Posts by AceRimmer
328 posts • joined Monday 15th June 2009 07:57 GMT
Re: Online advertising?
Think about it
Of all the advertising methods, online advertising is the easiest to prove the effectiveness of. The advert is the door into the website and if you can track how the customer entered then you can track which adverts are performing.
If online advertising didn't work then most companies would stop spending on it.
Re: @deshepherd
The difference was the sense of danger
If you know a track and car already then the video game will boost your understanding of the track and reinforce prior learning
Re: @jake
Track time is not just expensive it is also physically exhausting. F1 cars especially have to be driven at speed to remain safe. Of course there is nothing to stop the drivers learning the circuit in a different car but it will still be expensive, exhausting, disruptive and less safe than a simulation.
Racing circuits in video game are very accurate compared to real life and the drivers can use the games for the monotonous lap churning required to imprint a track on their brain.
Also, some of the circuits are only open during race week (Monaco, Singapore, Australia) and so the only way to really learn the track.
"More bad editorializing"
says the man who uses the word 'editorializing' without seeming to know what it means
You ain't seen nothing yet
Have a look at the comments on the windows 8 articles!
Nuclear bomb as a flame seemed too under stated
Re: What video?
try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8gz4bE3Aqg
Re: Own goal ?
I'd bet that at least half the crusties dancing in that store have an iphone and would be in tears if forced to part with it
Please stop...
perpetuating the myth that Mark Thomas is "Funny" or a "Comedian"
Re: Printing is Android's achilles heel
One of the reasons I bought a Tablet was to go paperless... printing from a tablet sort of defeats the purpose.
As for printing photos from a tablet... you have to be near a printer to print, so probably at home. It's a simple task to transfer the photos to a PC, this can even be done automatically via something like dropbox or a direct syncing app. Once on your PC the photo can be edited and corrected as appropriate and then printed.
This is why there is a position called DBA (Database administrator) which should be filled by a suitably qualified person, not some spiv who thinks it's easy cause it's SQL Server.
Re: This seems rather half-arsed
The third party start menu applications work by activating hidden/deactivated features of the the Windows GUI.
Given that I think it would be difficult for them to complain about much
Re: "A cold boot takes about 18 seconds to reach the login screen;"
Boot times are a pointless metric, I might reboot my laptop at most once a week. Most of the time I'm just putting it to sleep.
However, I do agree that a proper hybrid drive is better than the small factor SSD and HDD hybrid combo fitted to these. Especially if you do use any RAM heavy applications.
The Intel Rapid Store technology running on my current laptop is rubbish and I will be soon replacing both the 30GB mini sata drive and the 2.5" drive so that when rebuilt they will work independently
Re: Wrong, wrong,and wrong again
Congratulations on having no idea what statistical analysis is.
What you are querying is an absolute question with an absolute answer. Something which by the sounds of things you would need to query a live system for as you are so clear in wanting the most correct answer (Any backup is out of date as soon as it's finished building)
Please please please don't apply for a job with me until you get a clue
Re: Wron, wrong,and wrong again
Proves my point
In large data sets (population samples) 1 data point should not be able to skew your results that much. In most uncleansed data sets, max and min are junk values anyway and their only use is in finding anomalies in the data. What you really want to find is the percentiles.
When performing statistical analysis on large data sets there no need to compare data sets to workout how important that one row was. The only answer is; it wasn't important
If it is one row in a hundred thousand or a million it is statistically not important
If you think that one row in a million is statistically important then you're doing your stats wrong
Re: Really?
3500cm
Re: Obligatory xkcd(ish)
Arghh don't mention Up you'll get me blubbing like a girl again
Re: Obligatory xkcd(ish)
Almost brought a tear to my eye!
Re: Fail assumptions here
It works fine in Chrome
At least spread some honest FUD if you're going to do it
Vodafone Cayman Islands
Will be delighted at the news
Re: That well
He'll have to fill it up first
Re: Woah there
PETA would confiscate the dogs and have the owner prosecuted for animal cruelty.
Then, after 6 months of failing to rehome the dogs, they would be put down. Humanely of course
Re: Buy a book
Obviously my next course will be a beginners guide to HTML tags
Re: Buy a book
[i]You can ask questions on a course but don't expect the professional regurgitator pointing at slides to be able to answer them. Half the time, if it's not in the script, they wouldn't be able to explain what's on the slide.[/i]
Don't tar all courses with the same brush... a lot of the instructors on the better courses only instruct for a limited part of the year and spend the majority of their time consulting i.e. putting their infinite knowledge to good use.
If you want to go on a training course (and it's anything above beginner level) then make sure that the course instructor is named before you sign up and you get a chance to check their credentials.
Re: Actively Obstructive
My boss paid for my Masters degree, didn't force me to use my leave days for the course and even stumped up for some decent hotels and first class train tickets to and from uni. He fully appreciated that investing in education now means better returns later.
Another win for contracting and being your own boss
Re: Get rid of the ribbon too!
Are small biz owners naturally mentally deficient?
Re: Was there a Demo version?
Instead of a demo game, how about some sort of money back guarantee if the game fails to achieve a set playability benchmark on your equipment
Re: Well I can actually do
microsoft have a keyboard which even comes with a stand
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Mobile-Bluetooth-tablet-U6R-00006/dp/B009NY8SIK
Re: Conformity in other things, too
Maybe the Monkey had applied for a patent on his new tool and didn't want other monkeys stealing the idea then claiming prior art when his patent was accepted
"willingness of the immigrant males to adopt the local preference of their new groups"
So nothing like humans then
Re: Online filth.
There are links in the el reg strory to other news sources which have pics
Re: Outstanding
"At the present time, humans are still much better at context than computers."
And also much more expensive, which is why they tend to be eschewed in favour of electronic slaves
For the record, I'm not exonerating Virgin Media, I'm just accusing them of incompetence rather than being money grabbing unsympathetic bastards
Re: Outstanding
I don't think that Virgin did actually know why the bill wasn't paid. The automated billing system will probably just register the fact the payment has been declined and then blindly attach the decline message from the bank without any parsing or checking for reasons.
I presume that as we speak, some poor Indian is having to trawl through all the declined messages every received and add filters to the system to make sure that any Account Holder is Dead messages are handled in a more sensitive manner,
@El Andy
Before you argue any more check a dictionary or two
Re: The tax laws are open to all...
Yup, it really is that simple
Stop the press
Linux summit announces that Linux is Awesome
* Not that I disagree with that statement but it's hardly an impartial source
Re: No suprises in any of that.
Tablets are great for emulators and replaying Final Fantasy whilst stuck on a train for a extra 2 hours due to power line failures
Laptops are great for those evenings working away from home (I can't go out every night!)
Consoles are great when you're in your early 20's and have unfettered access to a widescreen TV which isn't constantly tuned into some reality TV shite by the Mrs
£2million
A mere accounting error in Google's world
Re: Oh well
If I am going to get a virus I prefer it to be electronic
Re: Coming to a wallet near you...
Mastercard and VISA are NOT credit card companies, they are payment processors. It is the issuing bank which provides the credit, not Mastercard or VISA.
Of course, with this over charging to PayPal and Google it could make it financially worthwhile for PayPal and Google setting up their own payment processing company which works directly with the worlds multitude of financial service providers.
Re: Time
It is a red top after all
Re: Looking good.
@Argh
I don't even know what MHL is
I might have lost the ability to touch focus with the flashlight on but I don't miss it (never used it to be honest)
Re: Looking good.
Well said
Best thing I ever did to my S3 was flash a custom ROM (cyanogenmod) on to it.
It's now more stable and hasn't got a whole pile of samsung (crap) I never use on it
Re: Top marks
I think that would just be a back up for the ADSL (if it is an ADSL, the colour and size of the text combined with the shit monitor I'm using make it almost unreadable)
Re: Texting whilst driving leads to arrest
If a man acts like a pig then he's a pig, his religion has nothing to do with it
Extensions
http://community.simtropolis.com/files/files/category/1-simcity-4/
Simcity 4 was massively extensible and there are addons for everything, some of them huge in scope.
The Network Addon Mod improves the sims route finding
And the are others which DOUBLE the number of buildings available and the growth levels
"Ploppable" buildings are also available in abundance
Re: Getting into Contracting
1. Apply for contract positions
2. Successfully land a contract position
If you can't manage step 1 then contracting might not be for you
