The Sims came out after the buyout by EA and the expansion packs were all done by other teams inside of Maxis courtesy of EA (sorry, no reference). If you think about it, the base games show the same style as earlier maxis games while the expansions stink of EA's sequel/expansion-style franchise milking.
If you can't type in the language, you probably can't speak it, and if you can't speak it, then you probably won't understand the page that's behind that URL anyway. Having a url in another language almost guarantees the content will be too. It's like complaining about a TV commercial being in another language: sure, you don't understand it, but you weren't the audience anyway.
I think the better metaphor would be "trying to move a mountain with a spoon instead of a pen cap." Seriously, taking into account the number of stars, the number of planets orbiting the stars, and the span of time that they're likely to be spewing radio waves, the task is monumental compared to any resources that SETI may get. The work is still important, but let's not underestimate the task.
Hopefully Will Wright and the Sims will have taught EA that, sometimes, you just need to STFU and let groups with an awesome track record continue what they're doing. If Bioware gets gimped because of EA, slashdot should start a boycott of EA products. Seriously, if the Slashdot crowd led the way, others might follow and put just enough pressure on EA to get them to stick to their sports games while real companies innovate and expand the gaming market.
Let's hope that Bioware, like Maxis/Will Wright, can fight hard to get free reign. Pandemic, on the other hand, will just slowly fold in on itself as it become just another EA company.
I thought the point of DNS was so that you could dynamically have names resolve to IP addresses so that we could remember Google.com instead of remembering any of 100 IP addresses that are all Google servers. Adding more languages on top of it doesn't change the fact that you're (basically) aliasing an IP address with a name. If anything, keeping it all English is what negates DNS for foreigners, for whom a string of English is as hard to remember as an IP address is for someone who's fluent in English.
I'm just mad at the shitty PHB manager that kept the programmers from finishing the job.
PHB: "Hey, is that wheelchair program done yet? I've got another project for you."
Code Monkey: "Almost, I've got it where we can recognize whether it's a yes or no, now I just have to plug it into the Hawking program and he can start to talk again."
PHB: "Just make some lights blink or something, we've got too much work to do for you to spend that much time on a project with no recurring fees."
I've seen it happen more than once, actually, and the latest studies find that the ESRB ratings are more effective than movie ratings. I see laws like this as something like seat belt laws: everyone has the tools, they either know about them or should be able to find out about them if they put effort into it, and yet the government feels the need to push the agenda beyond the point where it's reasonable.
There's nothing more dangerous than someone who can think [somewhat] logically and still pushes for harmful policy. He thinks the same thing about you I'm sure. The point of the matter is that he's coming from a different perspective than most of the people on slashdot, he realizes there are a lot of very valid concerns coming from parents, and he's trying to make a compromise the best way that he can. He understands the issues and he's stood up for free speech in video games before. The balance he's striking might not be the balance that you or I want, but at least he's willing to look at the issue rationally before deciding and campaigning.
It's amazing how many people bitch and moan about delaying a game that they're expecting without giving any consideration as to why that game is going to be delayed While there's usually a good reason (in the case of Smash Bros. it's going to be really, really good to miss the holiday season), it's always disappointing that the developer wasn't able to more accurately estimate the amount of time the game would require. Yes, i would rather wait longer than I expected for a good game; at the same time, I would have rather had them wait another month before giving a release date and have that release date be accurate.
When Microsoft consistently buys companies with good products, improves them and releases them free, come tell me how they're the same level as Google. As it stands now, Google bought a company with a couple of products, built one of the products up and turned it into a free service with a huge following while not spending a lot of resources on the other product. The ignoring of the product was evil, the building up of google analytics was good, we come out with overall neutral.
Yes, he releases three comics a week, and in my opinion, this is the best one of the past month, possibly the past year. That's how it's new. As to it being news, they have comics in the newspaper, right?
It seems that the only two major nations that have EVER had an issue with violence/sex/etc. Germany's currently going ape-shit against violent games. France has nude beaches, but walking nude down the street is still going to cause a commotion. There are a lot of nations that are more religious than the US is. Japan is reserved enough that public nudity's going to cause an outrage and their porn movies are all blurred in the good parts.
So no, the US and UK aren't the only countries that have issues with violence and sex.
I agree with the beginning of your post, but not the conclusion. Yes, we've been messing with blood transfusions for centuries, but in that time we've learned about blood types (thus explaining the mysterious deaths of a large portion of those receiving transfusions), learned to test for diseases, store and maintain blood supplies, and have the donation down to a system where I can do it at lunch and go back to work. Now, we may even be able to do a hybrid of synthetic/natural blood that's more effective than the stored blood would be otherwise; that's quite a feat.
Your concluding that scientists are just pissing in the wind is like concluding that car manufacturers are just pissing in the wind because of the recent invention of heated seats.
OOo returns to the standard used by all other apps. When you have the choice of placating the 800 lb gorilla or four kittens, you placate the gorilla. 90% of the market that OOo is trying to capture is using excel, they should program to that standard, or at least allow a flag to be set.
No, you totally misunderstood the problem and gave a very bad response No, you misunderstand! And my dad can beat yours up!
and calc can't read his mind to know that it's actually in csv format and not text as it claims Calc's trying to read his mind by sending the file to another program than he's trying to open it in. However much they might try and dress this pig up as the correct solution, a simple preg match against the first five lines will show whether it's a csv or not and if it is keep it in the program he's opening it with. If calc's going to read minds (by sending the file to another program), it should try to do it correctly.
So does this mean I will live forever Forever is a concept that requires time's motion, therefore, that question is meaningless. Just as you inhabit a certain portion of space now, you will also inhabit a certain portion of time.
We all march through time at the same "rate" (what ever that unitless velocity means!), does this mean we will now all have to move through space at the same velocity Since velocity is distance over time, velocity has no meaning with time's motion. Also, as the speed of light has shown us, you can think of everyone as moving at the same speed (the speed of light) already, it's just that most of the motion happens in the dimension of time. If you were to speed up in the other three dimensions (like, say, take a trip to alpha centauri), you would move more slowly in the fourth dimension. However, that only holds true if the special theory of relativity holds true, which string theory does not necessarily do (it starts from a quantum mechanical base).
If there's no time how do I move in space? Since movement is a form of velocity, it's meaningless without time. To take a 2-dimensional metaphor, this is like drawing a circle on a piece of paper. Were you to take that circle and show it with time as a third dimension, you would get a cylinder. If the circle moves over time, then the cylinder will change shape from just a straight cylinder to a cylinder that curves. We'll be much the same way, although it's hard if not impossible to imagine a fourth spatial dimensions, so good luck.
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The Sims came out after the buyout by EA and the expansion packs were all done by other teams inside of Maxis courtesy of EA (sorry, no reference). If you think about it, the base games show the same style as earlier maxis games while the expansions stink of EA's sequel/expansion-style franchise milking.
If you can't type in the language, you probably can't speak it, and if you can't speak it, then you probably won't understand the page that's behind that URL anyway. Having a url in another language almost guarantees the content will be too. It's like complaining about a TV commercial being in another language: sure, you don't understand it, but you weren't the audience anyway.
I think the better metaphor would be "trying to move a mountain with a spoon instead of a pen cap." Seriously, taking into account the number of stars, the number of planets orbiting the stars, and the span of time that they're likely to be spewing radio waves, the task is monumental compared to any resources that SETI may get. The work is still important, but let's not underestimate the task.
Hopefully Will Wright and the Sims will have taught EA that, sometimes, you just need to STFU and let groups with an awesome track record continue what they're doing. If Bioware gets gimped because of EA, slashdot should start a boycott of EA products. Seriously, if the Slashdot crowd led the way, others might follow and put just enough pressure on EA to get them to stick to their sports games while real companies innovate and expand the gaming market.
Let's hope that Bioware, like Maxis/Will Wright, can fight hard to get free reign. Pandemic, on the other hand, will just slowly fold in on itself as it become just another EA company.
The mother wolf kills the calf, and the blood drips down, feeding the children. It's a very long explanation...
I thought the point of DNS was so that you could dynamically have names resolve to IP addresses so that we could remember Google.com instead of remembering any of 100 IP addresses that are all Google servers. Adding more languages on top of it doesn't change the fact that you're (basically) aliasing an IP address with a name. If anything, keeping it all English is what negates DNS for foreigners, for whom a string of English is as hard to remember as an IP address is for someone who's fluent in English.
I'm just mad at the shitty PHB manager that kept the programmers from finishing the job.
PHB: "Hey, is that wheelchair program done yet? I've got another project for you."
Code Monkey: "Almost, I've got it where we can recognize whether it's a yes or no, now I just have to plug it into the Hawking program and he can start to talk again."
PHB: "Just make some lights blink or something, we've got too much work to do for you to spend that much time on a project with no recurring fees."
I've seen it happen more than once, actually, and the latest studies find that the ESRB ratings are more effective than movie ratings. I see laws like this as something like seat belt laws: everyone has the tools, they either know about them or should be able to find out about them if they put effort into it, and yet the government feels the need to push the agenda beyond the point where it's reasonable.
And, as much as we might like to, let's not forget "Star Trek: Generations", with the saucer section crash landing.
The mom's body was later found floating in a river. The cause of death: chair-related injuries.
I wish they would carry those lessons over to firefox sometime soon.
When Microsoft consistently buys companies with good products, improves them and releases them free, come tell me how they're the same level as Google. As it stands now, Google bought a company with a couple of products, built one of the products up and turned it into a free service with a huge following while not spending a lot of resources on the other product. The ignoring of the product was evil, the building up of google analytics was good, we come out with overall neutral.
Yes, he releases three comics a week, and in my opinion, this is the best one of the past month, possibly the past year. That's how it's new. As to it being news, they have comics in the newspaper, right?
So no, the US and UK aren't the only countries that have issues with violence and sex.
I agree with the beginning of your post, but not the conclusion. Yes, we've been messing with blood transfusions for centuries, but in that time we've learned about blood types (thus explaining the mysterious deaths of a large portion of those receiving transfusions), learned to test for diseases, store and maintain blood supplies, and have the donation down to a system where I can do it at lunch and go back to work. Now, we may even be able to do a hybrid of synthetic/natural blood that's more effective than the stored blood would be otherwise; that's quite a feat.
Your concluding that scientists are just pissing in the wind is like concluding that car manufacturers are just pissing in the wind because of the recent invention of heated seats.
Good Lord, you need professional help. I don't care if that was a metaphor for someone who uses and installs netware, you have serious problems.
I don't know, I hear the prosecution has a written confession...
Sorry, I should have said "testable", my bad.
As the "google is now evil" posts go, that ranks as pretty intelligent.