Trivia or not, it doesn't change the fact that is "basic scientific information". Or at least, basic knowledge of the world that is useful, or at least interesting, to have. A "scientific mind" (damn, I'm abusing quotes) starts with a gathering of random but interesting knowledge (as you call, trivia), from that point you start infering and dealing with patterns and such to develop critic thinking.
To fail at basic info like that, shows a disregard for scientific knowledge. And that is foundation of critical thought (together with some philosophy in it).
Science spur from the need of understanding the natural world around us, and that came after knowing some silly facts and asking yourself: "Why is that so?".
The Sims is the best selling PC game of all time, and there isn't much there in the way of content or gameplay. The users create it for themselves. Same with The Sims 2, and Spore. Then there is Second Life. So that market can work.
It can work in a way. SL works because people can put real life money on it, and more important, extract real life money from it. SL is more kind of a framework than a game. But still has a parent company governing it.
As for The Sims, remember that EA, specially on The Sims 2, had a big degree of control on how the game worked. The user created item and skins happened, but would sure be big, with most people waiting for the official releases.
GP do have a point, the most successful MUDs were the one that had a lot of control over the creative process, and even when they let others produce content for it, they controlled the way it would get implemented, reserved the right to re-balance and change things.
An open-source MMO can happen, if it is well controlled. And has a company to back it up.
There's enough weak-willed people out there that a good panhandler can live in a house.
Just a quote in here, a local newspaper where I live (O Globo) once did a survey on how much in general a panhandler, asking for money for about 9 hours a day, was getting in a month. It ammounted to almost 1000 dollars. After I got out of college, my pay, as a Computer Scientist Bachelor was 1100 dollars. Working the same 9 hours.
It uses 2 halves of 45 minutes, with 15 minutes in between. Plus, usually, 2-4 minutes of overtime to compensate for small pauses during the game.
On playoffs or other special occasions when we can't have a tie, another 2 halves of 15 minutes, with 1 minute in between and 10 minutes before it starts. Keeping the tie we have shout-outs, that usually last for 20 minutes.
So, in normal circumstances, a match will take less than 2 hours to finish. In some cases it will take about 3. Only one very unusual things happens, like a huge fight, power outtage making you have to stop the game, and such it will take longer.
WTF are you talking about? Users shouldnt have to know how to use a computer? Thats like saying I could drive a car without ever learning how to do it, then blaming the car when I cant figure out how to start it, or when I inevitably crash it.
Wrong. It is more like wanting to drive a car and knowing how the roads are pavemented and how the different kinds of paintings are done. And more important, how the system that calculates the time the traffic light, that you know to obey, stays green is developed.
As someone else said, user don't use the OS, they use the other softwares, the OS is just a main base, that they won't care about. Yes, that is the reason so many security roles crawl upon windows lands, but like it or not, if the Linux community wants its software to be widespread and used by everyone, they need to deal with this kind of people. And telling them that they are doing it wrong and should learn a lot of different things is the worst way to do it.
According to TFA, when you deactivate it you can't launch the browser. The files are there because their API is used by other essencial parts of the browser or other third part programs.
To delete mshtml.dll would mean that a huge part of windows (and third-party programs) would simply stop working. Think about it as deleting any critical linux file, example, let's delete man, suddenly a lot of things will stop working. In the case of windows it is more critical because the OS will stop working.
But, what do I know, a software company reusing functions and functionality instead of copy-and-paste reimplementing it, that is wrong, right? Right?
If they open the contest for anyone outside the US they are open to have a bunch of lawyers to deal with all the rules for contest on these other countries. The protections the participants have, and the rules they can or cannot apply.
Any type of contest that deals with money, need to be confined to a small subset of countries where you, as the company doing it, have the ability and knowledge of the legal system. And have representatives that can protect you from any lawsuit that my arise there. Be it from the participants, or the Government.
If memory serves, Diebold supposedly landed in the voting machine business by acquiring another company (name escapes me, but I imagine somebody knows what the name was.) As such it's possible that the group of people working on the "flawless" ATM machines are not the same group that worked on the voting machines.
It doesn't matter that there is too different groups of engineers working at Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows 7, or Visual Studio. Microsoft as a whole will be held accountable for all that happens with its software.
Whenever I do something that pisses off my girlfriend (yes, I'm one of the rare slashdotters with a SO), ask random people on the Internet to send her flowers, giving them her address in between.
On a second thought, do I still have the address of my bitch ex-girlfriend? Hmmmm *punders*
WTf??? Resident Evil IV influential?? Where is Shadow of the Colossus? Lego Star Wars Complete Saga? Ok, I love these games but I wouldn't call they influential at all.
I see no Pacman on that list. Something is deeply wrong.
San Andreas Influential? I concur that the first GTA was pretty important, and maybe, MAYBE, put Vice City on there as it was a major shift on the style, but not San Andreas.
Final Fantasy XII - muahahahahahahahahah mauhahahahahahah *gasp for air*. Ok I laughed hard on that one. There were 2 big Final Fantasies that indeed made important contributions to the Genre FFIV and FFVII. Those should be on that list. On the RPG side they are missing Secret of Mana.
I see no representative of the dating-game market (pretty influential in Japan), I don't know which one would that be, maybe Cobra Mission or Princess Maker 1(although I think it was only for PC)
Adventure, Enduro, Space Invaders and Pit Fall for the Atari. They pushed the boundaries of the console for its generation.
King of Figthers '95 for the Neo Geo CD
Mario kart at number one!?!?!?!? What have this kids been smoking?!?!?!?!?
I prefer Valentino, always. His reds are magnificent. Although the occasional Coco Channel or Yves Saint Laurent's black with high puffy white collars baby, is certainly fashion.
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Fucking facepalm.
that's how you kids are calling it these days?
Trivia or not, it doesn't change the fact that is "basic scientific information". Or at least, basic knowledge of the world that is useful, or at least interesting, to have. A "scientific mind" (damn, I'm abusing quotes) starts with a gathering of random but interesting knowledge (as you call, trivia), from that point you start infering and dealing with patterns and such to develop critic thinking.
To fail at basic info like that, shows a disregard for scientific knowledge. And that is foundation of critical thought (together with some philosophy in it).
Science spur from the need of understanding the natural world around us, and that came after knowing some silly facts and asking yourself: "Why is that so?".
The Sims is the best selling PC game of all time, and there isn't much there in the way of content or gameplay. The users create it for themselves. Same with The Sims 2, and Spore. Then there is Second Life. So that market can work.
It can work in a way. SL works because people can put real life money on it, and more important, extract real life money from it. SL is more kind of a framework than a game. But still has a parent company governing it.
As for The Sims, remember that EA, specially on The Sims 2, had a big degree of control on how the game worked. The user created item and skins happened, but would sure be big, with most people waiting for the official releases.
GP do have a point, the most successful MUDs were the one that had a lot of control over the creative process, and even when they let others produce content for it, they controlled the way it would get implemented, reserved the right to re-balance and change things.
An open-source MMO can happen, if it is well controlled. And has a company to back it up.
If this exercise had been done with criminal intent it would be breaking the law.
Ok, so, I don't know much about the laws, but it is illegal, isn't it?
It is not illegal if you are a journalist. It would be illegal if it were you or I though. If you are a blogger it is not clear yet.
There's enough weak-willed people out there that a good panhandler can live in a house.
Just a quote in here, a local newspaper where I live (O Globo) once did a survey on how much in general a panhandler, asking for money for about 9 hours a day, was getting in a month. It ammounted to almost 1000 dollars. After I got out of college, my pay, as a Computer Scientist Bachelor was 1100 dollars. Working the same 9 hours.
It uses 2 halves of 45 minutes, with 15 minutes in between. Plus, usually, 2-4 minutes of overtime to compensate for small pauses during the game.
On playoffs or other special occasions when we can't have a tie, another 2 halves of 15 minutes, with 1 minute in between and 10 minutes before it starts. Keeping the tie we have shout-outs, that usually last for 20 minutes.
So, in normal circumstances, a match will take less than 2 hours to finish. In some cases it will take about 3. Only one very unusual things happens, like a huge fight, power outtage making you have to stop the game, and such it will take longer.
WTF are you talking about? Users shouldnt have to know how to use a computer? Thats like saying I could drive a car without ever learning how to do it, then blaming the car when I cant figure out how to start it, or when I inevitably crash it.
Wrong. It is more like wanting to drive a car and knowing how the roads are pavemented and how the different kinds of paintings are done. And more important, how the system that calculates the time the traffic light, that you know to obey, stays green is developed.
As someone else said, user don't use the OS, they use the other softwares, the OS is just a main base, that they won't care about. Yes, that is the reason so many security roles crawl upon windows lands, but like it or not, if the Linux community wants its software to be widespread and used by everyone, they need to deal with this kind of people. And telling them that they are doing it wrong and should learn a lot of different things is the worst way to do it.
"Why would I click on 'Start' to shut down?"
Because even a shutdown process has an Start. Of all the problems in Windows terminology, this is by far the silliest one.
Not quite everything shown: only their own productions, not foreign stuff they have to buy rights for.
Which is expected. Their own products, is their own to do what they please. Foreign products are only licensed, as they should be.
The problem I see with it is that unless you turn your TV's sound way up, you're going to hear the tinny off-key strings of the guitar while you play.
And what about the bloody click-click-click-click noise a Guitar hero controller do every time? That thing drives me crazy.
According to TFA, when you deactivate it you can't launch the browser. The files are there because their API is used by other essencial parts of the browser or other third part programs.
To delete mshtml.dll would mean that a huge part of windows (and third-party programs) would simply stop working. Think about it as deleting any critical linux file, example, let's delete man, suddenly a lot of things will stop working. In the case of windows it is more critical because the OS will stop working.
But, what do I know, a software company reusing functions and functionality instead of copy-and-paste reimplementing it, that is wrong, right? Right?
If they open the contest for anyone outside the US they are open to have a bunch of lawyers to deal with all the rules for contest on these other countries. The protections the participants have, and the rules they can or cannot apply.
Any type of contest that deals with money, need to be confined to a small subset of countries where you, as the company doing it, have the ability and knowledge of the legal system. And have representatives that can protect you from any lawsuit that my arise there. Be it from the participants, or the Government.
If memory serves, Diebold supposedly landed in the voting machine business by acquiring another company (name escapes me, but I imagine somebody knows what the name was.) As such it's possible that the group of people working on the "flawless" ATM machines are not the same group that worked on the voting machines.
It doesn't matter that there is too different groups of engineers working at Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows 7, or Visual Studio. Microsoft as a whole will be held accountable for all that happens with its software.
And still, even choosing that heck of shit setup for a voting machine, it is still Goddamit easy to build a software that does exactly what it needs.
I will echo that it is too much incompetence. It has to be malice.
Wait? Leaving a paper trail of the voting? I don't thing that was "missed" or "left out", it is more like a feature.
Unless you saw that you could make a funny post about a troll post, then it is funny. :)
Linux Torvalds (snip.) Linux Torvalds (snip.) Linux Torvalds (snip.) 'Linux Torvalds?' (snip.) Linux Torvalds (snip.) Linux Torvalds's
Who is this Linux Torvalds you keep talking about? Is that a new distro I don't know?
No, you're one of the dime-a-dozen slashdotters who thinks that having an SO makes you rare among slashdotters.
Or I'm one of the many slashdotters that liek to make a joke at slashdotters.
Didn't you ponder about that? ;) (see what I did there?)
Whenever I do something that pisses off my girlfriend (yes, I'm one of the rare slashdotters with a SO), ask random people on the Internet to send her flowers, giving them her address in between.
On a second thought, do I still have the address of my bitch ex-girlfriend? Hmmmm *punders*
WTf??? Resident Evil IV influential?? Where is Shadow of the Colossus? Lego Star Wars Complete Saga? Ok, I love these games but I wouldn't call they influential at all.
I see no Pacman on that list. Something is deeply wrong.
San Andreas Influential? I concur that the first GTA was pretty important, and maybe, MAYBE, put Vice City on there as it was a major shift on the style, but not San Andreas.
Final Fantasy XII - muahahahahahahahahah mauhahahahahahah *gasp for air*. Ok I laughed hard on that one. There were 2 big Final Fantasies that indeed made important contributions to the Genre FFIV and FFVII. Those should be on that list. On the RPG side they are missing Secret of Mana.
I see no representative of the dating-game market (pretty influential in Japan), I don't know which one would that be, maybe Cobra Mission or Princess Maker 1(although I think it was only for PC)
Adventure, Enduro, Space Invaders and Pit Fall for the Atari. They pushed the boundaries of the console for its generation.
King of Figthers '95 for the Neo Geo CD
Mario kart at number one!?!?!?!? What have this kids been smoking?!?!?!?!?
Why the hoax tag? There is no moon? Or have the tinfoil nutjobs awaken earlier today?
I prefer Valentino, always. His reds are magnificent. Although the occasional Coco Channel or Yves Saint Laurent's black with high puffy white collars baby, is certainly fashion.
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Die. Die in a hellish fire!!!!!
Wow. Fortunecity. I suddenly feel very old.