Fols simply don't believe they're driving carlessly
On the other hand, if more folks were diving carlessly, the roads would be a whole lot less dangerous
MIT and Stanford rejected me, and CMU waitlisted me with a 1590 (out of 1600) SAT and reasonably respectable grades (just below top 10% in my high school). My roommate was valedictorian of his high school and was also rejected by MIT. I still ended up at a highly ranked school, but not the very top. Unfortunately for us extremely good test takers, the best schools want, and can get, everything. That said, it sounds like you might have close to everything, so don't let me scare you off.
I can't exactly picture joining a service entitled "Wallop", no matter how many friends I have on there...it sounds pretty painful! "Hey Joe! I just walloped you!" "Ow! Screw you!"
FWIW, my girlfriend works at GameStop, and at her store (nowhere near yours), they were only given as many copies as were preordered, so if they sold a copy to somebody who hadn't preordered, somebody who did wouldn't get their copy. In a case like that, it's the manufacturer's fault, not some evil GameStop policy.
Assuming you're a Windows user, Pandora actually caches mp3s to your drive. they're at C:\Documents and Settings\Your_username\Local Settings\Temp\plugtmp-(various numbers). If you add.mp3 to the end of the filenames, they'll play just fine. Unfortunately, they're not named, so it's up to you to sort them out. You don't have to capture them though...
I mostly have to agree with this, and I'm hearing lots of good music there, but I do have one precaution -- it's better to have several stations if you're into several kinds of music. It's not especially good at mixing genres (somehow heavy metal+punk=emo at pandora...yeggh).
It is really cool that they save your profile so that you can stream mostly good music anywhere.
When I run IE, the icon in the top left is an arrow pointing left...does that mean I'm ok and Paypal really does need me to confirm my account details several times a day?
I was in a somewhat similar situation to yours a year ago. What I ended up doing was putting my php skills to use in a startup for considerably less money than an adult php/mysql programmer, but more than most college kids, and with a much better job/work environment. If you only have a year of experience in C++, you probably can't really use that for much, but web programming generally allows for simpler applications.
As other people in this thread have said, it's also worthwhile to have outside projects. If you can't come up with anything, then create a portfolio site that shows up just what you can do so you can point people to it. Aside from that, your University is a great resource for finding jobs. Talk to other professors and other students. Right now, I'm helping my boss find a student for a job. Also, your department probably has a career center. Often they get emails from companies and recruiters looking for student workers and interns. Good luck.
I can't find the website for it right now, but at the University of Southern California, one lab has created a driving game where the speed of your driving and other variables control the volume, speed, and other properties of the music you're "playing." The track you drive on is created such that, for instance, turns appear where the music should slow down. It's a way to give performers a sense of which passages could be performed in a certain way.
If the dependencies aren't too heavy, Azureus can be gotten as a binary. Unfortunately, my Gentoo box isn't booted right now, so I don't have the exact name, but you should be able to find the package without much trouble. Otherwise, thanks for sharing your bandwidth with Slashdot.
I am currently in a game development class taught by an EA lead developer, and one of the things he has taken pains to show us is ways to handle multiplatform programming without hugely increasing the time and effort spent making the game multiplatform. While, of course, there are certain hurdles to multiplatform development, it's not clear that in order to manage it, the companies need to ignore the advantages of the various platforms.
Right to Win
Not sure on this one, unless he means arcade-style games that don't have an end. Perhaps he's referring to games which have a bug that prevents finishing, none of which I've had the misfortune to encounter yet.
I actually have played such a game that was reasonably recent, called Sanity: Aiken's Artifact. Rather than use pre-rendered cinematics, all interactions were done in-engine. It was probably a 15 or 20 hour game that I got through and beat the final boss. At this point, there was to be a final interaction, which would presumably show everything going right and so on, except for the bug that in this final interaction that hero was a touch too close to a cliff and would die during the conversation, thus making it so nobody could see the ending. Arrrrghhh!
For those of us young enough to be really confused by that conversation, some extensive googlage (define: abends didn't work) yielded this definition from Novell:
"Abnormal + End = AbEnd NT server abends are usually called General Protection Faults (GPF) or Blue Screen of Death"
I thought this was a little well written to have been posted that quickly. This is originally from http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.7.8.10 5659.2501.html and written in 2001. I would hope that this posted does not repeat this stunt in the future, regardless of the topic or their opinions.
That was only true for me as far as official redhat packages went. As soon as I started looking for packages that weren't from Redhat (ie XMMS that plays mp3s, proprietary ati drivers), I was at the mercy of the various rpm repositories and my machine got ugly pretty quickly. Certainly this has gotten much better with Fedora and yum/apt-get, but, as I said, it's not just about having the same packages if you don't have a good idea of where your problem is or some reasonable steps to take in order to solve it.
As an aside, the best computer support I've ever had for any problem has come from the gentoo forums. I think there's an atmosphere that everyone is learning and so should be helping each other along.
I'd shift those around a bit. The only real liability I've found is the compile time (which can be pretty drastically reduced with the use of some tools. Gentoo has tutorials). I would absolutely move learning and tweaking into the power/cusomizability category (though I haven't found much of a speed improvement over pre-compiled software in most cases, so that probably isn't the best reason to try gentoo). I started out with redhat 9, and although it did what I wanted for the most part, when I had a problem, it was usually pretty hard to fix since I didn't really know what was going on. Now that I've done a couple gentoo installs, though only stage 3, I must admit, I know much better what causes certain problems. In addition, I love being always up-to-date and not having to worry about cruft.
I'm a computer science student, and love learning all I can about computers, so maybe some of those are not advantages for you. However, if you're into experimentation and the latest and greatest, gentoo is a great way to play with it all.
Use your head. Since each tag holds a whole 1Kb, you only need 1024 tags for each minute of music. That's a mere 716800 tags for a full cd. Since you'd be buying in bulk, you can replace those flimsy, akward cds for just $7168.00 apiece! I don't know about you, but I'm going right now!
This isn't actually even the first game design program at USC. I am currently in the track for a video game programming minor from the information technology program, which also offers a minor in video game production and design. The cinema school also runs an interactive technology minor. The head of the Information Technology Program, who is also one of my professors has talked about possibilities in creating a Masters in video game design. The news in this article seems to be just the chair that was endowed.
For better information, see USC Information Technology Program.
They are, for a web browser. In the first place, there are preview/beta releases along the way, or for the brave, there are cvs builds. In addition, a web browser, as any developer or gentoo user will be happy to tell you, is a huge undertaking. If you consider that the release cycle of Internet Explorer typically corresponds to major Windows revisions, Firefox is doing about as well as can be expected. Finally, if you're impatient for new functionality or fixes, there's the excellent extensions community for Firefox that releases on its own schedule.
Along with the next x86 drivers on the site is a shiny new set of x86_64 linux drivers. I haven't heard anything about how happy people are with them, but at least they're doing something (yeah, I know you're looking for ppc et al, but 64 bit is a start)
You said:
And because "money is the root of all evil" we therefore can state:
Money = (Evil)1/2
And Since
(Money)2 = Women
Then (Money)2 = Evil
And we are forced to conclude by substituting "women" for "(money)2" from above that:
Women = Evil
But you're skipping a step that changes the solution....
Money = Evil^(1/2)
then
Money^2 = (Evil^1/2)^2
Women = Money^2
Women = (Evil^1/2)^2
so....
Women = +/- Evil
The practical applications? Confusion, angst, and our eternal love/hate relationship with that species.
Slashdot Mirror
Just found the whole series streaming on Netflix.
On the other hand, if more folks were diving carlessly, the roads would be a whole lot less dangerous
MIT and Stanford rejected me, and CMU waitlisted me with a 1590 (out of 1600) SAT and reasonably respectable grades (just below top 10% in my high school). My roommate was valedictorian of his high school and was also rejected by MIT. I still ended up at a highly ranked school, but not the very top. Unfortunately for us extremely good test takers, the best schools want, and can get, everything. That said, it sounds like you might have close to everything, so don't let me scare you off.
I can't exactly picture joining a service entitled "Wallop", no matter how many friends I have on there...it sounds pretty painful!
"Hey Joe! I just walloped you!"
"Ow! Screw you!"
FWIW, my girlfriend works at GameStop, and at her store (nowhere near yours), they were only given as many copies as were preordered, so if they sold a copy to somebody who hadn't preordered, somebody who did wouldn't get their copy. In a case like that, it's the manufacturer's fault, not some evil GameStop policy.
Assuming you're a Windows user, Pandora actually caches mp3s to your drive. they're at C:\Documents and Settings\Your_username\Local Settings\Temp\plugtmp-(various numbers). If you add .mp3 to the end of the filenames, they'll play just fine. Unfortunately, they're not named, so it's up to you to sort them out. You don't have to capture them though...
I mostly have to agree with this, and I'm hearing lots of good music there, but I do have one precaution -- it's better to have several stations if you're into several kinds of music. It's not especially good at mixing genres (somehow heavy metal+punk=emo at pandora...yeggh). It is really cool that they save your profile so that you can stream mostly good music anywhere.
Out of "intellectual curiosity," any chance of giving out the band name/url? That does sound kinda cool...
When I run IE, the icon in the top left is an arrow pointing left...does that mean I'm ok and Paypal really does need me to confirm my account details several times a day?
I was in a somewhat similar situation to yours a year ago. What I ended up doing was putting my php skills to use in a startup for considerably less money than an adult php/mysql programmer, but more than most college kids, and with a much better job/work environment. If you only have a year of experience in C++, you probably can't really use that for much, but web programming generally allows for simpler applications.
As other people in this thread have said, it's also worthwhile to have outside projects. If you can't come up with anything, then create a portfolio site that shows up just what you can do so you can point people to it. Aside from that, your University is a great resource for finding jobs. Talk to other professors and other students. Right now, I'm helping my boss find a student for a job. Also, your department probably has a career center. Often they get emails from companies and recruiters looking for student workers and interns. Good luck.
I can't find the website for it right now, but at the University of Southern California, one lab has created a driving game where the speed of your driving and other variables control the volume, speed, and other properties of the music you're "playing." The track you drive on is created such that, for instance, turns appear where the music should slow down. It's a way to give performers a sense of which passages could be performed in a certain way.
If the dependencies aren't too heavy, Azureus can be gotten as a binary. Unfortunately, my Gentoo box isn't booted right now, so I don't have the exact name, but you should be able to find the package without much trouble. Otherwise, thanks for sharing your bandwidth with Slashdot.
At that time, oil was going for $4.84 a megabyte.
I am currently in a game development class taught by an EA lead developer, and one of the things he has taken pains to show us is ways to handle multiplatform programming without hugely increasing the time and effort spent making the game multiplatform. While, of course, there are certain hurdles to multiplatform development, it's not clear that in order to manage it, the companies need to ignore the advantages of the various platforms.
Right to Win Not sure on this one, unless he means arcade-style games that don't have an end. Perhaps he's referring to games which have a bug that prevents finishing, none of which I've had the misfortune to encounter yet.
I actually have played such a game that was reasonably recent, called Sanity: Aiken's Artifact. Rather than use pre-rendered cinematics, all interactions were done in-engine. It was probably a 15 or 20 hour game that I got through and beat the final boss. At this point, there was to be a final interaction, which would presumably show everything going right and so on, except for the bug that in this final interaction that hero was a touch too close to a cliff and would die during the conversation, thus making it so nobody could see the ending. Arrrrghhh!
For those of us young enough to be really confused by that conversation, some extensive googlage (define: abends didn't work) yielded this definition from Novell:
"Abnormal + End = AbEnd
NT server abends are usually called General Protection Faults (GPF) or Blue Screen of Death"
I thought this was a little well written to have been posted that quickly. This is originally from http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.7.8.10 5659.2501.html and written in 2001. I would hope that this posted does not repeat this stunt in the future, regardless of the topic or their opinions.
That was only true for me as far as official redhat packages went. As soon as I started looking for packages that weren't from Redhat (ie XMMS that plays mp3s, proprietary ati drivers), I was at the mercy of the various rpm repositories and my machine got ugly pretty quickly. Certainly this has gotten much better with Fedora and yum/apt-get, but, as I said, it's not just about having the same packages if you don't have a good idea of where your problem is or some reasonable steps to take in order to solve it.
As an aside, the best computer support I've ever had for any problem has come from the gentoo forums. I think there's an atmosphere that everyone is learning and so should be helping each other along.
I'd shift those around a bit. The only real liability I've found is the compile time (which can be pretty drastically reduced with the use of some tools. Gentoo has tutorials). I would absolutely move learning and tweaking into the power/cusomizability category (though I haven't found much of a speed improvement over pre-compiled software in most cases, so that probably isn't the best reason to try gentoo). I started out with redhat 9, and although it did what I wanted for the most part, when I had a problem, it was usually pretty hard to fix since I didn't really know what was going on. Now that I've done a couple gentoo installs, though only stage 3, I must admit, I know much better what causes certain problems. In addition, I love being always up-to-date and not having to worry about cruft.
I'm a computer science student, and love learning all I can about computers, so maybe some of those are not advantages for you. However, if you're into experimentation and the latest and greatest, gentoo is a great way to play with it all.
Use your head. Since each tag holds a whole 1Kb, you only need 1024 tags for each minute of music. That's a mere 716800 tags for a full cd. Since you'd be buying in bulk, you can replace those flimsy, akward cds for just $7168.00 apiece! I don't know about you, but I'm going right now!
This isn't actually even the first game design program at USC. I am currently in the track for a video game programming minor from the information technology program, which also offers a minor in video game production and design. The cinema school also runs an interactive technology minor. The head of the Information Technology Program, who is also one of my professors has talked about possibilities in creating a Masters in video game design. The news in this article seems to be just the chair that was endowed. For better information, see USC Information Technology Program.
They are, for a web browser. In the first place, there are preview/beta releases along the way, or for the brave, there are cvs builds. In addition, a web browser, as any developer or gentoo user will be happy to tell you, is a huge undertaking. If you consider that the release cycle of Internet Explorer typically corresponds to major Windows revisions, Firefox is doing about as well as can be expected. Finally, if you're impatient for new functionality or fixes, there's the excellent extensions community for Firefox that releases on its own schedule.
Along with the next x86 drivers on the site is a shiny new set of x86_64 linux drivers. I haven't heard anything about how happy people are with them, but at least they're doing something (yeah, I know you're looking for ppc et al, but 64 bit is a start)
Money = (Evil)1/2
And Since
(Money)2 = Women
Then (Money)2 = Evil
And we are forced to conclude by substituting "women" for "(money)2" from above that:
Women = Evil
But you're skipping a step that changes the solution....
Money = Evil^(1/2)
then
Money^2 = (Evil^1/2)^2
Women = Money^2
Women = (Evil^1/2)^2
so....
Women = +/- Evil
The practical applications? Confusion, angst, and our eternal love/hate relationship with that species.
Ah, another misguided Vepublican. When will you learn that the VOP is only helping out big business?
Don't you mean the VOIP?
Google, is that you?