But did you absolutely require that information printed on paper, or would a PDF or HTML file do the job?
Only if the game doesn't waste half a minute every time you switch tasks, become unstable because of it, or crash right away. Which would be a large portion of games. So yeah, having it on paper is usually quite handy.
I always use the word "idiot" to refer to those who persist in a position that is not supported by the facts and persist (often forcefully) in their ignorance of the facts, even going so far as to deliberately avoid any information which may taint their preset world-views.
How am I persisting? I made a statement based on my own experiences, you corrected me, and I accepted the information. Just in case it wasn't clear in my previous post; I hereby admit that I was wrong.
Personally - I think "grammar nazi" should be added to philosophy classes as one of the most common fallacies of our time. It's a variant on the ad hominem attack. Whether a person spelled the words in his argument correctly does NOT in any way relate to whether his argument is correct or not.
I didn't question the correctness of his argument. I questioned the view that you need to be a native English speaker to capitalize, punctuate, and spell correctly.
You're example is machine translations of the same source text ?!?!?!?
That was nacturation, not me.
Try to actually LEARN at least one foreign language before forming opinions about it. [...] In fact I was required to be Trilingual just to finish Highschool.
As was I. Finnish, Swedish and English. But like I said, it's rather limited and euro-centric.
Quite frankly, it's not that hard.
You know what else is not hard? Reading the discussion you're replying to. If you had done that you would know I'm not a native speaker of English.
Please, before you reply to me again, make sure I'm the person you should be replying to.
Not really. I pay attention to most things I do, not just writing and programming, and did so even before I started programming. Before you ask, no OCD or anything like that.
Besides, I mostly program in statically typed languages, meaning that typos are usually caught early and aren't that big of a deal, not to mention that I've programmed a significant amount of time with autocompletion, which definitely wouldn't contribute to excessive carefulness.
Capitalization and punctuation don't vary that much across languages, so that's no excuse. If you're unsure of the spelling, you can check from a dictionary or enable spellchecking in the browser.
It's cute when people completely ignore the context of discussion, and the inherent scope it brings to words like "mega". Wait, no, that's not cute at all.
What really happened was some guys who connected to the BBS set up a service accessible with telnet which contained the logs of their access to the BBS.
1. You are always playing the game.
2. Whenever you think about The Game, you lose.
3. Losses must be announced.
Now, I thought about The Game several times last month, yet didn't announce any of them. I disobeyed rule number 3, yet apparently was still playing the game, which would mean that obeying the rules is not mandatory. Therefore, I've decided to ignore the rules completely and stop playing.
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But did you absolutely require that information printed on paper, or would a PDF or HTML file do the job?
Only if the game doesn't waste half a minute every time you switch tasks, become unstable because of it, or crash right away. Which would be a large portion of games. So yeah, having it on paper is usually quite handy.
I thought most of the cost was marketing?
And yet Impulse is infinitely better than Steam because you don't need to run Impulse in order to run games you've bought via Impulse.
Apple sells the same kind of freedom as Microsoft.
I always use the word "idiot" to refer to those who persist in a position that is not supported by the facts and persist (often forcefully) in their ignorance of the facts, even going so far as to deliberately avoid any information which may taint their preset world-views.
How am I persisting? I made a statement based on my own experiences, you corrected me, and I accepted the information. Just in case it wasn't clear in my previous post; I hereby admit that I was wrong.
Personally - I think "grammar nazi" should be added to philosophy classes as one of the most common fallacies of our time. It's a variant on the ad hominem attack. Whether a person spelled the words in his argument correctly does NOT in any way relate to whether his argument is correct or not.
I didn't question the correctness of his argument. I questioned the view that you need to be a native English speaker to capitalize, punctuate, and spell correctly.
You're example is machine translations of the same source text ?!?!?!?
That was nacturation, not me.
Try to actually LEARN at least one foreign language before forming opinions about it. [...] In fact I was required to be Trilingual just to finish Highschool.
As was I. Finnish, Swedish and English. But like I said, it's rather limited and euro-centric.
Quite frankly, it's not that hard.
You know what else is not hard? Reading the discussion you're replying to. If you had done that you would know I'm not a native speaker of English.
Please, before you reply to me again, make sure I'm the person you should be replying to.
Ah, forgive me my euro-centric and rather limited experience of other languages.
But I think you're reading way too much into my post. The concept that we're all born with some perfect language built-in is just silly.
Current linguistic theory as it applies to your statement can be summarized as follows: you're an idiot.
No need to get personal. There's an enormous difference between lacking intelligence and lacking knowledge.
Not really. I pay attention to most things I do, not just writing and programming, and did so even before I started programming. Before you ask, no OCD or anything like that.
Besides, I mostly program in statically typed languages, meaning that typos are usually caught early and aren't that big of a deal, not to mention that I've programmed a significant amount of time with autocompletion, which definitely wouldn't contribute to excessive carefulness.
Yes, why?
Capitalization and punctuation don't vary that much across languages, so that's no excuse. If you're unsure of the spelling, you can check from a dictionary or enable spellchecking in the browser.
I simply pay attention to what I'm writing.
Right, because everyone must be a native English speaker to spell, capitalize, and punctuate correctly.
For example, I'm not.
It's cute when people completely ignore the context of discussion, and the inherent scope it brings to words like "mega". Wait, no, that's not cute at all.
But people are rarely logical and tend to just do what others are doing.
That, or they keep doing what they've always been doing.
Those are voxels, not pixels, dammit!
Couldn't it be considered a derivative work?
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Didn't anyone tell them not to explain the joke?
This is just viral advertising for American McGee's Pac-Man. Anyone who follows the video game industry should already know this.
And remember guys, we don't hate Hitler because of his economic policies.
It comes from these type of lolcats. Sure, it's not the best choice, but it's far from "stuffed shirt syntax".
What really happened was some guys who connected to the BBS set up a service accessible with telnet which contained the logs of their access to the BBS.
And do you really have absolute total recall?
Well, I have a Special Limited Edition Total Recall, is that good enough?
Clones (mediocre or not) are another thing that isn't exclusive to open source.
I like the MythBusters method more.
Consider the rules.
1. You are always playing the game.
2. Whenever you think about The Game, you lose.
3. Losses must be announced.
Now, I thought about The Game several times last month, yet didn't announce any of them. I disobeyed rule number 3, yet apparently was still playing the game, which would mean that obeying the rules is not mandatory. Therefore, I've decided to ignore the rules completely and stop playing.
So you prefer a blog which complains about such atrocities as "Something happens in fiction that would not happen in real life"?