I would figure that hyphenated city names come about because of nearby locations growing so large that they eventually merge. Tampa-St. Pete's is probably close to that in the US. Other cases, where there was no consensus on the naming or where one was significantly dominant, you find that you use the name of the dominant one or another term altogether (many people say LA when they mean LA and the surrounding area).
I think the reference is to the RULES of the language are hardest to learn (since they don't always apply in English).
The lexicon in each language is just as complex. Every language needs to be able to describe a ball, a house, a car, etc. So from that perspective, you are correct. But when the grammer of the language is full of rules and exceptions and exceptions to the exceptions, it is more difficult than a language that is more straight forward with rules (rule, that's it, no exceptions).
I've always preferred objective subjects over subjective subjects. It's right or it's wrong. I did poorly when English (grammer) turned into English (regurgitate the professors interpretation of the meaning of some passage). I can see how, if you are unfamiliar with the rules, you would find English difficult to master, especially when those rules differ from the first set you learn for the same reason that I preferred objective classes.....right or wrong is very apparent.
For the life of me, "the wagon red" makes a lot less sense than "the red wagon", but I can see how learning one first would make the other seem odd.
Any geek worth his cred should know a good bit about the history and evolution of language. Tolkein was very into it and it was thrust upon us.......and I for one thank him for it (and the work it led to).
"Could have" is slurred to be/kuld uv/ and we pronounce the word "of" as/uv/ in the south, so when one goes to write "could have" based on screwed up phonetics, you get "could of"......
But it's really a problem of learning how to speak before learning to write. My middle kid (step-daughter, so I blame her bad genes on her real dad) can't spell very well and it's because she doesn't pronounce things correctly. Personally, I think she has a very mild impediment that prevents her from properly hearing the sounds.....she tests fine in hearing tests, but when she say/eckleest/ to mean "at least" even up through 6th grade (and after repeated correction), I have to conclude there is a problem there somewhere.
If you take a standard LCD screen and move all of the supporting circuitry into a base unit, how thin is the screen? I think the who 3mm thing is a gimick......that base unit looks pretty thick comparatively.
I found one in a desk drawer growing up (it was my dad's). Circular model of some sort with an instruction booklet for doing all kinds of calculations......I could actually work it back then, but I'm waaaaay out of practice.
Actually, the connections come in when you start looking at feeding operating data into the business processes.....or when you want to monitor the state of the machine to automatically trigger preventative maintenance.....or automated control.
While the generators, etc. would blow up the same, what if say the nuclear control rod was also controlled in a very similar manner.....probably likely since people like to reuse components to reduce cost and all.....now say I remotely control that little rod to be moved in that very special way where, say, some sort of nuclear meltdown happens.....
That's the concern with nuclear.....not the whole generator thing, but the extrapolation into what ELSE could be done remotely using similar ideas.
Anyone wonder why they've been researching Ethernet over Powerlines? They already have the cables deployed all over the place, they just need to get the data flowing along with all of the other electrons.
The difference in calculation is the difference between indexes in C and Pascal. I said "in year 1 it was 100 and year 2 it was 102.5" which means that in year 7, it would have inflated by 18.87% (Pascal indexing - specifically called out in my English). In your case, you used the C style indexing where 100 units was year 0 and thus, the extra year of inflation.
But, yeah, the 50,000ft level is basically inflation sucks.
2 to 3% PER YEAR. We'll use 2.5 since it's the middle.
Something that costs 100 units of money in year 1 will go to 102.5. 102.5 to 105.06 in year 3. etc. So, in year 7, that 100 unit item now costs 118.87 units. Or an increase of 18.87% over 7 years......12.62% for a flat 2%. 19.41% for a flat 3%. 22% wasn't too far off......
I'd probably go with the cell connection on an unlimited data connect plan. Or, build a can-tanna and point it at an access point down the hill.....even if it's from a friend. Just make sure you get a tall enough mast to clear the trees.
I hate to tell you, but the IT world I've lived in for the past 13 years is a lot more accepting of women than any of the jobs my wife has had in that same time frame. Granted, most of the women in IT fall into one of three roles (Requirements Analyst, Testing, or Project Management), they are accepted. My wife on the otherhand has worked at office jobs for construction companies, a certain brown delivery company, and others. She finds it hard for them to trust her with more responsibility although she is much more capable than any of the men in charge (and this is not a biased opinion).
Sure, geeks have a naturally more male-friendly culture, but I don't think we exclude women. I think that fewer women find the things we like to suit them. There's nothing frilly about a frag-fest or all-night role-playing. When a woman does find her way into our world, we tend to treat them as goddesses......not ostracize her.
Yes. I still play each of the following games on a semi-regular basis (and still enjoy them): Civilization, NetHack (ray-trace that, suckers!), Master of Magic (bugs and all), and Theif. I would also play Pirates! (the original), but my EGA/Tandy disk won't boot in my floppyless computer...and I wasn't impressed enough with the new one and all that dancing. All classics. All still great games for their gameplay alone.
1. objects in the scene 2. resolution of the viewport (I know that back in the day, POV-RAY was a whole lot faster on the same scene at lower resolutions.) 3. lights in the scene 4. "materials" of the surfaces / reflectivity of the scene
We went the monitor route. We installed stealth software that e-mails logs. They don't have admin access on their machines. The machines are in public areas. Router is secured for wireless (and they don't know the key).
When we confronted the culprit the one time they tried it, they pretty much gave up. They can't use another OS or anything without losing Internet access.
But for the original post, something else that can be considered is set up your own proxy server. Configure it to be the only one with Internet access. If they want to access it, they go through the proxy. The proxy does two things: logs all accesses and retains all images/videos for review. You can add any blacklist / whitelist approach you want.
I think someone is secretly going there and shooting it with a high powered laser and burning some of it away. It's probably those pesky sharks from the aquarium.
Here in Austin, the local community college has a program that is growing. They have buy-in (and at some level participation) from many of the local houses. The classes are taught by people who's day job is game development. The instructors have such a passion for what they do that they want to share that passion. I think they have taken the right approach to building a program.
Some of the names on the advisory board are names that anyone in the industry would know. And many of them are available to the students. The instructors include some pretty heavy names, too. Right now, it is just a ceritificate program, but they are working on getting it accredited. Even still, I feel like I get more out of that program than I would from a Full Sail or a Digipen (granted, I already have a 4-year CS degree and 13 years experience in the business apps arena).
But the point, is that, not all programs are "pooh-poohed" by those in the industry.....
I'll say that I agree with the stance of the article. Get a real degree and supplement it with game school knowledge. Which order really depends on your situation. If you can afford it, get the real degree first. Then, work your way through game school (usually shorter duration than a 4 year degree). If you can't get the game diploma and work your way through real school (probably in QA or level scripting or some other entry level position).
For game design, look for degree areas that compliment the types of games you want to make. History for those war based games. Sociology for those MMOs and Sim type events. Economics if you want to design a nice stock trading game. Whatever makes sense. Then, when you go to design the games you want, you'll have a firm grasp of how it should work.
For programming, look to computer science or MIS. CS would be the better choice of the two, but if you want to work in the MMO arena, having database skills that you get from an MIS degree would be helpful.....but if you want to do the 3D engine work, you gotta go CS.
For art, well, obviously, an art based degree.
If you want to be a producer, MIS again and some business focused project management.
But I would agree with his comment that something like an old Pentax K-1000 would be the perfect camera for astronomy. They are plentiful, cheap, and extremely manual. They take a beating and keep on working (for the most part). As long as you have a remote shutter button extension, you can take flawless pictures without worrying about the battery running out on those long exposures. And I'm sure there are plenty of mounts to attach it to almost any telescope.
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I would figure that hyphenated city names come about because of nearby locations growing so large that they eventually merge. Tampa-St. Pete's is probably close to that in the US. Other cases, where there was no consensus on the naming or where one was significantly dominant, you find that you use the name of the dominant one or another term altogether (many people say LA when they mean LA and the surrounding area).
Layne
I think the reference is to the RULES of the language are hardest to learn (since they don't always apply in English).
The lexicon in each language is just as complex. Every language needs to be able to describe a ball, a house, a car, etc. So from that perspective, you are correct. But when the grammer of the language is full of rules and exceptions and exceptions to the exceptions, it is more difficult than a language that is more straight forward with rules (rule, that's it, no exceptions).
I've always preferred objective subjects over subjective subjects. It's right or it's wrong. I did poorly when English (grammer) turned into English (regurgitate the professors interpretation of the meaning of some passage). I can see how, if you are unfamiliar with the rules, you would find English difficult to master, especially when those rules differ from the first set you learn for the same reason that I preferred objective classes.....right or wrong is very apparent.
For the life of me, "the wagon red" makes a lot less sense than "the red wagon", but I can see how learning one first would make the other seem odd.
Layne
Any geek worth his cred should know a good bit about the history and evolution of language. Tolkein was very into it and it was thrust upon us.......and I for one thank him for it (and the work it led to).
Layne
"Could have" is slurred to be /kuld uv/ and we pronounce the word "of" as /uv/ in the south, so when one goes to write "could have" based on screwed up phonetics, you get "could of"......
/eckleest/ to mean "at least" even up through 6th grade (and after repeated correction), I have to conclude there is a problem there somewhere.
But it's really a problem of learning how to speak before learning to write. My middle kid (step-daughter, so I blame her bad genes on her real dad) can't spell very well and it's because she doesn't pronounce things correctly. Personally, I think she has a very mild impediment that prevents her from properly hearing the sounds.....she tests fine in hearing tests, but when she say
Layne
If you take a standard LCD screen and move all of the supporting circuitry into a base unit, how thin is the screen? I think the who 3mm thing is a gimick......that base unit looks pretty thick comparatively.
Layne
I found one in a desk drawer growing up (it was my dad's). Circular model of some sort with an instruction booklet for doing all kinds of calculations......I could actually work it back then, but I'm waaaaay out of practice.
Layne
Actually, the connections come in when you start looking at feeding operating data into the business processes.....or when you want to monitor the state of the machine to automatically trigger preventative maintenance.....or automated control.
Layne
While the generators, etc. would blow up the same, what if say the nuclear control rod was also controlled in a very similar manner.....probably likely since people like to reuse components to reduce cost and all.....now say I remotely control that little rod to be moved in that very special way where, say, some sort of nuclear meltdown happens.....
That's the concern with nuclear.....not the whole generator thing, but the extrapolation into what ELSE could be done remotely using similar ideas.
Layne
Anyone wonder why they've been researching Ethernet over Powerlines? They already have the cables deployed all over the place, they just need to get the data flowing along with all of the other electrons.
Layne
Star Fox nerds?
Layne
And the one that is related to the topic: Companies give raises based on inflation rates and call it a COL increase.
Layne
The difference in calculation is the difference between indexes in C and Pascal. I said "in year 1 it was 100 and year 2 it was 102.5" which means that in year 7, it would have inflated by 18.87% (Pascal indexing - specifically called out in my English). In your case, you used the C style indexing where 100 units was year 0 and thus, the extra year of inflation.
But, yeah, the 50,000ft level is basically inflation sucks.
Layne
2 to 3% PER YEAR. We'll use 2.5 since it's the middle.
Something that costs 100 units of money in year 1 will go to 102.5. 102.5 to 105.06 in year 3. etc. So, in year 7, that 100 unit item now costs 118.87 units. Or an increase of 18.87% over 7 years......12.62% for a flat 2%. 19.41% for a flat 3%. 22% wasn't too far off......
Layne
Dude, the GP was referring to the zero-day referred to the other day.....it was +1 Funny.
Layne
I'd probably go with the cell connection on an unlimited data connect plan. Or, build a can-tanna and point it at an access point down the hill.....even if it's from a friend. Just make sure you get a tall enough mast to clear the trees.
Layne
I hate to tell you, but the IT world I've lived in for the past 13 years is a lot more accepting of women than any of the jobs my wife has had in that same time frame. Granted, most of the women in IT fall into one of three roles (Requirements Analyst, Testing, or Project Management), they are accepted. My wife on the otherhand has worked at office jobs for construction companies, a certain brown delivery company, and others. She finds it hard for them to trust her with more responsibility although she is much more capable than any of the men in charge (and this is not a biased opinion).
Sure, geeks have a naturally more male-friendly culture, but I don't think we exclude women. I think that fewer women find the things we like to suit them. There's nothing frilly about a frag-fest or all-night role-playing. When a woman does find her way into our world, we tend to treat them as goddesses......not ostracize her.
Layne
Yes. I still play each of the following games on a semi-regular basis (and still enjoy them): Civilization, NetHack (ray-trace that, suckers!), Master of Magic (bugs and all), and Theif. I would also play Pirates! (the original), but my EGA/Tandy disk won't boot in my floppyless computer...and I wasn't impressed enough with the new one and all that dancing. All classics. All still great games for their gameplay alone.
Layne
I'm guessing it's one or more of the following:
1. objects in the scene
2. resolution of the viewport (I know that back in the day, POV-RAY was a whole lot faster on the same scene at lower resolutions.)
3. lights in the scene
4. "materials" of the surfaces / reflectivity of the scene
Others?
Layne
3 kids - 16, 13, 9
We went the monitor route. We installed stealth software that e-mails logs. They don't have admin access on their machines. The machines are in public areas. Router is secured for wireless (and they don't know the key).
When we confronted the culprit the one time they tried it, they pretty much gave up. They can't use another OS or anything without losing Internet access.
But for the original post, something else that can be considered is set up your own proxy server. Configure it to be the only one with Internet access. If they want to access it, they go through the proxy. The proxy does two things: logs all accesses and retains all images/videos for review. You can add any blacklist / whitelist approach you want.
Layne
Dude, I've had DDR for my Xbox for years (daughters).....and it was on the PS2, as well. Who needs to go out to look spastic?
Layne
I think someone is secretly going there and shooting it with a high powered laser and burning some of it away. It's probably those pesky sharks from the aquarium.
Layne
Layne
Here in Austin, the local community college has a program that is growing. They have buy-in (and at some level participation) from many of the local houses. The classes are taught by people who's day job is game development. The instructors have such a passion for what they do that they want to share that passion. I think they have taken the right approach to building a program.
Some of the names on the advisory board are names that anyone in the industry would know. And many of them are available to the students. The instructors include some pretty heavy names, too. Right now, it is just a ceritificate program, but they are working on getting it accredited. Even still, I feel like I get more out of that program than I would from a Full Sail or a Digipen (granted, I already have a 4-year CS degree and 13 years experience in the business apps arena).
But the point, is that, not all programs are "pooh-poohed" by those in the industry.....
Link to the program web site: http://www.austincc.edu/techcert/Video_Games.html
Layne
I'll say that I agree with the stance of the article. Get a real degree and supplement it with game school knowledge. Which order really depends on your situation. If you can afford it, get the real degree first. Then, work your way through game school (usually shorter duration than a 4 year degree). If you can't get the game diploma and work your way through real school (probably in QA or level scripting or some other entry level position).
For game design, look for degree areas that compliment the types of games you want to make. History for those war based games. Sociology for those MMOs and Sim type events. Economics if you want to design a nice stock trading game. Whatever makes sense. Then, when you go to design the games you want, you'll have a firm grasp of how it should work.
For programming, look to computer science or MIS. CS would be the better choice of the two, but if you want to work in the MMO arena, having database skills that you get from an MIS degree would be helpful.....but if you want to do the 3D engine work, you gotta go CS.
For art, well, obviously, an art based degree.
If you want to be a producer, MIS again and some business focused project management.
Layne
But I would agree with his comment that something like an old Pentax K-1000 would be the perfect camera for astronomy. They are plentiful, cheap, and extremely manual. They take a beating and keep on working (for the most part). As long as you have a remote shutter button extension, you can take flawless pictures without worrying about the battery running out on those long exposures. And I'm sure there are plenty of mounts to attach it to almost any telescope.
Layne