Oh no. A company might trend in an unfavorable direction!
So what? Those of us using Macs because it's an awesome GUI on top of *nix will switch to Linux. Those of us who are using Macs because they are easy to use and hard to crash will continue to use them.
Plagiarism doesn't mean what you think it means. A sequel to Gone with the Wind isn't plagiarism, it's a new work using an existing setting and characters.
Also, what culture are you from? Around these parts, remixes abound and everyone grabs pictures from Google Images.
Agreed and my experience is very similar to yours. I switched to primarily console FPS gaming around Halo 2 and haven't looked back. I went from "only idiots play FPS games on a console" during the time of Goldeneye on the N64 to "eh, it's not so bad" with Halo 2, to "wow, I actually prefer the console" with recent games. Using a mouse/keyboard allows for simply inhuman turning speed and accuracy. I get a much more tense and exciting experience being limited by the input device to turning at something close to actual character speed. Call of Cthulhu on the XBox was that turning point for me.
After that article went up dozens of people found it googling for "facebook login", and then proceeded to leave scathing comments about the "new" facebook design.
Here's an idea, rather than resorting to an unethical practice why don't you just not play the game? Or is being annoyed a license to do whatever you want?
Who knows how much of such "ancient wisdom" was lost and then re-developed only to be lost again, during these past tens of millennia.
All of it, and remove the word "ancient". The (multiple and discrete) dinosaur space programs were a huge success, but everything that didn't escape Earth orbit was subsumed into the strata millions of years ago after each of their extinction level events.
Easy, post an explanation to the official playstation twitter account and playstation blog. Be open about the problem, admit it's a mistake, admit we aren't going to fix it, explain that it's one day. Call March 1st "Playstation Nap Day"
*Any* programmer should feel superior because this is an extremely trivial bug that should've never been allowed to see the light of day. This only serves to highlight what must've been a breakneck release schedule as Sony was bringing the original PS3 to market (the newer slim PS3s were unaffected).
I'd bet money that Sony caught this firmware bug too late in their production cycle to fix it (i.e. the firmware chips were already burned). An issue that might come up every two years? That would hardly warrant a "stop the presses" to Sony.
Because with 3d animation you can program in your model, program in your model's movement rules, and then that model can make motions that you never specifically animated.
Thank you, exactly my point. Robots, robots, robots. Get them up there in the thousands and thousands and process the hell out of Mars and the rest of our solar system. Science, terraforming, resource extraction. None of those things require humans to physically leave Earth's orbit until we have another Earth to go to.
Hell, it's the end of America's manned spaceflight program in general.
Great! We've romanticized the idea of sending our delicate forms into space for too long. We need to get serious about getting robots up there to do our science, terraforming, and resource extraction. I'm not talking about a measly two rovers (awesome as they are), but hundreds and thousands of robots churning away at making the solar system our lab.
Major analogy fail. Native Americans were living in the "wasteland" when the Roanoke Colony was founded.
Make an analogy of how we colonized somewhere genuinely inhospitable (e.g. Antarctica, the bottom of the ocean, the molten core of a volcano) and that'll fit. Find an Earth compatible planet that we can get to and that'll fit. Otherwise, space is great but it will kill you dead without Earth. What we need to do is take a long term view of off-planet colonization and start making it happen. We need to send robots to start the hundreds (if not thousands) of years long process of terraforming Mars into something that could independently sustain humans.
You say that like there is a guaranteed income in "full time employment".
There is if you work for the government. A state university can be a surprisingly great place to: 1) have jaw-dropping job security, 2) a 40 hour work week, and 3) a flexible schedule. The pay is nothing to cheer about, but it's enough.
I take it you didn't watch their most excellent deconstruction of just about every "we didn't land on the moon" myths? Or the recent one where they achieved an 10% fuel efficiency increase by adding golf ball-like dimples to the body of a car?
Science isn't just theory, science is also getting out there, getting your hands dirty, and seeing what actually happens.
I used to agree with you, then I actually watched more of the show.
As usual, XKCD: http://xkcd.com/397/ At the time, I disagreed with this comic. Now, especially in the recent seasons, I completely agree.
Hold the phone there. In Independence Day the United States had been studying the alien craft for decades, it's entirely probably that computer technology was based on that study. His mac was simply using a known, existing connection to the alien ship which was then connecting to the mothership.
A network bridge isn't some mystical, magical technology is it?
Do you really need to divide a foot into inches all that much? You know that's the *only* part of the US system that uses 12 right?
Are there 12 feet in a yard? No? You mean you're suddenly dealing with 3/2, 3/3, 3/4, 3/6? Huh.
How many yards are there in a mile? 12? 24? What? 1760? That doesn't even make sense. How is that related to the glorious "everything is divisible by the factors of 12" scheme? The factors of 1760 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 16, 20, 22, 32, 40, 44, 55, 80, 88, 110, 160, 176, 220, 352, 440, 880, and 1760.
So, to compare:
Metric: 1 centimeter 10 centimeters = 1 decimeter 10 decimeters = 1 meter 1000 meters = 1 kilometer
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Oh no. A company might trend in an unfavorable direction!
So what? Those of us using Macs because it's an awesome GUI on top of *nix will switch to Linux. Those of us who are using Macs because they are easy to use and hard to crash will continue to use them.
Why are you worked up over this?
(Yes, I'm laughing.)
Plagiarism doesn't mean what you think it means. A sequel to Gone with the Wind isn't plagiarism, it's a new work using an existing setting and characters.
Also, what culture are you from? Around these parts, remixes abound and everyone grabs pictures from Google Images.
Yeah, and he probably has a cell phone. And uses the Internet. And consumes caloric energy from food.
Yep, all those things, horribly painted in a bad light now.
Oh wait.
Dude, you're forgetting that in the context of the movie all modern computer technology was derived from the analysis of the alien spaceship.
It worked like this:
Goldblum Computer -> known, prebuilt interface to alien ship -> mothership -> invasion fleet
No other civilization had computers? That's more of a stretch!
Agreed and my experience is very similar to yours. I switched to primarily console FPS gaming around Halo 2 and haven't looked back. I went from "only idiots play FPS games on a console" during the time of Goldeneye on the N64 to "eh, it's not so bad" with Halo 2, to "wow, I actually prefer the console" with recent games. Using a mouse/keyboard allows for simply inhuman turning speed and accuracy. I get a much more tense and exciting experience being limited by the input device to turning at something close to actual character speed. Call of Cthulhu on the XBox was that turning point for me.
Actually, they are googling for facebook and getting hilariously confused with the result:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php
After that article went up dozens of people found it googling for "facebook login", and then proceeded to leave scathing comments about the "new" facebook design.
Here's an idea, rather than resorting to an unethical practice why don't you just not play the game? Or is being annoyed a license to do whatever you want?
Who knows how much of such "ancient wisdom" was lost and then re-developed only to be lost again, during these past tens of millennia.
All of it, and remove the word "ancient". The (multiple and discrete) dinosaur space programs were a huge success, but everything that didn't escape Earth orbit was subsumed into the strata millions of years ago after each of their extinction level events.
Easy, post an explanation to the official playstation twitter account and playstation blog. Be open about the problem, admit it's a mistake, admit we aren't going to fix it, explain that it's one day. Call March 1st "Playstation Nap Day"
Did you write the firmware or something?
*Any* programmer should feel superior because this is an extremely trivial bug that should've never been allowed to see the light of day. This only serves to highlight what must've been a breakneck release schedule as Sony was bringing the original PS3 to market (the newer slim PS3s were unaffected).
I'd bet money that Sony caught this firmware bug too late in their production cycle to fix it (i.e. the firmware chips were already burned). An issue that might come up every two years? That would hardly warrant a "stop the presses" to Sony.
Because with 3d animation you can program in your model, program in your model's movement rules, and then that model can make motions that you never specifically animated.
You misunderstand, xkcdsucks is for those of us who loved xkcd when it was still good.
http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/2008/10/frequently-asked-irritating-self.html
Regardless, XKCD Explained is much better and more insightful heckling of the comic.
Thank you, exactly my point. Robots, robots, robots. Get them up there in the thousands and thousands and process the hell out of Mars and the rest of our solar system. Science, terraforming, resource extraction. None of those things require humans to physically leave Earth's orbit until we have another Earth to go to.
Hell, it's the end of America's manned spaceflight program in general.
Great! We've romanticized the idea of sending our delicate forms into space for too long. We need to get serious about getting robots up there to do our science, terraforming, and resource extraction. I'm not talking about a measly two rovers (awesome as they are), but hundreds and thousands of robots churning away at making the solar system our lab.
Major analogy fail. Native Americans were living in the "wasteland" when the Roanoke Colony was founded.
Make an analogy of how we colonized somewhere genuinely inhospitable (e.g. Antarctica, the bottom of the ocean, the molten core of a volcano) and that'll fit. Find an Earth compatible planet that we can get to and that'll fit. Otherwise, space is great but it will kill you dead without Earth. What we need to do is take a long term view of off-planet colonization and start making it happen. We need to send robots to start the hundreds (if not thousands) of years long process of terraforming Mars into something that could independently sustain humans.
You say that like there is a guaranteed income in "full time employment".
There is if you work for the government. A state university can be a surprisingly great place to: 1) have jaw-dropping job security, 2) a 40 hour work week, and 3) a flexible schedule. The pay is nothing to cheer about, but it's enough.
Because it was insightful. Snarky sure, but insightful.
The AC didn't say that the *equation* was in question, but that the numbers we have to plug into that equation are very suspect.
In my personal experience, he is *way* underestimating physical attractiveness. 1 in 20 for his age group? More like 1 in 5, and that's conservative.
I take it you didn't watch their most excellent deconstruction of just about every "we didn't land on the moon" myths? Or the recent one where they achieved an 10% fuel efficiency increase by adding golf ball-like dimples to the body of a car?
Science isn't just theory, science is also getting out there, getting your hands dirty, and seeing what actually happens.
I used to agree with you, then I actually watched more of the show.
As usual, XKCD: http://xkcd.com/397/ At the time, I disagreed with this comic. Now, especially in the recent seasons, I completely agree.
That's not flamebait, just a simple misreading. Of course the works *should* be in the public domain.
In other words: *woosh*
Hold the phone there. In Independence Day the United States had been studying the alien craft for decades, it's entirely probably that computer technology was based on that study. His mac was simply using a known, existing connection to the alien ship which was then connecting to the mothership.
A network bridge isn't some mystical, magical technology is it?
It took me longer than it should've to answer this riddle. Shortcut for the similarly caffeine deprived: andrewd18 means "P" as in Windows XP.
Seriously, I was like "Win...dows?" "U...nix?" "Micro...soft?" "OS...X"? "BS...D"?
Sounds like you appreciate the work of one Sir Ridley Scott more than Dan O'Bannon.
Do you really need to divide a foot into inches all that much? You know that's the *only* part of the US system that uses 12 right?
Are there 12 feet in a yard? No? You mean you're suddenly dealing with 3/2, 3/3, 3/4, 3/6? Huh.
How many yards are there in a mile? 12? 24? What? 1760? That doesn't even make sense. How is that related to the glorious "everything is divisible by the factors of 12" scheme? The factors of 1760 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 16, 20, 22, 32, 40, 44, 55, 80, 88, 110, 160, 176, 220, 352, 440, 880, and 1760.
So, to compare:
Metric:
1 centimeter
10 centimeters = 1 decimeter
10 decimeters = 1 meter
1000 meters = 1 kilometer
Imperial:
1 inch
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
1760 yards = 1 mile
Yeah. Awesome.
Re: your sig
Religion = a belief without proof
Atheism = a belief that there is no God, afterlife, and all that
Not even caring enough to have a label is a religion to the same extent that not collecting stamps is a hobby.