all gain, even if new breakthroughs are held from the market for business reasons.
No sorry, that is not the bottleneck. A site will still render fine if a call to an offsite server is not responding or is slow. The local server does not need that information to load in order to complete its request... it simply makes the request and moves on to the next. The local site generates the element the ad is going to be displayed in, makes the request and continues on. How does it matter to the local server if the offsite call does not respond? Unless something locally is depending on whatever is received from the offsite call, it should not effect the rest of the page loading.
You are either making this up or visiting the worse sites around, both of which do not prove that the ad servers are the problem. If you were looking at a blank page waiting for Analytics, which you aren't, it is webmasters fault. Google code is to be placed at the END of the page... why do you think that is? So everything else can render before Google is called, this not having any effect on the speed the content of your page is loaded, but the overall load(See: Done) may be longer. Second, your computer does not call Google. Analytics, just like any other stat thing, takes your variables, stored in your browser, and sends the info to Google, you do not really send anything, Google collects the info from your browser and sends it. Other stat programs do the same exact thing, except it is server side so the data does not have to be sent offsite.
You have the problem with your computer and your settings if you are really having the problems you describe. I am visit a plethora of sites every single day and never have to do what you are claiming to be doing. you even imply it is a common thing, which makes me even more skeptical.
While the site may not fully load (See: Done) the sites contents loading should not dependent on the ad servers. Ad servers, as described in the summary, are not part of the site server, thus making it impossible for it to be the bottleneck of the site. Everything server side will load at its usual rate, and the calls to outside servers will be handled at the usual rate of the other server. One should not have an impact on the other unless something is designed that way, in which case it is the programmers fault more than anyones.
Sure I would rather have the quickest possible times to (Done), but if the only thing holding me up is an ad or Analytics, excuse me for not caring to much.
Well regardless of the outcome of the program, at least the admitted the issue as being true. People know more about software that are not directly affiliated with the USPTO. Knowing and admitting that this is true is a significant step in the process of fixing the system. Seeing that the door is open, regardless of how wide, is a good sign that things may be able to worked out with technology and all other patents alike.
Of course this is common. These people not using FF after downloading are the same people that have AOL icons on their desktop they never use. Have old trial version software all over their comp, pre-installed or not. As nerds and geeks, we usually uninstall stuff we do not need, but you are telling you that you have installed and used everything you have downloaded? I know I run a pretty tight ship when it comes to my machines, but I know I have downloaded things and not used them for whatever reason.
Back to the average Joe, they do this way more often then us. They get the link to download for whatever reason and download it with good intention, but not everyone installs it. Of those that do install, they try to use it, realize it is too different or whatever and go back to IE without bothering to uninstall... that is not important to them. To them, having 100 programs installed is the same as 1 - they know no better.
If you realize that you, being a slashdot reading computer user, are not the "average computer user" then you may be able to put these numbers into perspective and understand how they came to be.
I can see how one may come to his conclusion. It is certainly not unreasonable. I do have another thought that is in line with this thinking.
Would the better literacy and general education not yield more technology which would result in increased production? Sure longer working hours contribute, but generally speaking, if you have more educated people, you have more people thinking constructively. I tend to think that the longer hours were a not large contribution, but rather, what people were able to do in those hours was the bigger issue. So really, the better education allowed people to develop ways to produce more by changing how the labor did something instead of just doing something for longer.
Just a thought really, I hope that came through as I intended.
Give me a break. If the market was fractured you would still see just as much spam and malware. The problem would merely change - do you think that these people would not adopt? Throughout the short history of the modern internet, the malware/spam market has been ahead of the game, all things considered. It is much more of a reactionary industry than a preventative one. People make malware and then we stop it, that is how it goes. If your OS's market share proves to be worth targeting, it will be. That being said, to think that more OS's would create market shares small enough that nobody would create virii or malware for any of them is just dumb.
Wrist problems with using a mouse? What? Sounds to me like you need to make some sensitivity adjustments to your mouse to require move movement. If you can can jump from one side of the screen to the other with a flick of the wrist, you need to cut your sens by half at least. You should use arm to navigate the screen and the wrist should be used for precision and smaller movements.
Another thing that makes using a mouse much more comfortable is to move where it rests. To the right of the keyboard is the worse place... so uncomfortable. I keep all my mice, at work or home, directly to the right of me. Essentially I am the apex of a right angle with my keyboard and mouse. Try it, stick your arm out and you'll see how much more natural it feels. The only gripe you might have is that your hand is next to the keyboard anymore, but that is not an issue in the least. You will find it makes no difference at all, either way your right hand is completely removed from the keyboard.
The iPhone can _maybe_ benefit from something like this, but not the iPod. The iPhone has personal information (maybe), but really it does not make sense for either device. Why is it the treat their customer as thieves a,s the solution to 'thieves.'
Yes. It is nice to be able to keep some tabs open overnight and not have to force quit FF to free up the memory and start a new session. I do not know about you, but a 900MB memory footprint after 2 days seems... well it seems just a tad excessive.
There are three main areas the government is involved in with its people. They would be the economy, culture, and social issues.
Libs - Big government in economy, small in social and culture
Repubs - Big government in social and cultural issues, but not economy.
Libertarians - Small in all three
Illegal wiretaps for cameramen? I can recall nothing of that nature. Stories involving cameramen and not releasing certain information about the contents of the film sure, but your reply just just plain ol FUD.
The government is not allowing us to use the internet and see Google Maps. We are allowed to do anything unless we are told we are not allowed to in this country. You trying to be slick in how you word things, but in turn, you just twisted reality to suit your point. That does not even go to the point that because it is our right, if they tried to take it away, we would fight for it and certainly win. They government can and does do shady things, but nothing like the blatant disregard of rights that taking away Google Maps would be. You could argue about the erosion of rights about the Patriot Act, but even that is not set in stone and is constantly challenged.
You sound like you are just trying to say, "Who is watching the watchers." Adding the FUD takes away from what you were trying to say I think:(
Well you are a complete fool if you are judging an items success mere days after its release. Who knows what potential problems or competitors hinder Apples new foothold into the market. At the very earliest we can start making these measures is 2 or 3 months. Just like the PS3 comparisons, it is unbelievably naive to draw conclusions so soon. The PS3 sold out instantly for a bit and now some time later we have a much better view of what is really happening.
iTunes, innovation? Their marketing and design made it the huge hit it was, not iTunes. iTunes had nothing to do with the iPods success. It helped with online music sales, sure, but as for the player itself, having to use iTunes was a bad thing.
Haha I deserve it to a degree. Powerpoint is not a selling point for many, sure, but it was merely an example of something somewhat common for corporate users. Forgive my bad example, even though it is accurate. I claimed absolutely everyone needed this feature? In no way did I do such a thing.
In 2 years, those lines will be blurred. The most successful the iPhone is, the more other companies will move in that design direction. I am sure Apple will design in their direction too. You make it sound impossible that another company can produce a user friendly phone while being sleek at the same time. At the rate things are progressing in the mobile sector, how can you really believe the iPhone will be in a class of its own? as you said.
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They made the right choice for Mill Ave in my opinion. Those spots were at a premium, but on the other end, traffic on Mill Ave is nonstop. The street is primarily known for its bars and it is the busiest at night when the bars are open. Changing the spaces to cab only not only helps reduce traffic on the street, but it encourages students to take a cab home instead of trying to drive home. A bouncer can throw someone in a cab instead of out on the street, which is fine by me. Also, cars parked on the street were damaged more than any car in a parking garage. People leaned all over and fell into cars drunk all the time. On the traffic end, now people do not cruise the street several times looking for space or worse yet, stopping in the middle of road as someone gets in, starts there car, and finally vacates the space.
As for your fear of something being stolen from your car in the garage or the Park It area, that is not my experience in the least. I have never heard of anyone every having anything done to there car while park around Mill Ave. There is a strong police presence on the weekend and security guards are in some of the garages so just find one that has one if you are worried about it. The cost to park has always been 0 for me. Park It charges, but they also validate, as does anywhere else. Your ASU decal usually takes care of any other issues anyways.
Or 1 song with 2 remixes and an instrumental? $7 is way to much. You can get a solid EP (4-7 tracks) for that price or just a little more. The EP also has new songs that would be otherwise unavailable on the bands LP(most of the time).
Not really, there are not nearly enough of them to weed out all the bad students.
Allow me to preface this by saying that some people who are motivated can go to these schools, absorb the knowledge around, and end up doing very well. These people work hard and get the most out of the school they are paying for.
Now that that is out of the way, for everyone else, they will end up having their 'gaming college' amount to little more than time served at a school. I have attended these schools which turned into a game school while I was there (CIS/CSC for me). TFA points out some truths, but I only want to focus on something that afflicts many technology focused schools, but game design programs even more.
These kids are lazy. Your average game degree student has a basic knowledge of computing principles, may have tried coding/art, and is immersed in geek/nerd culture/lifestyle. They go to school only with an interest in games, thinking they want to do what they love. I will always support that, but you have to back up your passion for games with a passion to make games for a living and most completely lack the latter. Countless students attended class for a couple semesters and once the coding or advanced modeling classes came around, the classes were empty. These students elected to miss class to play games all the time. They have gaming machines on campus where you can play games on break. I would constantly find kids who should be in the class I was attending on these machines.
Anything of worth for these students meant little to them. They think they can go to school, learn how to draft a Game Design Doc and send that off to publishers and then wait for the call where someone offers them millions to create their game.
Color me a troll, but these students were lazy and had no ambition to actually do or learn anything. They were generally delusional about what working in the game industry entailed and the staff at the school did little to educate them.
So, this is saying if you join a community/website then you are probably inclined to be interested or involved in whatever the subject matter that site is. What a shocker, people belong and participate in things that interest them. This has been true forever, give me a break. I wonder if everyone involved in drafting and signing the Declaration of Independence were into politics in some form?
Another article aiming just to get hits while producing nothing that would be seen as being anything more than 'mildly entertaining'.
Blizzard has been hitting the nail on the head since Warcraft II. Every game breaks and old record set by itself for sales. Battle.net was a huge success and they have had nothing but success for over a decade.
Why lie?
Explain to me how gold farmers were a problem in Beta? They were not because there is no money in selling gold that everyone knows will poof.
Hacks were also not an issue in Beta either. I never once remember any discussion of any hack during alpha or beta, never, not once.
Exploits are considered bugs in beta too. Once you hit release, it is an exploit.
Or Google can pay 4.6B and add the other two restrictions themselves? They should remove them as they said they would, otherwise they just tailors the spectrum so it could sell it to Google and I... I do not want to live a country that does that.
No sorry, that is not the bottleneck. A site will still render fine if a call to an offsite server is not responding or is slow. The local server does not need that information to load in order to complete its request... it simply makes the request and moves on to the next. The local site generates the element the ad is going to be displayed in, makes the request and continues on. How does it matter to the local server if the offsite call does not respond? Unless something locally is depending on whatever is received from the offsite call, it should not effect the rest of the page loading.
You are either making this up or visiting the worse sites around, both of which do not prove that the ad servers are the problem. If you were looking at a blank page waiting for Analytics, which you aren't, it is webmasters fault. Google code is to be placed at the END of the page... why do you think that is? So everything else can render before Google is called, this not having any effect on the speed the content of your page is loaded, but the overall load(See: Done) may be longer. Second, your computer does not call Google. Analytics, just like any other stat thing, takes your variables, stored in your browser, and sends the info to Google, you do not really send anything, Google collects the info from your browser and sends it. Other stat programs do the same exact thing, except it is server side so the data does not have to be sent offsite.
You have the problem with your computer and your settings if you are really having the problems you describe. I am visit a plethora of sites every single day and never have to do what you are claiming to be doing. you even imply it is a common thing, which makes me even more skeptical.
While the site may not fully load (See: Done) the sites contents loading should not dependent on the ad servers. Ad servers, as described in the summary, are not part of the site server, thus making it impossible for it to be the bottleneck of the site. Everything server side will load at its usual rate, and the calls to outside servers will be handled at the usual rate of the other server. One should not have an impact on the other unless something is designed that way, in which case it is the programmers fault more than anyones.
Sure I would rather have the quickest possible times to (Done), but if the only thing holding me up is an ad or Analytics, excuse me for not caring to much.
Well regardless of the outcome of the program, at least the admitted the issue as being true. People know more about software that are not directly affiliated with the USPTO. Knowing and admitting that this is true is a significant step in the process of fixing the system. Seeing that the door is open, regardless of how wide, is a good sign that things may be able to worked out with technology and all other patents alike.
Of course this is common. These people not using FF after downloading are the same people that have AOL icons on their desktop they never use. Have old trial version software all over their comp, pre-installed or not. As nerds and geeks, we usually uninstall stuff we do not need, but you are telling you that you have installed and used everything you have downloaded? I know I run a pretty tight ship when it comes to my machines, but I know I have downloaded things and not used them for whatever reason.
Back to the average Joe, they do this way more often then us. They get the link to download for whatever reason and download it with good intention, but not everyone installs it. Of those that do install, they try to use it, realize it is too different or whatever and go back to IE without bothering to uninstall... that is not important to them. To them, having 100 programs installed is the same as 1 - they know no better.
If you realize that you, being a slashdot reading computer user, are not the "average computer user" then you may be able to put these numbers into perspective and understand how they came to be.
I can see how one may come to his conclusion. It is certainly not unreasonable. I do have another thought that is in line with this thinking.
Would the better literacy and general education not yield more technology which would result in increased production? Sure longer working hours contribute, but generally speaking, if you have more educated people, you have more people thinking constructively. I tend to think that the longer hours were a not large contribution, but rather, what people were able to do in those hours was the bigger issue. So really, the better education allowed people to develop ways to produce more by changing how the labor did something instead of just doing something for longer.
Just a thought really, I hope that came through as I intended.
Give me a break. If the market was fractured you would still see just as much spam and malware. The problem would merely change - do you think that these people would not adopt? Throughout the short history of the modern internet, the malware/spam market has been ahead of the game, all things considered. It is much more of a reactionary industry than a preventative one. People make malware and then we stop it, that is how it goes. If your OS's market share proves to be worth targeting, it will be. That being said, to think that more OS's would create market shares small enough that nobody would create virii or malware for any of them is just dumb.
Wrist problems with using a mouse? What? Sounds to me like you need to make some sensitivity adjustments to your mouse to require move movement. If you can can jump from one side of the screen to the other with a flick of the wrist, you need to cut your sens by half at least. You should use arm to navigate the screen and the wrist should be used for precision and smaller movements.
Another thing that makes using a mouse much more comfortable is to move where it rests. To the right of the keyboard is the worse place... so uncomfortable. I keep all my mice, at work or home, directly to the right of me. Essentially I am the apex of a right angle with my keyboard and mouse. Try it, stick your arm out and you'll see how much more natural it feels. The only gripe you might have is that your hand is next to the keyboard anymore, but that is not an issue in the least. You will find it makes no difference at all, either way your right hand is completely removed from the keyboard.
The iPhone can _maybe_ benefit from something like this, but not the iPod. The iPhone has personal information (maybe), but really it does not make sense for either device. Why is it the treat their customer as thieves a,s the solution to 'thieves.'
Yes. It is nice to be able to keep some tabs open overnight and not have to force quit FF to free up the memory and start a new session. I do not know about you, but a 900MB memory footprint after 2 days seems... well it seems just a tad excessive.
There are three main areas the government is involved in with its people. They would be the economy, culture, and social issues. Libs - Big government in economy, small in social and culture Repubs - Big government in social and cultural issues, but not economy. Libertarians - Small in all three
Google Search: What I am looking for -blog
Ahh, much better.
Illegal wiretaps for cameramen? I can recall nothing of that nature. Stories involving cameramen and not releasing certain information about the contents of the film sure, but your reply just just plain ol FUD.
:(
The government is not allowing us to use the internet and see Google Maps. We are allowed to do anything unless we are told we are not allowed to in this country. You trying to be slick in how you word things, but in turn, you just twisted reality to suit your point. That does not even go to the point that because it is our right, if they tried to take it away, we would fight for it and certainly win. They government can and does do shady things, but nothing like the blatant disregard of rights that taking away Google Maps would be. You could argue about the erosion of rights about the Patriot Act, but even that is not set in stone and is constantly challenged.
You sound like you are just trying to say, "Who is watching the watchers." Adding the FUD takes away from what you were trying to say I think
Well you are a complete fool if you are judging an items success mere days after its release. Who knows what potential problems or competitors hinder Apples new foothold into the market. At the very earliest we can start making these measures is 2 or 3 months. Just like the PS3 comparisons, it is unbelievably naive to draw conclusions so soon. The PS3 sold out instantly for a bit and now some time later we have a much better view of what is really happening.
Ill chalk your reply up as a 'koolaid comment' ~
iTunes, innovation? Their marketing and design made it the huge hit it was, not iTunes. iTunes had nothing to do with the iPods success. It helped with online music sales, sure, but as for the player itself, having to use iTunes was a bad thing.
Haha I deserve it to a degree. Powerpoint is not a selling point for many, sure, but it was merely an example of something somewhat common for corporate users. Forgive my bad example, even though it is accurate. I claimed absolutely everyone needed this feature? In no way did I do such a thing.
In 2 years, those lines will be blurred. The most successful the iPhone is, the more other companies will move in that design direction. I am sure Apple will design in their direction too. You make it sound impossible that another company can produce a user friendly phone while being sleek at the same time. At the rate things are progressing in the mobile sector, how can you really believe the iPhone will be in a class of its own? as you said.