Maybe one of the big names over at Microsoft said at some point he wanted his employees to adopt the "lack of risk" mantra, but instead they all understood "lack of RISC.";-)
Hope there won't be too many "buggers" taking advantage of exploits in this one game — since it's open source after all, they can fix the bugs pretty quickly, right?
A prime example of this trend in the videogame sphere is Doom 3 — I would come across spelling mistakes about every other time I read an email in the protagonist's PDA.
Yes, you have to look both ways. It doesn't matter what side of the road people drive on; you just have to look towards immediate potential danger first.
The review over at Guru3D shows that it fits between an HD4670 and a 9600GT performance-wise. As for video acceleration, you're looking at a VP4 engine.
For Infinity engine-based RPGs — the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series, plus Planetscape Torment —, you can use the Gibberlings 3 widescreen mod. I have also been lucky with Arcanum, since Terra Arcanum hosts a high resolution patch that works perfectly.
I'm a French speaker myself, but I have a bachelor's degree in English — which is why I know the language better than your run of the mill Frenchman.
When looking for jobs in the US, the websites are unambiguous enough to put "US Citizens Only" instead of "Americans", why being ambiguous (and/or lazy) in any other cases?
That's the whole official versus casual scenario here. Say you're going out with a couple of friends to have a few drinks at a bar downtown. If you tell them to be there at eight, they will automatically understand "8 p.m.," because you know and I know that most people don't go and get drunk at eight in the morning. Now, say you're going to a job interview tomorrow at eight; the paper will either read 8 a.m. or p.m., first and foremost, because you can't guess for sure. Secondly, because it's something official, and official papers are always unambiguous.
First, because English is defined by customary usage: if, for instance, a majority of English speakers start pronouncing a word in a different way, then that pronunciation will become valid after a while. The shift could also occur semantically. The French have the Académie française, the Germans have the Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung; but for the English tongue, there exist no such academy.
Secondly, one should not forget that language is by no means systematic. Take the word "anti-Semitism," for example. We all know it means "hatred towards Jews." Now, let's decompose that word for analytical purposes: - anti- means "against" - Semite means "Semitic-speaking person" Woah, wait... Arabic — among other languages — is also a Semitic language. So why has the word "Semite" come to specifically designate Jews? For the same reason we call the United States "America" or the Caribbeans, the "West Indies."
So, the bottom line is: in linguistics, pragmatism often wins where logics ought to prevail.
Next thing you know is they (the Britons) are going to demonstrate that driving on the right side of the road means driving on the wrong side of the road.
Maybe combine Grand Theft Auto and education by making the player add up fines or the value of the drugs he just stole...
Anyone remembers bartering in Fallout games? You had to use caps or dollars to make up for the price difference between your stuff and the NPC's stuff. I always found that mentally doing the maths was kind of fun; that being said, I don't think the developers had educational purposes in mind when conceiving this aspect of the game.
What trap? S800 devices can run at S400 if necessary, just like S400 can run at S100.
True, but you'll need a bilingual cable to plug, say, an S800 external hard drive to a computer that only has S400 ports and vice-versa, meaning you'll have to carry different cables with you depending on the available connectors on the machine you're using. With USB though, all the ports on the machine are USB-A ports, so you just need one single cable.
Please note that I am not taking the mini and micro flavors into consideration was intentional, as both interfaces have miniature versions for portable devices.
I own this game and it is collecting dust somewhere.
So's mine. I think got tired of mashing the low punch/kick, middle punch/kick, high punch/kick combos and of superjumping all over the place firing missiles. KoF though? I still play it on a regular basis. I really can't believe that of all 2D fighting games that were released for the Dreamcast, the OP chose MvC2. What about the one I've just mentioned, KoF? What about Garou? What about Street Fighter III?
While what you say is true, we need spelling standards. Yes, English spelling is misleading — that is, unless you're French and have spent a great deal of time studying diachronic linguistics —, but without these standards, communication will be even more hindered than it already is by the people who disregard spelling rules. Think of it as "it sucks, but that's the best we got."
What helped me was being required to use MLA for papers at the master's level. I learned a lot of things about punctuation in English, and it piqued my curiosity so much I had to check back on the standards in my mother tongue as well.
While you do have a point here, I have never been able to bring myself to degenerate my typing for an extended period of time without affecting my "proper for work" style. Using shorthand made me waste time during classes and tests because I had to check several times, having gotten used to misspell words to go faster   which, paradoxically, made me go more slowly.
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I think that, with the word Muslimism, GP was referring to Islamism, which can be defined as, amongst others, "the ideology that guides society as a whole and that law must be in conformity with the Islamic sharia."
Maybe one of the big names over at Microsoft said at some point he wanted his employees to adopt the "lack of risk" mantra, but instead they all understood "lack of RISC." ;-)
When Linux is installed on every computer in half a millennium time, we'll be living in a perfect, brave GNU world. ;-)
Hope there won't be too many "buggers" taking advantage of exploits in this one game — since it's open source after all, they can fix the bugs pretty quickly, right?
A prime example of this trend in the videogame sphere is Doom 3 — I would come across spelling mistakes about every other time I read an email in the protagonist's PDA.
Yes, you have to look both ways. It doesn't matter what side of the road people drive on; you just have to look towards immediate potential danger first.
CUDA only works on nVidia graphics card.
The review over at Guru3D shows that it fits between an HD4670 and a 9600GT performance-wise. As for video acceleration, you're looking at a VP4 engine.
For Infinity engine-based RPGs — the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series, plus Planetscape Torment —, you can use the Gibberlings 3 widescreen mod. I have also been lucky with Arcanum, since Terra Arcanum hosts a high resolution patch that works perfectly.
When looking for jobs in the US, the websites are unambiguous enough to put "US Citizens Only" instead of "Americans", why being ambiguous (and/or lazy) in any other cases?
That's the whole official versus casual scenario here. Say you're going out with a couple of friends to have a few drinks at a bar downtown. If you tell them to be there at eight, they will automatically understand "8 p.m.," because you know and I know that most people don't go and get drunk at eight in the morning. Now, say you're going to a job interview tomorrow at eight; the paper will either read 8 a.m. or p.m., first and foremost, because you can't guess for sure. Secondly, because it's something official, and official papers are always unambiguous.
Actually, the grandparent post is totally right.
First, because English is defined by customary usage: if, for instance, a majority of English speakers start pronouncing a word in a different way, then that pronunciation will become valid after a while. The shift could also occur semantically. The French have the Académie française, the Germans have the Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung; but for the English tongue, there exist no such academy.
Secondly, one should not forget that language is by no means systematic. Take the word "anti-Semitism," for example. We all know it means "hatred towards Jews." Now, let's decompose that word for analytical purposes:
- anti- means "against"
- Semite means "Semitic-speaking person"
Woah, wait... Arabic — among other languages — is also a Semitic language. So why has the word "Semite" come to specifically designate Jews? For the same reason we call the United States "America" or the Caribbeans, the "West Indies."
So, the bottom line is: in linguistics, pragmatism often wins where logics ought to prevail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva
Next thing you know is they (the Britons) are going to demonstrate that driving on the right side of the road means driving on the wrong side of the road.
I call DIBs on the X server. Especially if it sucks.
As long as people aren't educated as to how this all works the problem will remain huge.
You're right; people need to learn how computers work. That said, I don't understand how you can trust ads.
Maybe combine Grand Theft Auto and education by making the player add up fines or the value of the drugs he just stole...
Anyone remembers bartering in Fallout games? You had to use caps or dollars to make up for the price difference between your stuff and the NPC's stuff. I always found that mentally doing the maths was kind of fun; that being said, I don't think the developers had educational purposes in mind when conceiving this aspect of the game.
What trap? S800 devices can run at S400 if necessary, just like S400 can run at S100.
True, but you'll need a bilingual cable to plug, say, an S800 external hard drive to a computer that only has S400 ports and vice-versa, meaning you'll have to carry different cables with you depending on the available connectors on the machine you're using. With USB though, all the ports on the machine are USB-A ports, so you just need one single cable.
Please note that I am not taking the mini and micro flavors into consideration was intentional, as both interfaces have miniature versions for portable devices.
Okay, we are returning "Freedom Fries" back to their original name "French Fries". Happy now?
Actually, some people claim they're Belgian. Others even think the first people who fried potatoes were the Spaniards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries#Culinary_origin
I own this game and it is collecting dust somewhere.
So's mine. I think got tired of mashing the low punch/kick, middle punch/kick, high punch/kick combos and of superjumping all over the place firing missiles. KoF though? I still play it on a regular basis. I really can't believe that of all 2D fighting games that were released for the Dreamcast, the OP chose MvC2. What about the one I've just mentioned, KoF? What about Garou? What about Street Fighter III?
While what you say is true, we need spelling standards. Yes, English spelling is misleading — that is, unless you're French and have spent a great deal of time studying diachronic linguistics —, but without these standards, communication will be even more hindered than it already is by the people who disregard spelling rules. Think of it as "it sucks, but that's the best we got."
Fudzilla claims these 40 watts we're talking about translate into a 60W TDP though.
I like the smell of sheep in the morning.
What helped me was being required to use MLA for papers at the master's level. I learned a lot of things about punctuation in English, and it piqued my curiosity so much I had to check back on the standards in my mother tongue as well.
While you do have a point here, I have never been able to bring myself to degenerate my typing for an extended period of time without affecting my "proper for work" style. Using shorthand made me waste time during classes and tests because I had to check several times, having gotten used to misspell words to go faster   which, paradoxically, made me go more slowly.
(...) highly motivated volunteers who have ordinary jobs but when called upon drop everything and go and save lives what ever the weather.
Sounds a lot like M.A.S.K. to me.