I love seeing different projects supporting each other on Kickstarter. OpenShot is awesome, and this seems like a great way for it to be improved (in addition to the two new platforms, the OpenShot folks have some pretty cool features planned). I have to say, I'm more excited about enhancements to OpenShot, than I am about Cox's new film:-)
Pardon, the outside funding is around $10M, not the total funding goal, crowd-sourcing included. I think there is enough funding to extend the goals beyond the original scope (which I agree would have been impossible to meet, even in the $4-5M range).
Oh, how do you figure? The traditional investment portion was to be some $8M (to bring the budget up to ~$10M), and is supposedly already lined up, modulo the initial funding goal (I believe Chris stated as much during one of the Reddit AMA's).
Moreover, of all the extended goal possibilities in the poll, which do you seriously believe would go toward bringing in new backers? More missions than before? More NPCs? I suspect that the lion's share of backers who would be swayed by those (and the "improved FPS mode"...) have already pledged. Also, are you Seumas on Kickstarter as well? If so, then of all people, you should realize that Linux support has a greatly different level of importance on a crowd-funding campaign (where the Linux community is heavily active) than the wider gaming world.
Perpenso Calc(tm)... either a speling fail on my part, or it must have been one of those dirty, rotten, thieving, knock-off apps flooding the app store.
I think that would be "Troll troll Troll troll trolls trolls Troll troll"; The Troll trolls that troll other Troll trolls, are themselves trolled by Troll trolls", where a "Troll troll" is a troll that primarily trolls another troll.
Somewhat close to buffalo^8, though it may not actually be true, even if grammatically correct (which it may also not be).
After the first 3-5 papyri with actual text on it, you sort of find a transcription rhythm...
It helps greatly to have familiarity with the Greek alphabet from both a mathematical perspective but also from modern hand-written Greek. It's surprising how many common cosmetic styling permutations are still present today...
While, yes, the "consumer" thing is true, it's taken out of context. It's less of a "code word" than it is general term for anyone who uses mental health services. The full term is "mental health consumer", and refers to an individual who receives mental health services (like counseling, psychiatry, pharmaceuticals, etc., whatever the treatment is that they require). Also, it doesn't only refer to folks who are dealing with a developmental retardation (like Down's, etc.), but it could be clinical depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality, ADHD, or schizophrenia, etc.
The reason it has a more extreme connotation in your brother's experience is likely that during his training, he had a special class (or session at least) to teaching law enforcement how to better deal with situations involving really sick folks, probably dissociated from reality at least partially, probably off of their medications, and probably totally freaked out. In fact, lots of folks really are "consumers" in this sense... if he were to have to shoot & kill a hostile person in the line of duty, he'd likely have mandatory counseling, even if his coping skills are sufficient without the counseling. In that case, he, too would technically be a "mental health consumer". Not everyone using that term to describe themselves is necessarily a very ill person.
Not to detract from the privacy discussion... but the above discussion is actually somewhat relevant. To sum up the blurb, the term was coined in the '90s by folks who used mental health services to raise awareness of their needs; in particular, focusing on the fact that "mental health consumers" are required for the "mental health service providers" to even exist & stay in business. In particular, it can be really difficult to get attention paid to the quality of your treatment when "people think you're crazy" for example... (off topic, but stigma is a big problem in the mental health field as well). So, their status as consumers of services (being the client, patient, or what have you) can also be empowering in a capitalist sort of way, if applied correctly, and as a large, organized, and influential group.
Similarly, all of us who are exposed to unsavory advertising techniques are, indeed, also consumers of goods and services. We need to find ways to apply that correctly if we wish the market to conform to our privacy wishes.
But then how would guys (and the competent girls who mother/babysit the helpless ones) get their ego boosts?
We don't (shouldn't?) need it, and it's not doing us any good to continually receive those.
Seriously though, I sometimes feel like people equate asking questions with being helpless, though I don't see why asking questions is such a bad thing.
It's not, and there is a double-standard actively at work there. I try to squash that where I see it, including members of my sex.
Plus, we both know that half that helplessness is a lazy attempt to get somebody else to do the work, which is a stunt plenty of guys (like most of my teammates) pull.
Yep, endemic. I feel really badly for women stuck in a position such as that when their experience is coupled with the "must work twice as hard to prove myself" mentality. It's the quick path to burnout, and girls who find themselves there need to leave those organizations, depriving it of their productivity.
In my personal experience (assuming competency is adequately distributed amongst the team), sex/gender does exhibit a difference, though it is not a difference in productivity; rather it's a difference in approach. Though I should note that I've observed equally diverse technique in algorithm design/architecture from male collegues who've come from different cultures. I believe this diversity contributes to a richer, more innovative environment.
"Generic programming" came from the 80's. It's great that an MSR dev came up with a mod that then was cool enough to find it's way into.Net 2.0, but you can hardly credit it as true R&D. That would be more like Google's 20% personal project time to implement an old idea for a new product. Any MS employee (IMO, any employee at any tech company, really) should be able to enjoy the opportunity to innovate on their own time and contribute to bettering their company's output.
Don't get me wrong, MSR is probably the only part of the company that I really believe is doing good things (they've done some incredible research into accessibility, something nobody has mentioned here yet, and claimed very little of it for themselves, monetarily).
However, it looks an awful lot like they're currently being used as an ivory-tower cost center for the purpose of furthering a giant patent library to hold over the heads of thousands of tiny startups, as well as legal collateral against competitors. This is an egregious abuse of the patent system and pisses me off so much that... well, so much that I sound like Stallman sometimes...
Erk? Lambdas came from Haskell? What are they teaching kids in college these days...
So, lambda calculus is old. Like really old (the 30's). Its application, via lambda expressions, in computer science is at least 50 years old. Think about Lisp and its descendants, back in the mists of time, from the foundation of functional programming languages.
Crediting MSR (truly, any incarnation of microsoft, which emerged in the mid 70's) is disingenuous at best.
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Though, we could just support OpenShot directly... turns out that they've been running a campaign for almost a month already: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/421164014/openshot-video-editor-for-windows-mac-and-linux
I love seeing different projects supporting each other on Kickstarter. OpenShot is awesome, and this seems like a great way for it to be improved (in addition to the two new platforms, the OpenShot folks have some pretty cool features planned). I have to say, I'm more excited about enhancements to OpenShot, than I am about Cox's new film :-)
Replying to self... I was right the first time, it's $8M from the silent partner(s), for a total of $10M before stretch goals.
Pardon, the outside funding is around $10M, not the total funding goal, crowd-sourcing included. I think there is enough funding to extend the goals beyond the original scope (which I agree would have been impossible to meet, even in the $4-5M range).
Oh, how do you figure? The traditional investment portion was to be some $8M (to bring the budget up to ~$10M), and is supposedly already lined up, modulo the initial funding goal (I believe Chris stated as much during one of the Reddit AMA's).
Moreover, of all the extended goal possibilities in the poll, which do you seriously believe would go toward bringing in new backers? More missions than before? More NPCs? I suspect that the lion's share of backers who would be swayed by those (and the "improved FPS mode"...) have already pledged. Also, are you Seumas on Kickstarter as well? If so, then of all people, you should realize that Linux support has a greatly different level of importance on a crowd-funding campaign (where the Linux community is heavily active) than the wider gaming world.
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Perpenso Calc(tm)... either a speling fail on my part, or it must have been one of those dirty, rotten, thieving, knock-off apps flooding the app store.
Didn't I see the main actor, Woody Harrelson, using Propenso Calc(tm) during the engaging feature-film, RAMPART ?? I believe I did...
I think that would be "Troll troll Troll troll trolls trolls Troll troll"; The Troll trolls that troll other Troll trolls, are themselves trolled by Troll trolls", where a "Troll troll" is a troll that primarily trolls another troll.
Somewhat close to buffalo^8, though it may not actually be true, even if grammatically correct (which it may also not be).
Whoosh... ;-)
Build in a lysine-deficiency into all the breeding females?
Better hope your animals aren't as smart as velociraptors... and be damn careful with that frog DNA!!
It's actually not too bad... give it a shot.
After the first 3-5 papyri with actual text on it, you sort of find a transcription rhythm...
It helps greatly to have familiarity with the Greek alphabet from both a mathematical perspective but also from modern hand-written Greek. It's surprising how many common cosmetic styling permutations are still present today...
Actually an .rpm is a binary with metadata headers and a 'cpio' archive which contains the files.
...is when you get EATEN.
They're like velociraptors that way.
Constant vigilance!
Or, worse, the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_oil substance!!
Also trapped in ice, alien, unfeeling and cold, only waiting for it's chance to colonize the earth, a world it invaded long ago...
Actually, James Bond was the author of Birds of the West Indies, published in the 30's.
Don't you know your ornithology??
While, yes, the "consumer" thing is true, it's taken out of context. It's less of a "code word" than it is general term for anyone who uses mental health services. The full term is "mental health consumer", and refers to an individual who receives mental health services (like counseling, psychiatry, pharmaceuticals, etc., whatever the treatment is that they require). Also, it doesn't only refer to folks who are dealing with a developmental retardation (like Down's, etc.), but it could be clinical depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality, ADHD, or schizophrenia, etc.
The reason it has a more extreme connotation in your brother's experience is likely that during his training, he had a special class (or session at least) to teaching law enforcement how to better deal with situations involving really sick folks, probably dissociated from reality at least partially, probably off of their medications, and probably totally freaked out. In fact, lots of folks really are "consumers" in this sense... if he were to have to shoot & kill a hostile person in the line of duty, he'd likely have mandatory counseling, even if his coping skills are sufficient without the counseling. In that case, he, too would technically be a "mental health consumer". Not everyone using that term to describe themselves is necessarily a very ill person.
Anyway, a short, but reasonably accurate blurb is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health_consumer or, better, lots of good information (though some digging is needed to find good coverage of consumer theory, specifically) is at http://www.nami.org/.
Not to detract from the privacy discussion... but the above discussion is actually somewhat relevant. To sum up the blurb, the term was coined in the '90s by folks who used mental health services to raise awareness of their needs; in particular, focusing on the fact that "mental health consumers" are required for the "mental health service providers" to even exist & stay in business. In particular, it can be really difficult to get attention paid to the quality of your treatment when "people think you're crazy" for example... (off topic, but stigma is a big problem in the mental health field as well). So, their status as consumers of services (being the client, patient, or what have you) can also be empowering in a capitalist sort of way, if applied correctly, and as a large, organized, and influential group.
Similarly, all of us who are exposed to unsavory advertising techniques are, indeed, also consumers of goods and services. We need to find ways to apply that correctly if we wish the market to conform to our privacy wishes.
Ah, I see... it was beef fat.
Clearly it takes a Crazy Man on Fire to dig out the truth.
I stand firm on the Pizza Hut/rennet thing though...
No.
They use chicken fat to fry them at the factory, and then flash-freeze them.
The vegetable oil is to re-fry them (from frozen) at the restaurant.
Hindus were angry because fries were marked as vegetarian food items.
The beef thing was Pizza Hut, and it had to do with bovine calf sources of rennet for the cheese.
Of course, you can feel free to find your own references...
But then how would guys (and the competent girls who mother/babysit the helpless ones) get their ego boosts?
We don't (shouldn't?) need it, and it's not doing us any good to continually receive those.
Seriously though, I sometimes feel like people equate asking questions with being helpless, though I don't see why asking questions is such a bad thing.
It's not, and there is a double-standard actively at work there. I try to squash that where I see it, including members of my sex.
Plus, we both know that half that helplessness is a lazy attempt to get somebody else to do the work, which is a stunt plenty of guys (like most of my teammates) pull.
Yep, endemic. I feel really badly for women stuck in a position such as that when their experience is coupled with the "must work twice as hard to prove myself" mentality. It's the quick path to burnout, and girls who find themselves there need to leave those organizations, depriving it of their productivity.
In my personal experience (assuming competency is adequately distributed amongst the team), sex/gender does exhibit a difference, though it is not a difference in productivity; rather it's a difference in approach. Though I should note that I've observed equally diverse technique in algorithm design/architecture from male collegues who've come from different cultures. I believe this diversity contributes to a richer, more innovative environment.
I'm still looking for that environment, BTW...
"Generic programming" came from the 80's. It's great that an MSR dev came up with a mod that then was cool enough to find it's way into .Net 2.0, but you can hardly credit it as true R&D. That would be more like Google's 20% personal project time to implement an old idea for a new product. Any MS employee (IMO, any employee at any tech company, really) should be able to enjoy the opportunity to innovate on their own time and contribute to bettering their company's output.
Don't get me wrong, MSR is probably the only part of the company that I really believe is doing good things (they've done some incredible research into accessibility, something nobody has mentioned here yet, and claimed very little of it for themselves, monetarily).
However, it looks an awful lot like they're currently being used as an ivory-tower cost center for the purpose of furthering a giant patent library to hold over the heads of thousands of tiny startups, as well as legal collateral against competitors. This is an egregious abuse of the patent system and pisses me off so much that... well, so much that I sound like Stallman sometimes...
Erk? Lambdas came from Haskell? What are they teaching kids in college these days...
So, lambda calculus is old. Like really old (the 30's). Its application, via lambda expressions, in computer science is at least 50 years old. Think about Lisp and its descendants, back in the mists of time, from the foundation of functional programming languages.
Crediting MSR (truly, any incarnation of microsoft, which emerged in the mid 70's) is disingenuous at best.
Hate to point out the obvious, but Via is three times bigger than NVIDIA ($15.5B market cap vs $5B). That might make it a tough sale.
How exactly do you that's not what happened, and Phelps gave them the finger?
It's what I would do if random drug smoking pictures of me existed and were floated by a blackmailer.
Wow, common sense in a Slashdot comment thread! I suppose my post (saying exactly the same thing) should be marked redundant. That makes me happy.