Your mention of cocaine is incorrect -- the "naturally occurring" part is coca. Cocaine is what you get after isolating the alkaloid and processing into a pure form.
It is my opinion that Demigod sucked. My reasons are terrible AI for solo play, and laggy netcode over a LAN. I do, indeed, own a legitimate copy of Demigod... and it's sat, ignored, in the corner since a week after I bought it. It was also a clone of a Warcraft 3 mod that had other clones produced shortly before or after it.
Agreed, although research in those fields (particularly embedded systems) also get you a lot of the experience.
The flavor of coding you want to do is a major factor here--lower-level development (particularly embedded systems work) is much easier to get into as an EE (and a heck of a lot more applicable than most CS work). If you want to be a nuts-on-bolts applications developer, then get in line behind the cheap foreign workers (if large company).
Sociology is a widely applicable field--understanding and research into how people (groups) think and act has applications from helping people quit smoking (tons of money in that research) to working with special-needs children to managing a workplace.
Friend of mine finished his sociology master's degree just now and has been working multiple, related, jobs as an intern.
I have an EE degree. What's a good 2nd degree? CMP ENG or Comp Sci? I want to be eligible to apply for more jobs.
Stay with your interests--Comp Sci will get you more theoretics, engineering more practical. Otherwise, there's a lot of crossover. If you liked engineering, stay with engineering.
I'd say do a MS in EE or computer engineering--several universities offer a non-thesis option (thesis will introduce you to more research).
Hehe, slammed my university too. Wonder if it'll affect the decision campus IT makes regarding renewing the contract at the end of the fiscal year more than inertia/kickbacks/fellatio.
I'm also quite pleased with myself that I called the "false positive" scenario when the issue was first noticed here.
Right. So you're telling me I should purchase your game, sight unseen.
That all I have to go on is whatever your marketing department has cooked up?
I just love knowing that I'd need to pay you for the privilege of finding out that your game is garbage. Here's my counter-proposal then: You discount my purchase of your demo against the finished product and/or allow me to return your crippled product if it does not perform to my satisfaction.
That is the the root of the issue at hand. From a reductionist standpoint, you could make that argument about anything. An inked cartoon character is just an ordered and structured collection of pigments. This construct can be represented by a polar graph of molecules and their locations. This can be made into an equation, which is just a mathematical construct, which is just an abstract arbitrary construct of mankind, which you cannot patent.
That is the trouble with patents, delineating intellectual property from reductionist components. It can be argued both ways.
That's why you trademark and/or copyright the mouse, not patent it. I can copyright my finished implementation of the equation just fine.
Sometimes I wonder if my cat has it in for me; I've seen oddball effects triggered by the cat on the keyboard (before I shoo him off). Makes me want to look into getting software to check for that andASDSADGASDGFDSHJHJadasdAFGDSFGSDF&NO CARRIER
A properly-written program should be able to parse the bill, make the appropriate changes, and the reassemble it. Doesn't help with translating the legalese, but at least you have a clue as to what's been patched.
Do you have a source for this story/study? I'd like to read it and use it to make a case for teaching LaTeX in my college (MS Word is the primary method of putting together docs here).
Bad example: nVidia is actually one of those vendors who actively release drivers for platforms other than Windows. And not just Linux, but FreeBSD and Solaris too!
Get a Wacom graphics tablet. I use my little Bamboo Fun for general pointing with no hassles at all, and less RSI. It surprises anyone who watches me work on my laptop.
I always thought that the two Star Trek adventure games by Interplay (25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites) were well-put together with a minimum of moon-logic. I think I still have the CD-ROM version of Judgment Rites (with all the voice acting) somewhere.
Okay, okay, "Museum Piece" kinda stretched it there for a bit.
Movie rental places (Blockbuster, etc) do the same thing with their rental units.
Employees get access to most of the items (games/movies) a week or so before it hits the shelves. Now, there were some rules that needed to be followed (bring it back on-time or before the release date or you're fired), but it worked out.
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Have you ever read up on Amdahl's law?
I'll see your Amdahl's Law, and raise you Gustafson's Law.
Your mention of cocaine is incorrect -- the "naturally occurring" part is coca. Cocaine is what you get after isolating the alkaloid and processing into a pure form.
It is my opinion that Demigod sucked. My reasons are terrible AI for solo play, and laggy netcode over a LAN. I do, indeed, own a legitimate copy of Demigod... and it's sat, ignored, in the corner since a week after I bought it. It was also a clone of a Warcraft 3 mod that had other clones produced shortly before or after it.
More like deciding which Ferengi is going to continue to profit off of you.
Obviously, the answer is Cthulhu. "Why settle for the lesser of two evils?"
Mind the tacos though. They're tasty, but non-euclidean.
Agreed, although research in those fields (particularly embedded systems) also get you a lot of the experience.
The flavor of coding you want to do is a major factor here--lower-level development (particularly embedded systems work) is much easier to get into as an EE (and a heck of a lot more applicable than most CS work). If you want to be a nuts-on-bolts applications developer, then get in line behind the cheap foreign workers (if large company).
Sociology is a widely applicable field--understanding and research into how people (groups) think and act has applications from helping people quit smoking (tons of money in that research) to working with special-needs children to managing a workplace.
Friend of mine finished his sociology master's degree just now and has been working multiple, related, jobs as an intern.
I have an EE degree. What's a good 2nd degree? CMP ENG or Comp Sci? I want to be eligible to apply for more jobs.
Stay with your interests--Comp Sci will get you more theoretics, engineering more practical. Otherwise, there's a lot of crossover. If you liked engineering, stay with engineering.
I'd say do a MS in EE or computer engineering--several universities offer a non-thesis option (thesis will introduce you to more research).
Hehe, slammed my university too. Wonder if it'll affect the decision campus IT makes regarding renewing the contract at the end of the fiscal year more than inertia/kickbacks/fellatio.
I'm also quite pleased with myself that I called the "false positive" scenario when the issue was first noticed here.
Right. So you're telling me I should purchase your game, sight unseen.
That all I have to go on is whatever your marketing department has cooked up?
I just love knowing that I'd need to pay you for the privilege of finding out that your game is garbage. Here's my counter-proposal then: You discount my purchase of your demo against the finished product and/or allow me to return your crippled product if it does not perform to my satisfaction.
That is the the root of the issue at hand. From a reductionist standpoint, you could make that argument about anything. An inked cartoon character is just an ordered and structured collection of pigments. This construct can be represented by a polar graph of molecules and their locations. This can be made into an equation, which is just a mathematical construct, which is just an abstract arbitrary construct of mankind, which you cannot patent. That is the trouble with patents, delineating intellectual property from reductionist components. It can be argued both ways.
That's why you trademark and/or copyright the mouse, not patent it.
I can copyright my finished implementation of the equation just fine.
Why am I reminded about the plot to Outpost 2? Must be the "OMG TEH WORLD WILL END!".
I didn't notice anything similar to that with my B&N nook.
Take your pick. Microsoft Security Essentials used to be OneCare (now free), Avira has had a decent free offering for years.
Sometimes I wonder if my cat has it in for me; I've seen oddball effects triggered by the cat on the keyboard (before I shoo him off). Makes me want to look into getting software to check for that andASDSADGASDGFDSHJHJadasdAFGDSFGSDF&NO CARRIER
Thorium apparently also makes good railgun and particle blaster ammunition.
If they manage college, they'll probably learn how to cook rice real quick.
Ah, but that pattern doesn't capture the space after 'slashdot'. A pattern that would work is:
s/ this afternoon//
Pedantic? Yes, but that's what I believe my GP (your P) was referring to.
A properly-written program should be able to parse the bill, make the appropriate changes, and the reassemble it. Doesn't help with translating the legalese, but at least you have a clue as to what's been patched.
Where? And are these boards all using SCSI or IDE/SATA drives?
Do you have a source for this story/study? I'd like to read it and use it to make a case for teaching LaTeX in my college (MS Word is the primary method of putting together docs here).
Bad example: nVidia is actually one of those vendors who actively release drivers for platforms other than Windows. And not just Linux, but FreeBSD and Solaris too!
Get a Wacom graphics tablet. I use my little Bamboo Fun for general pointing with no hassles at all, and less RSI. It surprises anyone who watches me work on my laptop.
I always thought that the two Star Trek adventure games by Interplay (25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites) were well-put together with a minimum of moon-logic. I think I still have the CD-ROM version of Judgment Rites (with all the voice acting) somewhere.
Okay, okay, "Museum Piece" kinda stretched it there for a bit.
Movie rental places (Blockbuster, etc) do the same thing with their rental units.
Employees get access to most of the items (games/movies) a week or so before it hits the shelves. Now, there were some rules that needed to be followed (bring it back on-time or before the release date or you're fired), but it worked out.