If you go in with the plan of utilizing the resources, the professors with years or decades of experience, the research labs, etc, those things can really pay off if you will work with them.
If you go in with that attitude, your fellow students, and likely most of the faculty, will hate you, because you'll be the one in lecture who asks questions that won't be on Friday's test.
Or did you really mean 1960s-style crotchety nasty old crappy electronics with 2N2222 and SCRs and diodes and neon lamps?
It's okay to be afraid of something you don't understand anymore (for some reason.) It's not okay, however, to spatter the piss running down your leg all over it. Go ahead and stick to slapping together the modules that the marketing reps from the parts dealers tell you will do the job right. Your boss is probably stupid enough to buy into it. Glue the whole mess together with some DSP software. We're impressed.
Saving money is: a dual op-amp design that costs a quarter cent instead of using a microcontroller that costs eight cents.
You'd be amazed at the quality of the parts that went into 60's high end test gear. Let's just say that in that era the Asians were busily focused on making shitty six-transistor AM radios. Not counterfeiting shitty electrolyte into caps that went into any equipment that mattered. The calibration in, for example, my Fluke Differential Voltmeter is rock solid. Can't say that for any newer gear where the 'calibration' is some battery backed-up RAM block.
The calibration cost for older Tek gear and plugins can be frightening, though. Because there are tweaks for everything. So a high three figure calibration bill for a high frequency differential plug-in is to be expected. But the stuff just sits there with the tweak points solidly in place, so it really doesn't go out of spec very fast.
O'Reilly has published some fairly dystopian books on technology, books written by some of his associates. For example, The Future Does Not Compute by Steve Talbott is excellent, though now a little old (published in 1995).
It's still at Version 11, correct? My O'Reilly X11 manual set, from before O'Reilly was mentioning the World Wide Web on their book covers, is for X11. Volumes 3 and 8 are the important stuff, for configuring the Tab Window Manager, using Fonts and setting Resources, etc.
It's all still completely useful, actually. A NetBSD base install and the O'Reilly X11 manuals are all the docs you need.
In the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, an outside agent like Quatar wasn't shipping in large volumes of high technology, and the Ghetto residents weren't firing rockets out at civillian areas of Warsaw. When they took an offensive at all, it was at German military forces.
If you're solo-driving an SUV around to commute you're doing it wrong. If you're sitting in that SUV in stalled commuter traffic in Chicago, you're doing it way wrong. There are many lower-cost personal vehicle choices. It doesn't even have to be something 'weird' like a Toyota 'Preach-at-us' to be a better alternative.
So your cost figures are so screwed up right away up front that it's hard to want to dig further into anything else you wrote.
I have always loved it when people in favor of 'more regulation' have to reach back to 19th century horrors.
The drug and medical device industries LOVE regulations. It protects them and blocks any new competitors from entering the marketplace. Also keeps the 'base' cost high so they can slap on their profitable percentage on top.
One of the most successful examples of a safety compliance enforcer in the United States is the Underwriter's Laboratory. Which is an entirely private organization.
It's like when you drill that important in the aluminum fixture you're working on, but then break off a tap in the hole while threading it. Now you've got a little bit of hardened tool steel stuck in the hole.
The most hackable car would probably be the VW Beetle. So many cool addons and mods exist. I am talking about the original Beetle, of course, not the rounded-Rabbit.
Hacking is supposed to be good stuff here, right? Or did something change?
Candy Crush is a massive pig of a game, though. One that is close to collapsing under the weight of the bullshit they've shoved in there. The spash screens, side-game spam and extra garbage that rumbles into your face while you're trying to... well... get to the screens to crush candy, are really annoying. Thank goodness it's such a well-cloned game, because there are many lightweight competitors where you can actually play the game. King, the publishers of Candy Crush Saga, are a Zynga wannabe. Let's hope they die soon, the way Zynga is headed: a company that has grown to the point where they have way too many people trying to chisel money out of the players of their product. When a critical mass develops to the point where they have whole teams working on the splash screens, mini-games and diversions, the cubicle farm needs to be collapsed.
A lot of the games that have IAP are 'pay to win' games. One of the most popular games in the market from one of the successful developers is Hay Day by Supercell. It's essentially a 'play to win' game. My spouse plays it and has a lot of fun doing so but has never, ever, made an In App Purchase to do so. The leaderboards are completely meaningless and irrelevant to people who've never paid for 'gems' though, because the 'Top Players' are entitled rich children (one presumes) who've bought their way to the top. In all categories of 'Leader' on that game, the people who spend money are at the top. That's just how pay-to-win goes, and the game has to be fun on the merits of gameplay to be successful. Which Hay Day is. There is some peculiar sociology going on there, because the game's popularity is clearly NOT geared by being on the Leaderboard.
Nope. It would enable games with a 'trail' shareware version, and a 'paid' full version. There are many games that are distributed this way in the App Store. In particular, one of the market leaders, Minecraft Pocket Edition, is distributed this way.
The 'entitlements' model for 'upgrading' are just an alternative path. With a 'block IAP' checkbox, it would cease to exist.
A 15 minute refund period would be delicious. It would completely destroy the IAP marketplace. I'd be able to again buy high quality games for $5-15 and not be faced with game designers who focus on nickel-and-dime ripping me off. They'd actually have to work on making the game fun enough for me to be willing to pay for the non-trial version. Wolfenstein 3D and later Doom did this well with shareware trial versions. Similarly a whole bunch of games from that era: Jill of the Jungle, Commander Keen, etc.
"Disable In App Purchases" should be a checkbox in the settings for the App Market and it should simply render invisible any games that incorporate In App Purchases, just the way games for the Tablet don't appear in the Google Play market when I open the Google Play app on my cellphone.
Why is this phrased from the extreme viewpoint of one of the sides in the issue? The phrase "Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom?" could be rewritten "Why Do You Hate Me Exercising My Freedom To Steal Your Kid's Cellphone By Trading It For a Cheap Toy He Wants?"
I'm sorry. The issue concerns In App Purchases that are engineered to allow gullible kids to rack up charges on their parent's phone.
So you're saying Microsoft needs to play a more political game, keep an eye on government, and be prepared to respond and manipulate as needed? You're saying they've not done a 'good enough' job of that in China?
A three year degree in 'electronic engineering' means it wasn't someone with an Electrical Engineering degree from an accredited college. Since degrees are either two or four year, it also means that dude probably took three years to complete the two year Associate's degree.
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If you go in with the plan of utilizing the resources, the professors with years or decades of experience, the research labs, etc, those things can really pay off if you will work with them.
If you go in with that attitude, your fellow students, and likely most of the faculty, will hate you, because you'll be the one in lecture who asks questions that won't be on Friday's test.
You want the vegan, not the dude who lived on potato chips and Taco Bell.
Or did you really mean 1960s-style crotchety nasty old crappy electronics with 2N2222 and SCRs and diodes and neon lamps?
It's okay to be afraid of something you don't understand anymore (for some reason.) It's not okay, however, to spatter the piss running down your leg all over it. Go ahead and stick to slapping together the modules that the marketing reps from the parts dealers tell you will do the job right. Your boss is probably stupid enough to buy into it. Glue the whole mess together with some DSP software. We're impressed.
Saving money is: a dual op-amp design that costs a quarter cent instead of using a microcontroller that costs eight cents.
You'd be amazed at the quality of the parts that went into 60's high end test gear. Let's just say that in that era the Asians were busily focused on making shitty six-transistor AM radios. Not counterfeiting shitty electrolyte into caps that went into any equipment that mattered. The calibration in, for example, my Fluke Differential Voltmeter is rock solid. Can't say that for any newer gear where the 'calibration' is some battery backed-up RAM block.
The calibration cost for older Tek gear and plugins can be frightening, though. Because there are tweaks for everything. So a high three figure calibration bill for a high frequency differential plug-in is to be expected. But the stuff just sits there with the tweak points solidly in place, so it really doesn't go out of spec very fast.
Probably a knock-off asian brand. Like the Sozy cassette tape a friend of mine had years ago that he'd bought somewhere in the Middle East.
That's a marketing gimmick, not a business model.
O'Reilly has published some fairly dystopian books on technology, books written by some of his associates. For example, The Future Does Not Compute by Steve Talbott is excellent, though now a little old (published in 1995).
It's still at Version 11, correct? My O'Reilly X11 manual set, from before O'Reilly was mentioning the World Wide Web on their book covers, is for X11. Volumes 3 and 8 are the important stuff, for configuring the Tab Window Manager, using Fonts and setting Resources, etc.
It's all still completely useful, actually. A NetBSD base install and the O'Reilly X11 manuals are all the docs you need.
You confuse us. When the two of you mate, what does the offspring look like?
In the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, an outside agent like Quatar wasn't shipping in large volumes of high technology, and the Ghetto residents weren't firing rockets out at civillian areas of Warsaw. When they took an offensive at all, it was at German military forces.
If you're solo-driving an SUV around to commute you're doing it wrong. If you're sitting in that SUV in stalled commuter traffic in Chicago, you're doing it way wrong. There are many lower-cost personal vehicle choices. It doesn't even have to be something 'weird' like a Toyota 'Preach-at-us' to be a better alternative.
So your cost figures are so screwed up right away up front that it's hard to want to dig further into anything else you wrote.
I have always loved it when people in favor of 'more regulation' have to reach back to 19th century horrors.
The drug and medical device industries LOVE regulations. It protects them and blocks any new competitors from entering the marketplace. Also keeps the 'base' cost high so they can slap on their profitable percentage on top.
One of the most successful examples of a safety compliance enforcer in the United States is the Underwriter's Laboratory. Which is an entirely private organization.
It's like when you drill that important in the aluminum fixture you're working on, but then break off a tap in the hole while threading it. Now you've got a little bit of hardened tool steel stuck in the hole.
This is a discussion of IT Personnel. It'd be hard not to feel superior.
(the toner cartridge in that LJ5 on third floor east isn't changing ITSELF, btw...)
The most hackable car would probably be the VW Beetle. So many cool addons and mods exist. I am talking about the original Beetle, of course, not the rounded-Rabbit.
Hacking is supposed to be good stuff here, right? Or did something change?
I'm certain the park would issue bar-coded or electronic armbands to each child, so that the consumption could be tagged to a specific parent.
Candy Crush is a massive pig of a game, though. One that is close to collapsing under the weight of the bullshit they've shoved in there. The spash screens, side-game spam and extra garbage that rumbles into your face while you're trying to... well... get to the screens to crush candy, are really annoying. Thank goodness it's such a well-cloned game, because there are many lightweight competitors where you can actually play the game. King, the publishers of Candy Crush Saga, are a Zynga wannabe. Let's hope they die soon, the way Zynga is headed: a company that has grown to the point where they have way too many people trying to chisel money out of the players of their product. When a critical mass develops to the point where they have whole teams working on the splash screens, mini-games and diversions, the cubicle farm needs to be collapsed.
A lot of the games that have IAP are 'pay to win' games. One of the most popular games in the market from one of the successful developers is Hay Day by Supercell. It's essentially a 'play to win' game. My spouse plays it and has a lot of fun doing so but has never, ever, made an In App Purchase to do so. The leaderboards are completely meaningless and irrelevant to people who've never paid for 'gems' though, because the 'Top Players' are entitled rich children (one presumes) who've bought their way to the top. In all categories of 'Leader' on that game, the people who spend money are at the top. That's just how pay-to-win goes, and the game has to be fun on the merits of gameplay to be successful. Which Hay Day is. There is some peculiar sociology going on there, because the game's popularity is clearly NOT geared by being on the Leaderboard.
Nope. It would enable games with a 'trail' shareware version, and a 'paid' full version. There are many games that are distributed this way in the App Store. In particular, one of the market leaders, Minecraft Pocket Edition, is distributed this way.
The 'entitlements' model for 'upgrading' are just an alternative path. With a 'block IAP' checkbox, it would cease to exist.
A 15 minute refund period would be delicious. It would completely destroy the IAP marketplace. I'd be able to again buy high quality games for $5-15 and not be faced with game designers who focus on nickel-and-dime ripping me off. They'd actually have to work on making the game fun enough for me to be willing to pay for the non-trial version. Wolfenstein 3D and later Doom did this well with shareware trial versions. Similarly a whole bunch of games from that era: Jill of the Jungle, Commander Keen, etc.
"Disable In App Purchases" should be a checkbox in the settings for the App Market and it should simply render invisible any games that incorporate In App Purchases, just the way games for the Tablet don't appear in the Google Play market when I open the Google Play app on my cellphone.
Why is this phrased from the extreme viewpoint of one of the sides in the issue? The phrase "Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom?" could be rewritten "Why Do You Hate Me Exercising My Freedom To Steal Your Kid's Cellphone By Trading It For a Cheap Toy He Wants?"
I'm sorry. The issue concerns In App Purchases that are engineered to allow gullible kids to rack up charges on their parent's phone.
Socialism is democratic worker control of the means of production, you troglodyte.
Way to go! Let one particular brand of 'socialist' define the term in as colorful a language as their doctrine specifies.
Now let's have Josef Stalin tell us what 'communism' is.
So you're saying Microsoft needs to play a more political game, keep an eye on government, and be prepared to respond and manipulate as needed? You're saying they've not done a 'good enough' job of that in China?
How disappointing.
A three year degree in 'electronic engineering' means it wasn't someone with an Electrical Engineering degree from an accredited college. Since degrees are either two or four year, it also means that dude probably took three years to complete the two year Associate's degree.
I was thinking Jimmy Dean's Pork Sausage. I mean, why not something meaningfully tasty?