There is no "right to fly", but we have a right to voice our concerns about the way security is handled. Whether it's to complain that the security isn't enough, that it amounts to sexual abuse, or that it's completely ineffective, this speech is protected, right? So why are you trying to shut people up when they just want to improve the system?
Lieberman (and also Ben Nelson) are exactly why the races in Washington and Colorado are important. If it were 51 seats, the Republicans could pilfer those two to get a majority in the senate.
As someone raised in Hawaii, I'm pretty shocked that people still think that introducing yet another new species into an ecosystem is going to solve any problems. I thought we all figured this out over 100 years ago?
Showing up at a funeral wearing nothing but a bikini, or crapping your pants in a crowded bus are not "sinister" per se, but I would argue that they are nonetheless still in poor taste.
Bullshit. Mistakes are roughly stochastic, ergo, there are random elements in chess players' performance. This is why chess matches involve more than just two games.
I can't see anything on a matte screen in bright sunlight. Neither can my wife, or any of my lab mates. Outdoors in sunlight, it's easy to keep the sun from reflecting into your eyes; with a matte screen, all kinds of stray light gets reflected your way. In medium brightness (eg, at my wife's old lab, where they had very bright lighting and everything was white), glossy can be a problem, but I haven't ever had any issues. Currently, I am in sunny southern california, next to an open window, in a white room. No problems.
Off the shelf, these have the best reputation. The Mad Catz ones are pretty easy to mod, if you don't like the parts. That said, the Mad Catz Tournament Edition and Hori Real Arcade Pro sticks come with real high-end arcade parts. I think they are all designed with consoles in mind, but some come with a USB plug. I have Mad Catz's TvC stick and Hori's Wii Fight Stick and they both work fine for me (via cwiid). The Hori stick is one of their "cheap" ones, so it doesn't have good parts and they aren't easy to replace, but probably it's better than anything off of DealExtreme, and it wasn't that expensive before it was discontinued. The X-Gaming ones are probably ok too (though impressions seem more mixed), but I didn't want two sticks attached to each other (the solos have been listed as out of stock for some time now).
I thought most arcade sticks were 8-way digital ones? I was going to say that maybe analog sticks became more common after I stopped playing at arcades, but my experience covers most of the games that run well on MAME. Most of those games were designed with 4 or 8-way digital sticks in mind, so I'm not sure what the problem is. For example, I find it difficult to believe that Gyruss uses an analog stick, given that basically all shoot 'em ups (even the new ones) use 8-way digital sticks.
I think he wants a stick, but I could be wrong. MAME is an arcade emulator, after all.
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Well, yeah, I went to the lecturer. Unfortunately, in my case the lecturer was just a post-doc, who also had no pull. We did go to the chair about it, but he wasn't very excited to have to deal with that sort of thing. He was the cynical sort of professor, which I think had something to do with it.
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I agree with your sentiment, but not your conclusion. As a TA, I caught no less than 10% of my students literally copying text off of the internet and pasting it into their essays. None of them were punished in the least. The lesson I learned from the experience is that if you don't have any pull in the department, you let cheating slide because it is not worth the hassle. And this wasn't at some no-name school, either. It's one of the top research universities on the west coast.
No one. But most people have phones, and many will be playing games on them. It's like with cameras. Who buys a phone to take pictures? Basically no one, but any compact camera that comes out has to be better than a phone camera or it's DOA. I don't really care for the iPhone's design, particularly the lack of buttons, but the fact of the matter is that dedicated portable gaming devices need to justify themselves to a audience that is likely to own a phone capable of competent gaming. Chief among those phones (at the moment) are the iPhone 4 and EVO.
I used 960x640 for the iPhone 4 resolution, which I got from Wikipedia. Surely they wouldn't change the aspect ratio or use non-square pixels? As for the other numbers, do they really matter? By the time the 3DS comes out (say, March 2011 for NA), the iPhone 4 (or some Android phone we haven't yet heard of) will be the portable to beat.
Even counting both frames, the 3DS has 1/3 the resolution of the iPhone 4, so I would guess that pushing polys would be more important. I have read that the PICA200 is easy to program for, on account of its multitudinous built-in functions. That probably also improves battery life somewhat.
Perhaps you are too casual a gamer to know what the bridge games are? You could have educated yourself simply by reading the article, but I'll mention a couple of them here: Mario Kart Wii and New Super Mario Bros.
I was going to make a reference to The Shining here, but Slashdot's lameness filter put an end to that...
I think an important part of his argument is that current processors aren't perfect anyway, and they are only going to get worse as we move to smaller processes. The argument is that, eventually, everyone should be writing more robust code anyway, so why not get something out of it. I don't know whether that is true or not, but to argue against his ideas, you need to address his points...
I would expect that employers would quickly discover which institutions are crap and which ones aren't which makes the diploma worth more-or-less what you put into it... But then I am in a relatively small field with a degree from a relatively well-known institution.
I believe the idea is that an individualistic program requires that individuals know everything, whereas those in a team can specialize since your team mates will handle the things you can't.
I know I am in the minority in this, but it's not like we don't know what it stands for. (Or well, maybe we don't? I thought it was "shit" but I see a lot of "fucks" in the comments.) Personally, I don't really care if my kids cuss since I did a lot of that as a kid myself. However, I don't see the point in half-censorship. Pretending like $#*! isn't "shit" and @$$ isn't "ass" is just nonsense, so just say SHIT or FUCK or whatever cuss word you want or omit it entirely. (Ditto for s*** and f***.) Now, if you can't say these things on TV, then why allow the bullshit pussy semi-censored versions? It's not like we aren't all automatically doing the transliteration in our heads. I remember swear words getting edited out of movies showing on TV when I was a young child, and even at that age it was always pretty obvious what the original line was. It is inconsistent to allow one but not the other. Again, I am on the they-should-just-allow-cussing side of that argument, but it is a different (though related) argument.
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There is no "right to fly", but we have a right to voice our concerns about the way security is handled. Whether it's to complain that the security isn't enough, that it amounts to sexual abuse, or that it's completely ineffective, this speech is protected, right? So why are you trying to shut people up when they just want to improve the system?
I thought this was obvious, but the agricultural check is not there to protect you.
If that's the case, then why can't I bring a pocket knife on an airplane?
Lieberman (and also Ben Nelson) are exactly why the races in Washington and Colorado are important. If it were 51 seats, the Republicans could pilfer those two to get a majority in the senate.
Timing is wrapped up in the luck. An idea before its time is still a failure.
I assume you are not trying to explain the resurgence of vinyl?
As someone raised in Hawaii, I'm pretty shocked that people still think that introducing yet another new species into an ecosystem is going to solve any problems. I thought we all figured this out over 100 years ago?
Showing up at a funeral wearing nothing but a bikini, or crapping your pants in a crowded bus are not "sinister" per se, but I would argue that they are nonetheless still in poor taste.
I had thought that burning books of any kind was in poor taste, but I guess it doesn't really matter if the books are still in print ...
Bullshit. Mistakes are roughly stochastic, ergo, there are random elements in chess players' performance. This is why chess matches involve more than just two games.
I can't see anything on a matte screen in bright sunlight. Neither can my wife, or any of my lab mates. Outdoors in sunlight, it's easy to keep the sun from reflecting into your eyes; with a matte screen, all kinds of stray light gets reflected your way. In medium brightness (eg, at my wife's old lab, where they had very bright lighting and everything was white), glossy can be a problem, but I haven't ever had any issues. Currently, I am in sunny southern california, next to an open window, in a white room. No problems.
Off the shelf, these have the best reputation. The Mad Catz ones are pretty easy to mod, if you don't like the parts. That said, the Mad Catz Tournament Edition and Hori Real Arcade Pro sticks come with real high-end arcade parts. I think they are all designed with consoles in mind, but some come with a USB plug. I have Mad Catz's TvC stick and Hori's Wii Fight Stick and they both work fine for me (via cwiid). The Hori stick is one of their "cheap" ones, so it doesn't have good parts and they aren't easy to replace, but probably it's better than anything off of DealExtreme, and it wasn't that expensive before it was discontinued. The X-Gaming ones are probably ok too (though impressions seem more mixed), but I didn't want two sticks attached to each other (the solos have been listed as out of stock for some time now).
I thought most arcade sticks were 8-way digital ones? I was going to say that maybe analog sticks became more common after I stopped playing at arcades, but my experience covers most of the games that run well on MAME. Most of those games were designed with 4 or 8-way digital sticks in mind, so I'm not sure what the problem is. For example, I find it difficult to believe that Gyruss uses an analog stick, given that basically all shoot 'em ups (even the new ones) use 8-way digital sticks.
I think he wants a stick, but I could be wrong. MAME is an arcade emulator, after all.
Well, yeah, I went to the lecturer. Unfortunately, in my case the lecturer was just a post-doc, who also had no pull. We did go to the chair about it, but he wasn't very excited to have to deal with that sort of thing. He was the cynical sort of professor, which I think had something to do with it.
I agree with your sentiment, but not your conclusion. As a TA, I caught no less than 10% of my students literally copying text off of the internet and pasting it into their essays. None of them were punished in the least. The lesson I learned from the experience is that if you don't have any pull in the department, you let cheating slide because it is not worth the hassle. And this wasn't at some no-name school, either. It's one of the top research universities on the west coast.
No one. But most people have phones, and many will be playing games on them. It's like with cameras. Who buys a phone to take pictures? Basically no one, but any compact camera that comes out has to be better than a phone camera or it's DOA. I don't really care for the iPhone's design, particularly the lack of buttons, but the fact of the matter is that dedicated portable gaming devices need to justify themselves to a audience that is likely to own a phone capable of competent gaming. Chief among those phones (at the moment) are the iPhone 4 and EVO.
I used 960x640 for the iPhone 4 resolution, which I got from Wikipedia. Surely they wouldn't change the aspect ratio or use non-square pixels? As for the other numbers, do they really matter? By the time the 3DS comes out (say, March 2011 for NA), the iPhone 4 (or some Android phone we haven't yet heard of) will be the portable to beat.
Even counting both frames, the 3DS has 1/3 the resolution of the iPhone 4, so I would guess that pushing polys would be more important. I have read that the PICA200 is easy to program for, on account of its multitudinous built-in functions. That probably also improves battery life somewhat.
Perhaps you are too casual a gamer to know what the bridge games are? You could have educated yourself simply by reading the article, but I'll mention a couple of them here: Mario Kart Wii and New Super Mario Bros.
I was going to make a reference to The Shining here, but Slashdot's lameness filter put an end to that ...
I think an important part of his argument is that current processors aren't perfect anyway, and they are only going to get worse as we move to smaller processes. The argument is that, eventually, everyone should be writing more robust code anyway, so why not get something out of it. I don't know whether that is true or not, but to argue against his ideas, you need to address his points ...
Sounds like a worthless degree, which brings me back to my original assertion: schools that produce worthless graduates are selling worthless degrees.
I would expect that employers would quickly discover which institutions are crap and which ones aren't which makes the diploma worth more-or-less what you put into it ... But then I am in a relatively small field with a degree from a relatively well-known institution.
I believe the idea is that an individualistic program requires that individuals know everything, whereas those in a team can specialize since your team mates will handle the things you can't.
I know I am in the minority in this, but it's not like we don't know what it stands for. (Or well, maybe we don't? I thought it was "shit" but I see a lot of "fucks" in the comments.) Personally, I don't really care if my kids cuss since I did a lot of that as a kid myself. However, I don't see the point in half-censorship. Pretending like $#*! isn't "shit" and @$$ isn't "ass" is just nonsense, so just say SHIT or FUCK or whatever cuss word you want or omit it entirely. (Ditto for s*** and f***.) Now, if you can't say these things on TV, then why allow the bullshit pussy semi-censored versions? It's not like we aren't all automatically doing the transliteration in our heads. I remember swear words getting edited out of movies showing on TV when I was a young child, and even at that age it was always pretty obvious what the original line was. It is inconsistent to allow one but not the other. Again, I am on the they-should-just-allow-cussing side of that argument, but it is a different (though related) argument.