Right. . . that's why half of my team uses MS Office while others use Open Office and we share documents between each other with no problems. If there were a better alternative to MS Office I'd consider using it, but as of yet I haven't found anything that's nearly as good.
There are many examples in the surrounding comments. The highlights among them are.
Immunizations are not 100% effective
Babies at home too young to be vaccinated
Elderly at home that are more susceptible
People on immunosuppressants
On top of all that, there is no good reason to not immunize children. There was one study that showed a link between autism and vaccines and it was later found out that the study actually showed no link but the numbers were falsified to satisfy an agenda. Vaccines are very safe and effective at preventing disease. The rest of us shouldn't be put at extra risk because of stupid people.
Meaning, if you don't want to vaccinate your kids, that's your right, but you shouldn't be allowed to send them to school and spread the disease to other people. A few other posts near by gave examples.
Your freedom to get diseased ends at places where you are likely to spread it to others. Or, at least it should.
I am an American, and I fully agree with this comment. And I don't know when this changed. When I went to school it was the same thing. The school wouldn't let me in if I didn't have all my vaccines, as it should be. As the old saying goes, "Your freedom to swing your arm ends at my nose." The same should apply here. You can't use your freedom to get me sick.
If you want to Target XBox Live as a platform from an indie perspective. C# with XNA is really your only option. On the plus side, it's very user friendly and easy to learn. There is also tons of free documentation online for it, with tutorials for just about anything you could want to do. Start at http://create.msdn.com/
I think the big thing we need to do is figure out WHY the prices don't come down from domestic drilling. I would bet it doesn't have nearly as much to do with the cost of drilling, and way more to do with the fact that people on Wall Street decide what a barrel of oil is worth, it doesn't matter where it comes from.
A legitimate question. With a reasonable answer. While I live really close to this park, there are several in the area. As a playground there are other parks in the area that my kids prefer and so we go there more often. It's been maybe 2 years since we have been to that park. My oldest is now almost 9, so I'm sure he remembers going there, but I don't know if he really remembers the tree. My daughter just turned 5. I'm sure she doesn't remember going there.
While I agree it maybe doesn't belong on Slashdot, I actually live about 5 minutes from the park where this tree was and would take my kids there to see this tree. Pretty magnificent. So, I at least find it cool to see it on/. even if it doesn't "really" belong here. Also, disappointed to see it go. I don't know if my kids were old enough to really remember seeing it from the last time we went there. I had been meaning to get back there, but, you know, who expect a 3500 year old tree to be suddenly gone. Also, they now suspect arson and not natural causes as originally thought.
I agree Google is responsible for their employees and will have to pay whatever consequences comes with that. I am just saying that "I" don't think this action makes Google as a whole evil. They may do some evil things, and if this is actually a Google sanctioned thing then yes this is evil. But I have worked in remote offices for companies and we often did things that weren't corporate policy and that's what I see happening here.
I don't think anyone is saying that Google shouldn't be held responsible. Just that it's probably not Google trying to be evil, but some random employee breaking the law. If corporate deals with it accordingly I don't see how you can condemn the company as a whole for it.
If the dude making your burger at the local burger hut spits on your burger does that make the whole burger hut corporation an evil business for having their employees spit in burgers? No, it makes the guy a jerk who doesn't follow corporate policy.
As far as coding resources, it doesn't have any in and of itself. All the GlobalGameJam is, is an event for people interested in game design to get together and build a game. What they do end up providing just by it's nature is programmers, artists, designers, sound engineers, and anyone else with a skill that can help in making games (and people without relevant skills that are just interested in games). Also, most of the games that come out of a thing like this are very small scale simple games. No real engine unless you decide to use something like Unity to make it. If it's something you are interested in, just sign up on the site (I think registration opens in November), list any skills you have, show up and have fun.
As far as reference to a good simple graphics package, check out http://www.unity3d.com/ and http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/tutorial/2dgame/getting_started/ Both are quite easy to use and have tons of great documentation and tutorials.
I don't know about Ludum Dare, but at the GGJ (at least the site that I go to.) The games are fully original creations, Not some preexisting game that has been adapted to the key words. Sure someone might reuse a physics library that they have written before, or some other module. But that happens in any development. But the games are definitely not premade. A large part of this is due to the fact that most of the team members don't even know each other before the event.
Go to http://globalgamejam.org/ it is the same thing, (a 48 hour design and build a game session) but it is organized globally. I have done it twice now and it is so much fun. You don't need any real experience in game development, but any helps. But, even if you don't know anything about coding, art, music, or anything like that, you can still help out by being a tester, or a gopher. It's free, and very fun. The one coming up is January 27-29 and chances are, there is a site near you. If there isn't, you can start one. All you need to know is on the web site I linked. Have fun, and game on.
If you have any interest in games then I would suggest Full Sail University in Orlando, FL. If you can afford it without working a job at the same time. The reason is, it is a 40Hr per week school. The Bachelor degree takes 21 months and it is almost exclusively CS. There are a couple of English type classes but they relate directly back to game design and development. And, because it is an accelerated program they are only one month long. So, in my opinion, this is the fastest way to a CS degree. http://www.fullsail.edu/degrees/game-development-bachelors Here is a link to the program.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh come on... EA is at least a contender.
Right. . . that's why half of my team uses MS Office while others use Open Office and we share documents between each other with no problems. If there were a better alternative to MS Office I'd consider using it, but as of yet I haven't found anything that's nearly as good.
Our government tried to switch, the people wouldn't.
No one said Force them to get shots, just don't let them bring their non vaccinated selves to public school.
Your completely right.
There are many examples in the surrounding comments. The highlights among them are.
Immunizations are not 100% effective
Babies at home too young to be vaccinated
Elderly at home that are more susceptible
People on immunosuppressants
On top of all that, there is no good reason to not immunize children. There was one study that showed a link between autism and vaccines and it was later found out that the study actually showed no link but the numbers were falsified to satisfy an agenda. Vaccines are very safe and effective at preventing disease. The rest of us shouldn't be put at extra risk because of stupid people.
Meaning, if you don't want to vaccinate your kids, that's your right, but you shouldn't be allowed to send them to school and spread the disease to other people. A few other posts near by gave examples.
Your freedom to get diseased ends at places where you are likely to spread it to others. Or, at least it should.
Just vaccinate your kids already. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo&feature=related/
I am an American, and I fully agree with this comment. And I don't know when this changed. When I went to school it was the same thing. The school wouldn't let me in if I didn't have all my vaccines, as it should be. As the old saying goes, "Your freedom to swing your arm ends at my nose." The same should apply here. You can't use your freedom to get me sick.
If you want to Target XBox Live as a platform from an indie perspective. C# with XNA is really your only option. On the plus side, it's very user friendly and easy to learn. There is also tons of free documentation online for it, with tutorials for just about anything you could want to do. Start at http://create.msdn.com/
By that logic, MS Paint should be the most used photo editor, and notepad should be the de facto text editor.
I love that.
Sums it up I think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo
I think the big thing we need to do is figure out WHY the prices don't come down from domestic drilling. I would bet it doesn't have nearly as much to do with the cost of drilling, and way more to do with the fact that people on Wall Street decide what a barrel of oil is worth, it doesn't matter where it comes from.
A legitimate question. With a reasonable answer. While I live really close to this park, there are several in the area. As a playground there are other parks in the area that my kids prefer and so we go there more often. It's been maybe 2 years since we have been to that park. My oldest is now almost 9, so I'm sure he remembers going there, but I don't know if he really remembers the tree. My daughter just turned 5. I'm sure she doesn't remember going there.
While I agree it maybe doesn't belong on Slashdot, I actually live about 5 minutes from the park where this tree was and would take my kids there to see this tree. Pretty magnificent. So, I at least find it cool to see it on /. even if it doesn't "really" belong here. Also, disappointed to see it go. I don't know if my kids were old enough to really remember seeing it from the last time we went there. I had been meaning to get back there, but, you know, who expect a 3500 year old tree to be suddenly gone. Also, they now suspect arson and not natural causes as originally thought.
I agree Google is responsible for their employees and will have to pay whatever consequences comes with that. I am just saying that "I" don't think this action makes Google as a whole evil. They may do some evil things, and if this is actually a Google sanctioned thing then yes this is evil. But I have worked in remote offices for companies and we often did things that weren't corporate policy and that's what I see happening here.
I don't think anyone is saying that Google shouldn't be held responsible. Just that it's probably not Google trying to be evil, but some random employee breaking the law. If corporate deals with it accordingly I don't see how you can condemn the company as a whole for it. If the dude making your burger at the local burger hut spits on your burger does that make the whole burger hut corporation an evil business for having their employees spit in burgers? No, it makes the guy a jerk who doesn't follow corporate policy.
As far as coding resources, it doesn't have any in and of itself. All the GlobalGameJam is, is an event for people interested in game design to get together and build a game. What they do end up providing just by it's nature is programmers, artists, designers, sound engineers, and anyone else with a skill that can help in making games (and people without relevant skills that are just interested in games). Also, most of the games that come out of a thing like this are very small scale simple games. No real engine unless you decide to use something like Unity to make it. If it's something you are interested in, just sign up on the site (I think registration opens in November), list any skills you have, show up and have fun. As far as reference to a good simple graphics package, check out http://www.unity3d.com/ and http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/tutorial/2dgame/getting_started/ Both are quite easy to use and have tons of great documentation and tutorials.
I don't know about Ludum Dare, but at the GGJ (at least the site that I go to.) The games are fully original creations, Not some preexisting game that has been adapted to the key words. Sure someone might reuse a physics library that they have written before, or some other module. But that happens in any development. But the games are definitely not premade. A large part of this is due to the fact that most of the team members don't even know each other before the event.
Go to http://globalgamejam.org/ it is the same thing, (a 48 hour design and build a game session) but it is organized globally. I have done it twice now and it is so much fun. You don't need any real experience in game development, but any helps. But, even if you don't know anything about coding, art, music, or anything like that, you can still help out by being a tester, or a gopher. It's free, and very fun. The one coming up is January 27-29 and chances are, there is a site near you. If there isn't, you can start one. All you need to know is on the web site I linked. Have fun, and game on.
http://www.lytro.com/picture_gallery
What he said.
If you have any interest in games then I would suggest Full Sail University in Orlando, FL. If you can afford it without working a job at the same time. The reason is, it is a 40Hr per week school. The Bachelor degree takes 21 months and it is almost exclusively CS. There are a couple of English type classes but they relate directly back to game design and development. And, because it is an accelerated program they are only one month long. So, in my opinion, this is the fastest way to a CS degree. http://www.fullsail.edu/degrees/game-development-bachelors Here is a link to the program.
Why is this a big deal?
I too miss the old story icons. . .