The problem there is the manufactured ones aren't in enough quantity to make buying them worthwhile. For individual stones, you can probably get mined diamonds cheaper.
I'd love to be wrong about this. Does anyone know of a place for manufactured diamonds that is considerably cheaper? Any size, any quality suitable for jewelry.
Threatening someone with eternal damnation hardly qualifies as a non-coercive method.
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I'm curious what you would think of corporate control over work conditions was like in 1904.
That we have a whole new level of transparency that we didn't have in 1904 doesn't mean that corporate scandal is new, it only means we actually hear about it much more frequently.
Call me back when you're not too stoned to run a business and you're actually providing jobs for people. Then let me know if it's still your opinion that the government takes a hands off approach and just frees you up to be productive.
Are there abuses today? Yes. Is this something new? Hardly.
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I've seen the ad. Nobody stopped me from viewing it.
They didn't get to play it anywhere they want, that hardly means it has been censored.
Even if I granted that there is a monopoly on airtime. These companies are publicly traded. You are free to buy one and air that commercial if you so choose.
Look at the difference between airing that commercial and airing porn. CBS chooses not to air the commercial. They can't air the porn. One is censored, the other is perhaps too depressing for what should be a fun event.
I'm currently learning to read Icelandic. Anyone know of any resources for learning Icelandic, starting with English? The stuff on the net seems sparse.
I don't know whether I'm agreeing or not either. It would depend on the open sourceness of the license.
Anything that allowed a fork would result in Java forking, regardless of an official version or not. Maybe Sun could get in gear and remerge later. I think this would happen just because Sun doesn't move fast enough for the open source community.
Anything that didn't allow a fork would be lukewarm at best. I haven't seen anything great come out of OSS where it is not a meritocracy.
Football and Volleyball come out closely. Given equal talent (physical) levels, it all becomes: 1. Execution 2. Looking like something else
Ideally you can run or pass from the same formation. If you had one formation for run and one for pass you'd be eaten alive.
Sometimes you run unsuccessful plays just to see how the other side reacts and set up a future play that has the same look but different move later in the game.
For instance, watch the tight end as he switches from one side to the other, he'll run behind the quarterback, get to the other end and 9/10 he'll end up block the defensive guy at his end for a running play. A team might run that 5 times for 1 yard each. But just once they'll let the tight end release and his man will rush the quarterback thinking he's beaten his block, instead of staying with the tight end who gets a quick pass, a little yardage and a first down or even touchdown (this play is common on the goal line).
It is physical in the sense that having a better runner makes your run game better.
It is mental in the sense that being *perceived* as having a better runner makes your *passing* game better.
Oh, and I don't even like football. I just started noticing this while watching. Once I noticed it, it was observable all over the field.
Volleyball is the same thing. If you have just one good hitter on your front row, he'll get blocked 90% of the time. If you have two good hitters and the opposing middle blocker reads the setter, you're in for a lot of blocks still. It's not until you can hold that middle blocker in the middle and get the ball out to either side for 1v1 that you're going to do anything useful.
Those two games are so dependent on showing one thing and executing another because they are so episodic in nature. Baseball isn't nearly the same since there is the huge random factor of a pitcher trying to get a ball past the batter.
Oh, one last thing about football. You have to be able to stay cool and not give away your plan even while someone is trying to take your head off.
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When someone points to the exclusion of that ad and calls it censorship, they are not claiming that CBS is exercising editorial control over their program. They also "censor" the "objectionable" ads that don't come with $2 million each as well.
Definitions in English are contextual. Deliberately relying on a definition that the common person is obviously not using is...well...slashdot I guess.
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Censorship is something the government does. When it is done by company or individual it is editorial control.
Sure, CBS may have an agenda behind playing/not playing something. Taking money for one ad like that may cost them a lot of money for other ads somewhere else. Or maybe they just like Bush. Whatever, if you want a free country, you have to allow people to be free to choose which ads not to show. After all, they paid a buttload of money to air the superbowl, er, the big game in Houston.
I for one don't want my entertainment filled up with depressing issues. Sure those issues may be important but they don't belong *in* my entertainment.
I'm currently a bit pissed off by the ads that are running before the movies. I don't mind them selling stuff before the slated movie time. And there is a certain tradition to trailers. But when they get into lecturing me about drug use and movie theft at every movie I go to, they've crossed the line.
I don't pay $7 to be lectured. Personally, I don't do drugs nor do I steal movies. But after being lectured for it I'm about driven to the point of stealing movies. I'm torn between three options: 1. boycott the theatre. 2. Steal movies so the ads become appropriate 3. Raise hell with the management of the theatre until they stop playing that crap.
Where was I? Oh, the anti-bush-spending ad. Yea, I'm against most government spending. Stop spending so much money and stop taking mine. Does this group making this ad have a proposed budget? Let's see it and the reasoning behind it. It's easy to hate the people in charge and say they spend too much without saying what needs to go.
Oh, and as far as decriminalization ads go, I thought the whole superbowl was a show celebrating regular users of drugs.
It's because when a guy says someone is hot, what is really said is, "I would do her". And they mean it.
When a woman says another woman is hot, she's expressing envy.
Related to these issues is the phrase "I'm happy with the shape and size of my butt" that you'll never hear from any woman, ever. At the same time the thought has rarely crossed the mind of any guy, except when thinking something like "these stadium seats are too small."
If they released it under an open source license, it would immediately be changed into a non-compatible version that would correct the mistakes originally made in Java. This version would be wildly popular except with people that like to type lots of bullshit code because it makes them feel good.
I've read/heard that joke many times. Usually some European discussing differences in Europe. The telling I've heard most has involved just the police, chefs and engineers (English, French, German).
Being a big fan of cycling and former fan of F1, I have to say that your version of Italian organizers would seem to hold true. Every year, the Giro looks like it's a brand new spectacle. For racing, the Italian teams seem to hold a monopoly on the term "there is confusion in the pits."
Not to criticize too sharply. What they seem to lack in organization they make up for with panache.
I was merely contributing list of words that are wrongly reinforced on slashdot.
Wow, you caught the non-word. What you didn't catch was the fact that I used a contrived sentence in order to place a non-word at the end of a post about wrongly used/spelled words.
Then it should properly be "Compile once, run anywhere."
But it is not. I would suspect that "write once run anywhere" deliberately muddies the water to make it appear that other languages *must* require rewriting before being run on another platform.
Perhaps "write once, interpret anywhere" would be more appropriate since a JVM must be present.
In either language, a program need only be written once. One language requires preparation for every target platform and the other language requires preparation of every target machine.
I could compile once with just about any language and just make a requirement that each machine runs an emulator. Would that make it cross platform? I fail to see how that is different than requiring a JVM be present.
I think CAD work will only guarantee you can use the tools.
To clarify my previous statements, I'd say the biggest difference is that with CAD you sweat the details a lot more. Level design is mostly freed up from the details. You only worry about whether a drainpipe can be crawled through and looks disgusting. You don't worry about whether anyone sells that size drainpipe.
One is about drawing your imagination relatively unconstrained. The other is at best about finding creative solutions to practical needs.
Oh, and very rarely do you worry about field of fire in regular CAD work:)
As someone that has done CAD work, I'm not sure about that. There is some overlap in skill but it really didn't help me much when trying to build levels.
CAD work is all about distances and areas. It will help you adjust to the tools somewhat, but Level design is all about the feel and exact measurements don't matter too much. Nobody cares if your door is 6'8" or 7' really. You can stretch the texture to fit in a way that you just can't stretch a door.
This can't be stressed enough. It's like when someone is looking for a person to do graphics, they'll ask to see what that person can draw by hand.
Most level design positions will accept portfolios from a variety of games/toolsets. They want to see what the applicant can do with what he has and what he can do that stands out from everyone else.
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Lax constraints let us more freely express our thoughts in code.
This may be a problem for you but it is not a problem for all of us.
The problem there is the manufactured ones aren't in enough quantity to make buying them worthwhile. For individual stones, you can probably get mined diamonds cheaper.
I'd love to be wrong about this. Does anyone know of a place for manufactured diamonds that is considerably cheaper? Any size, any quality suitable for jewelry.
Sure, con artists do it all the time.
It is not the threat they believe so much as the confidence of the other person.
Also, it is a threat whether a person believes it or not.
Stop this madness now! The BSD Daemon has been hunted to near extinction and now BSD is dying.
Threatening someone with eternal damnation hardly qualifies as a non-coercive method.
I'm curious what you would think of corporate control over work conditions was like in 1904.
That we have a whole new level of transparency that we didn't have in 1904 doesn't mean that corporate scandal is new, it only means we actually hear about it much more frequently.
Call me back when you're not too stoned to run a business and you're actually providing jobs for people. Then let me know if it's still your opinion that the government takes a hands off approach and just frees you up to be productive.
Are there abuses today? Yes.
Is this something new? Hardly.
I've seen the ad. Nobody stopped me from viewing it.
They didn't get to play it anywhere they want, that hardly means it has been censored.
Even if I granted that there is a monopoly on airtime. These companies are publicly traded. You are free to buy one and air that commercial if you so choose.
Look at the difference between airing that commercial and airing porn. CBS chooses not to air the commercial. They can't air the porn. One is censored, the other is perhaps too depressing for what should be a fun event.
OT from the current OT.
I'm currently learning to read Icelandic. Anyone know of any resources for learning Icelandic, starting with English? The stuff on the net seems sparse.
I don't know whether I'm agreeing or not either. It would depend on the open sourceness of the license.
Anything that allowed a fork would result in Java forking, regardless of an official version or not. Maybe Sun could get in gear and remerge later. I think this would happen just because Sun doesn't move fast enough for the open source community.
Anything that didn't allow a fork would be lukewarm at best. I haven't seen anything great come out of OSS where it is not a meritocracy.
Football and Volleyball come out closely. Given equal talent (physical) levels, it all becomes:
1. Execution
2. Looking like something else
Ideally you can run or pass from the same formation. If you had one formation for run and one for pass you'd be eaten alive.
Sometimes you run unsuccessful plays just to see how the other side reacts and set up a future play that has the same look but different move later in the game.
For instance, watch the tight end as he switches from one side to the other, he'll run behind the quarterback, get to the other end and 9/10 he'll end up block the defensive guy at his end for a running play. A team might run that 5 times for 1 yard each. But just once they'll let the tight end release and his man will rush the quarterback thinking he's beaten his block, instead of staying with the tight end who gets a quick pass, a little yardage and a first down or even touchdown (this play is common on the goal line).
It is physical in the sense that having a better runner makes your run game better.
It is mental in the sense that being *perceived* as having a better runner makes your *passing* game better.
Oh, and I don't even like football. I just started noticing this while watching. Once I noticed it, it was observable all over the field.
Volleyball is the same thing. If you have just one good hitter on your front row, he'll get blocked 90% of the time. If you have two good hitters and the opposing middle blocker reads the setter, you're in for a lot of blocks still. It's not until you can hold that middle blocker in the middle and get the ball out to either side for 1v1 that you're going to do anything useful.
Those two games are so dependent on showing one thing and executing another because they are so episodic in nature. Baseball isn't nearly the same since there is the huge random factor of a pitcher trying to get a ball past the batter.
Oh, one last thing about football. You have to be able to stay cool and not give away your plan even while someone is trying to take your head off.
When someone points to the exclusion of that ad and calls it censorship, they are not claiming that CBS is exercising editorial control over their program. They also "censor" the "objectionable" ads that don't come with $2 million each as well.
Definitions in English are contextual. Deliberately relying on a definition that the common person is obviously not using is...well...slashdot I guess.
Censorship is something the government does. When it is done by company or individual it is editorial control.
Sure, CBS may have an agenda behind playing/not playing something. Taking money for one ad like that may cost them a lot of money for other ads somewhere else. Or maybe they just like Bush. Whatever, if you want a free country, you have to allow people to be free to choose which ads not to show. After all, they paid a buttload of money to air the superbowl, er, the big game in Houston.
I for one don't want my entertainment filled up with depressing issues. Sure those issues may be important but they don't belong *in* my entertainment.
I'm currently a bit pissed off by the ads that are running before the movies. I don't mind them selling stuff before the slated movie time. And there is a certain tradition to trailers. But when they get into lecturing me about drug use and movie theft at every movie I go to, they've crossed the line.
I don't pay $7 to be lectured. Personally, I don't do drugs nor do I steal movies. But after being lectured for it I'm about driven to the point of stealing movies. I'm torn between three options: 1. boycott the theatre. 2. Steal movies so the ads become appropriate 3. Raise hell with the management of the theatre until they stop playing that crap.
Where was I? Oh, the anti-bush-spending ad. Yea, I'm against most government spending. Stop spending so much money and stop taking mine. Does this group making this ad have a proposed budget? Let's see it and the reasoning behind it. It's easy to hate the people in charge and say they spend too much without saying what needs to go.
Oh, and as far as decriminalization ads go, I thought the whole superbowl was a show celebrating regular users of drugs.
It's because when a guy says someone is hot, what is really said is, "I would do her". And they mean it.
When a woman says another woman is hot, she's expressing envy.
Related to these issues is the phrase "I'm happy with the shape and size of my butt" that you'll never hear from any woman, ever. At the same time the thought has rarely crossed the mind of any guy, except when thinking something like "these stadium seats are too small."
If they released it under an open source license, it would immediately be changed into a non-compatible version that would correct the mistakes originally made in Java. This version would be wildly popular except with people that like to type lots of bullshit code because it makes them feel good.
I've had the whole fridge freeze. Not a single explosion on 48 frozen cans.
Science Fiction version of Lewis Carroll's work, in space written for adults.
It has the feel of the author telling the reading a fantastic story.
Read the first 5 pages in a book store. It starts fast enough you should be able to tell by then.
I've read/heard that joke many times. Usually some European discussing differences in Europe. The telling I've heard most has involved just the police, chefs and engineers (English, French, German).
Being a big fan of cycling and former fan of F1, I have to say that your version of Italian organizers would seem to hold true. Every year, the Giro looks like it's a brand new spectacle. For racing, the Italian teams seem to hold a monopoly on the term "there is confusion in the pits."
Not to criticize too sharply. What they seem to lack in organization they make up for with panache.
First, I'm neither a spelling nor grammar nazi.
I was merely contributing list of words that are wrongly reinforced on slashdot.
Wow, you caught the non-word. What you didn't catch was the fact that I used a contrived sentence in order to place a non-word at the end of a post about wrongly used/spelled words.
Come one, its just one mispelling.
Bah!
The virus is closed source and runs on Windows. It clearly has nothing to with the GNU/Linux.
Hehe, insert joke about BSD catching a virus...
Then it should properly be "Compile once, run anywhere."
But it is not. I would suspect that "write once run anywhere" deliberately muddies the water to make it appear that other languages *must* require rewriting before being run on another platform.
Perhaps "write once, interpret anywhere" would be more appropriate since a JVM must be present.
In either language, a program need only be written once. One language requires preparation for every target platform and the other language requires preparation of every target machine.
I could compile once with just about any language and just make a requirement that each machine runs an emulator. Would that make it cross platform? I fail to see how that is different than requiring a JVM be present.
A pure java program runs on the JVM. Any other platforms?
C++ requires a compilation for each platform. Java requires an installion of a whole other set of programs and libraries for each machine.
I agree mostly.
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I think CAD work will only guarantee you can use the tools.
To clarify my previous statements, I'd say the biggest difference is that with CAD you sweat the details a lot more. Level design is mostly freed up from the details. You only worry about whether a drainpipe can be crawled through and looks disgusting. You don't worry about whether anyone sells that size drainpipe.
One is about drawing your imagination relatively unconstrained. The other is at best about finding creative solutions to practical needs.
Oh, and very rarely do you worry about field of fire in regular CAD work
As someone that has done CAD work, I'm not sure about that. There is some overlap in skill but it really didn't help me much when trying to build levels.
CAD work is all about distances and areas. It will help you adjust to the tools somewhat, but Level design is all about the feel and exact measurements don't matter too much. Nobody cares if your door is 6'8" or 7' really. You can stretch the texture to fit in a way that you just can't stretch a door.
The Slashdot crowd is guilty of this as well:
definately
rediculouse
wierd
there instead of their
loose instead of lose
All of these come up on Slashdot alot.
This can't be stressed enough. It's like when someone is looking for a person to do graphics, they'll ask to see what that person can draw by hand.
Most level design positions will accept portfolios from a variety of games/toolsets. They want to see what the applicant can do with what he has and what he can do that stands out from everyone else.