First I would learn how to solve the problem on paper. Then I would learn how to solve the problem given a generic set of input. Then I would write a program to do it on the calculator.
Thus at 14, I learned that school was not necessarily about learning.
Seems like you did a lot of learning to me...
"A lot of times, I'll drive for like 10 miles with the emergency brake. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake."
-Mitch Hedberg
I don't think his whining is unethical at all... Win RT market penetration is already facing an uphill battle and, without developer support, it is inevitably going to fail. MS seems to have forgotten this (once again) and Rubicon is giving them the verbal kick in the pants they need to get their act together. It might sound like whining, but MS has so far given Win RT developers absolutely pathetic support.
We allow commercial exploitation of the Earth and we live here...
A single poor example is not indicative of the technology as a whole. Look at voice recognition on current Android or iPhones... compare that with Dragon Naturally Speaking 15 years ago and it's stunning how far the tech has progressed.
Because for the last 20 years we've seen pretty amazing progress with speech recognition and interpretation technologies and there's no reason to think the next 20 years will be any different?
So English speakers should learn to speak another language so that they can learn what it's like to learn to speak another language... that's sound logic if I've ever heard it.
I'm just curious as to which of his many brilliant and famous feats of computer engineering or programming you are referring to as his "one item"?
Why are you replying to your own post with a counter argument? Whoops... I think you forgot to log in with your alt!
or, for that matter, the skulls in my safety deposit box...
...Plus, I would have to buy an additional controller for $50. So, console game = $59 + $50. PC game = $29.
You only purchase an additional controller once, so including it in the cost of the console version while not including it in the cost of the PC version is nonsense. Also, Lego Pirates is $20 on all 3 consoles and $30 on the PC http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Pirates-Caribbean-Pc/dp/B002I0JJMK.
PC games get updates and bugs get fixed. My daughter and I recently played Lego Pirates of the Caribbean on Wii and it was practically unsolvable with 2 player co-op. It kept locking up with no way to update it or fix it. I wish I had bought the PC version.
The Xbox and PS often get bugfixes as well. For most multiplayer PC games, if you want to play with your daughter, you'll need to buy a second PC (and 2 copies of each game as well). Kinda makes that $59 you spent on a second controller look like chicken scratch...
- Games last longer: This might sound a bit odd, but I love to keep my games forever, and so I keep the consoles forever as well. I still have my Atari 2600, repaired the joystick a 100+ times, but enough OT. The games last longer because the games ages with the consoles. When you purchase NEW PC's or upgrade, you need endless patches and driver updates - buzz killington right there!
it's not really fair to keep the old console hardware around and say that works, but not also keep the old computer around for those old games.
But that's the reality of the situation... far more people keep their old consoles to play old games than keep old computers to run old games.
Slashdot agrees with you? Was there a vote I wasn't aware of?
To try to directly try to compare the release of a MS service pack, which is nearly always little more than a conglomeration of bug, vulnerability, and driver updates and patches, to the periodic updates Apple releases for each version of OS X is being disingenuous. I'm frankly surprised that you even attempted it...
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
