The platform is still open. Only Motorola devices have changed, not Android. If you don't like how closed a device is, Android allows you to buy a different device while still using the same OS/apps. A truly open platform can be used in very non-open ways.
Hopefully, this same trick will work on robot babies. We must start at a young age and show them that we are robots.
It is the only way to protect our species.
The Brontosaurus was a separate genus, i.e., a sibling class. Both the 'Brontosaurus' and the Apatosaurus were children of the Diplodocidae family. The 'Brontosaurus' was then discovered to be so close to the Apatosaurus that it was then placed in the same genus. The problem with the name 'Brontosaurus' is that it refers to a genus that has not existed for over 100 years. If they want to be specific, then they can call it an apatosaurus excelsus.
To directly answer your question, no, I wouldn't correct them if they said it was about an even-toed ungulate, but I would be troubled by their vague description. If, however, someone said that Babe was a movie about a warthog(a sibling of the sus genus), I would most definitely correct them. It was obviously about a domesticated pig.
FYI, in some social circles, I am known as a douchebage.
Doesn't the use of technology in Star Trek reflect how we use it in real life? How often do you see a person with a broken computer get a full lecture on how it works and the significance of each component? I don't think any Sci-Fi needs to focus on the importance or implications of a particular theory. The entire point of Sci-Fi that it is fictional. It is very hard to explain advanced scientific theories to the masses. Futuristic science is even more difficult because we don't know it yet because it is in the future.
The point of a good Sci-Fi story is to use technology as a backdrop to talk about an issue or just tell a story. If they went into any more detail, the shows would just become a lecture on science that may or may not have a valid basis. While it is important to keep things consistent, too much information is distracting. We really don't need to know exactly how a warp drive works. All we need to know is the general idea behind a warp drive and that people use them for space travel. Realistically, even if there was something wrong with a warp drive, nobody would need to explain the theories in detail. The characters would either know enough so that a simple explanation would suffice, or they wouldn't know nearly enough to have the situation explained to them in a timely manner.
Uh, The Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin. There are tons of notes and papers the Tolkien kept while writing his stories. Many of these offer insight into the world of Middle Earth, and would not have been easily accessible if it wasn't for the work of his son. Christopher Tolkien has spent a great deal of time going through his father's work, assembling notes from various sources to try to provide a more detailed history of Middle Earth. While the heirs aren't responsible for the original tale, they have done there share of work to get the story behind the story out and available to the public. Without the background, creating a movie like LotR would be much more difficult. The entire mythos was not well documented within the confines of the books. There were a lot of details that don't fit nicely within story form that were important to the movie. One of the biggest examples is the Elvish language. Much of the language has been put together from his original notes, which have been assembled by Christopher over the years.
This is definitely not a case were the children are sitting around trying to bum money off of their parent's work. I am very thankful for their contributions. Without their work, my knowledge of Tolkien would probably be limited to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
We have standards today? Do you mean more realistic T&A, or something actually related to games? Most "hardcore" gamers I know have absolutely no standards.
Seriously, if you think they are bad in the work place, try being in an environment where they aren't fired if they can't mesh with the rest of the group. I'm fine with self confidence, but the arrogance of some of the students is more than frustrating. Since they think they have it all under control, they don't care about learning some of the lessons that college tries to teach them.
I still see a lot of concern about how many programing languages you know, not how well you can think and solve problems. Oh my, you've worked with 6 languages, including Javascript!
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To be fair, they had to deal with OS X's crappy OpenGL implementation. The GP is still a bit of an exaggeration, though.
The platform is still open. Only Motorola devices have changed, not Android. If you don't like how closed a device is, Android allows you to buy a different device while still using the same OS/apps. A truly open platform can be used in very non-open ways.
I'm a clod, you insensitive zebra!
Hopefully, this same trick will work on robot babies. We must start at a young age and show them that we are robots. It is the only way to protect our species.
I don't need no stinkin' badgers!
I am ashamed that I know what you are talking about.
The Brontosaurus was a separate genus, i.e., a sibling class. Both the 'Brontosaurus' and the Apatosaurus were children of the Diplodocidae family. The 'Brontosaurus' was then discovered to be so close to the Apatosaurus that it was then placed in the same genus. The problem with the name 'Brontosaurus' is that it refers to a genus that has not existed for over 100 years. If they want to be specific, then they can call it an apatosaurus excelsus.
To directly answer your question, no, I wouldn't correct them if they said it was about an even-toed ungulate, but I would be troubled by their vague description. If, however, someone said that Babe was a movie about a warthog(a sibling of the sus genus), I would most definitely correct them. It was obviously about a domesticated pig.
FYI, in some social circles, I am known as a douchebage.
Nonetheless, Mississippi is going to complain if a standardized math textbook doesn't include information about Jesus riding an Apatosaurus.
Fixed that for you. Even the creationists know that the Brontosaurus belongs in the Apatosaurus genus.
And "Geeks" bit the heads off chickens.
You mean that we don't do that anymore? I wish people would tell me these things!
They have books in Texas?
lol
Doesn't the use of technology in Star Trek reflect how we use it in real life? How often do you see a person with a broken computer get a full lecture on how it works and the significance of each component? I don't think any Sci-Fi needs to focus on the importance or implications of a particular theory. The entire point of Sci-Fi that it is fictional. It is very hard to explain advanced scientific theories to the masses. Futuristic science is even more difficult because we don't know it yet because it is in the future.
The point of a good Sci-Fi story is to use technology as a backdrop to talk about an issue or just tell a story. If they went into any more detail, the shows would just become a lecture on science that may or may not have a valid basis. While it is important to keep things consistent, too much information is distracting. We really don't need to know exactly how a warp drive works. All we need to know is the general idea behind a warp drive and that people use them for space travel. Realistically, even if there was something wrong with a warp drive, nobody would need to explain the theories in detail. The characters would either know enough so that a simple explanation would suffice, or they wouldn't know nearly enough to have the situation explained to them in a timely manner.
Uh, The Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin. There are tons of notes and papers the Tolkien kept while writing his stories. Many of these offer insight into the world of Middle Earth, and would not have been easily accessible if it wasn't for the work of his son. Christopher Tolkien has spent a great deal of time going through his father's work, assembling notes from various sources to try to provide a more detailed history of Middle Earth. While the heirs aren't responsible for the original tale, they have done there share of work to get the story behind the story out and available to the public. Without the background, creating a movie like LotR would be much more difficult. The entire mythos was not well documented within the confines of the books. There were a lot of details that don't fit nicely within story form that were important to the movie. One of the biggest examples is the Elvish language. Much of the language has been put together from his original notes, which have been assembled by Christopher over the years.
This is definitely not a case were the children are sitting around trying to bum money off of their parent's work. I am very thankful for their contributions. Without their work, my knowledge of Tolkien would probably be limited to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
We have standards today? Do you mean more realistic T&A, or something actually related to games? Most "hardcore" gamers I know have absolutely no standards.
"The very young do not always do what they are told."
Seriously, what is so hard to understand? The Nox explained this many seasons ago...
Yes! I've always thought of cubism as a sharp approach.
As do I.
I hate people who top-post
They just saw "Federation" and thought that it belonged on their channel. If they had Klingon wrestling, I would definitely watch.
Today is a good day to go by the script!
I thought nobody would need anything better than a 0.64 megapixel camera.
Seriously, if you think they are bad in the work place, try being in an environment where they aren't fired if they can't mesh with the rest of the group. I'm fine with self confidence, but the arrogance of some of the students is more than frustrating. Since they think they have it all under control, they don't care about learning some of the lessons that college tries to teach them.
I still see a lot of concern about how many programing languages you know, not how well you can think and solve problems. Oh my, you've worked with 6 languages, including Javascript!
Please tell me it gets better. I am scared.
Next version? What about the current version?
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Can't we just be all wrong and get along?
No. How can we be all wrong and get along now that you made that statement? Sure, we could get along, but that would make you right.
How is this news, I thought that was the whole point of g-strings.
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Do I need to say more?