Modern English has been around for 500 years. Any English speaker with a high school education can read anything written in Modern English without too much trouble (if they can't it's because they aren't even trying).
Before that you have Middle English which an English speaker can read with a bit more effort. Reading Middle English requires a great deal more guesswork than reading early Modern English, but for the most part words are recognizable.
Before that you have Old English. This is essentially a foreign language bearing only the most rudimentary resemblance to Modern English.
So why is it that we can still read Middle English and early Modern English? It's because during the Old English period there were almost no efforts to standardize spelling and grammar but in the Middle English period earnest standardization efforts were made and the printing press cemented these efforts at the beginning of the Modern English period.
As another example, consider Greek. Speakers of Modern Greek can read Ancient Greek texts. Efforts to standardize Greek began as early as 200 BC when the practice of marking accents and breathing marks was introduced.
Of course languages change and nothing can stop that. But some languages change faster than others and the rate at which they change is largely dependent on the extent of their standardization. There is something to be gained through this standardization and it can work. I like being able to read Shakespeare without having to study a dead language and regardless of what you think about the French, there are some old things worth reading in French too.
At the Kroger I go to they don't check anyone, ever. Sometimes they ask for a signature for my credit card payment, but 90% of the time they don't even ask me for that.
THis particular system uses a scale that you put the items you've scanned on. If the weight of the items on the scale doesn't equal the weight of the items you've scanned it flags your station and won't let you scan anything else until you fix it.
It handles produce too so I guess for that and other variable weight items they must have data for the minimum and maximum acceptable weights.
Well the official reason is that they have decided they would rather increase the size of their San Francisco studio by adding another development team there instead of continuing carrying the cost of an extra studio. This makes fincancial sense since from what little I know, the main benefit of a game company having studios in different locations is for the purpose of recruiting developers from different regions (e.g. Ubisoft opened a Montreal studio to recruit North American developers) and right now people are far more willing to move for a new job.
However, they are firing 35 people in Austin and hiring 50 in San Francisco. I didn't see anything about them moving anyone from Austin to San Francisco so they must not be satisfied with the team in Austin.
Also, the team in Austin wasn't responsible for Daikatana. That was spawned from John Romero's hedonistic Dallas studio. That closed down long ago. Pretty much everything good that Ion Storm produced came from the Austin studio.
There are of course other factors for a business's security needs. They have to consider things such as whether or not they can support multiple operating systems without significantly increasing their security risk. If they use multiple operating systems they also have to make sure that a compromise in one machine can't be used to gain access to all of the other machines.
It's worth noting that an aircraft with multiple engines is more likely to have some sort of engine failure than an aircraft with one engine of similar design. In general, increasing the number of components in a system increases the chance that at some point one of the components will fail.
Basically if you put your eggs in several different baskets the number of eggs you can expect to lose will be greater than the number of eggs you can expect to lose by putting them in a single well designed basket.
However, putting your eggs in one basket means that any failure is a total failure, even if it is unlikely. Systems with redundancies can be designed so that the chance of an absolute failure is unlikely and so that the damage of partial failures can be limited (i.e. a plane with multiple engines can be designed to still be able to land safely with some of its engines damaged). This is the reason that many people advocate against a so-called monoculture. There aren't any general purpose operating systems with adequate features that we are good enough to be our single basket. Gates thinks that Windows is good enough to be this single basket though there are many who disagree with him.
People do not perceive the issues accurately. Try reading the drivel that gets posted on the class-specific forums for any MMORPG and you'll see that everyone thinks that their class is in horrible shape compared to the others. A democratic MMORPG would embody all of the ills of democracy without any of its benefits.
Nah, the way I'd do it is to give the telescope legs. Then you just make the telescope walk to the spot on the moon facing the region of space you want to look at.
Don't think that's true for pi. It might be true for a normal number. You can find a normal number by picking a random point on a ruler and measuring its location to an infinite accuracy. Good luck on achieving the infinite accuracy bit though.
Well, you could take a sample of naturally occurring carbon and separate its isotopes. Then you could make a mixture of isotopes to fudge the data for the appropriate age. After this, you react your carbon with oxygen to form carbon dioxide. Now here's the tricky part: you have to grow your tree in an enclosed environment containing only the carbon you've altered to have the desired ratio. The room will have to be sterilized to remove any organisms with the naturally occurring ratio of carbon in their cells and you'll have to remove the existing carbon dioxide from the air.
If you do this carefully and leave a negligible amount of natural carbon behind you should get a tree which will carbon test as though it's ancient.
Inmates have rights. They just don't have the full set of rights that others have. Exactly what rights they have would be a much bigger debate.
That said, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that criminals have yielded their right to choose how and where they live. As such, aside from cruel and unusual punishment being forbidden, the state is free to dictate their living conditions. I don't think that disallowing video games, regardless of how they were paid for, is cruel or unusual.
Because some undergraduates are preparing for theoretical work.
Other students may benefit as well. Before the end of a college graduate's career this may be relevent, even if it is a long way down the road. Having some basic understanding of it can't hurt.
I'd like to see a Mario Kart game using the gyroscope feature. You could alter the existing power slide mechanics by using left and right tilt to slide in a turn.
That approach won't work for a lot of games. In these games, people usually don't try to go off and find a place of their own, they go to the popular places and farm the mobs everyone else is farming. In many cases this is because certain spots are genuinely better for gaining experience or getting cash or items (and it's difficult for the developers to prevent any spots from being better than the others without making the game bland). People will even wait in line to get into a group camping a really good spot.
There are other factors as well. Capitol cities, or any place that players use as a base of operations would be heavily overpopulated as well. Also, as an MMOG ages, the lower level areas tend to become less crowded and the higher level areas tend to become more crowded.
Having a massive game world running on a large cluster of servers doesn't help anything if your players only inhabit a fraction of them.
There is a tradeoff between anonymity and accountability. Anonymity is only made possible by creating a situation where one's actions and words can't be traced to a specific person. In a truly anonymous forum, no one can be held responsible for what they do or say because you just can't find them.
We must as a society try to decide where we need to allow anonymity and where we must require accountability. Both of these things are important, but we cannot promote one to the exclusion of the other.
Well, I was mainly responding to the fact that the article submitter wrote "aurora boreali." Aurora borealises comes across as somewhat awkward, but really not much more so than aurorae boreales.
It sort of irks me when people don't know languages but try to guess their way through them. In general it's wisest to just use English plurals, since using foreign plurals in anything other than the simplest cases generally doesn't mix well with English.
DAOC lets people restore deleted characters provided the backups still exist (and they will so long as they haven't created new characters since then).
And the solution for the problem you mentioned is to simply not delete accounts. DAOC says that they reserve the right to delete accounts later, but if they do so they'll announce it on their news site and they'll delete the oldest accounts first.
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EXCUSE ME! The peak was at 6 thank you very much.
Why not penny the doors shut during class?
Modern English has been around for 500 years. Any English speaker with a high school education can read anything written in Modern English without too much trouble (if they can't it's because they aren't even trying).
Before that you have Middle English which an English speaker can read with a bit more effort. Reading Middle English requires a great deal more guesswork than reading early Modern English, but for the most part words are recognizable.
Before that you have Old English. This is essentially a foreign language bearing only the most rudimentary resemblance to Modern English.
So why is it that we can still read Middle English and early Modern English? It's because during the Old English period there were almost no efforts to standardize spelling and grammar but in the Middle English period earnest standardization efforts were made and the printing press cemented these efforts at the beginning of the Modern English period.
As another example, consider Greek. Speakers of Modern Greek can read Ancient Greek texts. Efforts to standardize Greek began as early as 200 BC when the practice of marking accents and breathing marks was introduced.
Of course languages change and nothing can stop that. But some languages change faster than others and the rate at which they change is largely dependent on the extent of their standardization. There is something to be gained through this standardization and it can work. I like being able to read Shakespeare without having to study a dead language and regardless of what you think about the French, there are some old things worth reading in French too.
I've always been curious. How do you domesticate a fox?
At the Kroger I go to they don't check anyone, ever. Sometimes they ask for a signature for my credit card payment, but 90% of the time they don't even ask me for that.
THis particular system uses a scale that you put the items you've scanned on. If the weight of the items on the scale doesn't equal the weight of the items you've scanned it flags your station and won't let you scan anything else until you fix it.
It handles produce too so I guess for that and other variable weight items they must have data for the minimum and maximum acceptable weights.
It seems to work pretty well.
Well the official reason is that they have decided they would rather increase the size of their San Francisco studio by adding another development team there instead of continuing carrying the cost of an extra studio. This makes fincancial sense since from what little I know, the main benefit of a game company having studios in different locations is for the purpose of recruiting developers from different regions (e.g. Ubisoft opened a Montreal studio to recruit North American developers) and right now people are far more willing to move for a new job.
However, they are firing 35 people in Austin and hiring 50 in San Francisco. I didn't see anything about them moving anyone from Austin to San Francisco so they must not be satisfied with the team in Austin.
Also, the team in Austin wasn't responsible for Daikatana. That was spawned from John Romero's hedonistic Dallas studio. That closed down long ago. Pretty much everything good that Ion Storm produced came from the Austin studio.
With a name like that, I expect to see him crossing the Alps on an elephant to invade Italy.
I've got some other things to add.
There are of course other factors for a business's security needs. They have to consider things such as whether or not they can support multiple operating systems without significantly increasing their security risk. If they use multiple operating systems they also have to make sure that a compromise in one machine can't be used to gain access to all of the other machines.
There aren't really any simple answers.
There is some truth in some of what he says.
It's worth noting that an aircraft with multiple engines is more likely to have some sort of engine failure than an aircraft with one engine of similar design. In general, increasing the number of components in a system increases the chance that at some point one of the components will fail.
Basically if you put your eggs in several different baskets the number of eggs you can expect to lose will be greater than the number of eggs you can expect to lose by putting them in a single well designed basket.
However, putting your eggs in one basket means that any failure is a total failure, even if it is unlikely. Systems with redundancies can be designed so that the chance of an absolute failure is unlikely and so that the damage of partial failures can be limited (i.e. a plane with multiple engines can be designed to still be able to land safely with some of its engines damaged). This is the reason that many people advocate against a so-called monoculture. There aren't any general purpose operating systems with adequate features that we are good enough to be our single basket. Gates thinks that Windows is good enough to be this single basket though there are many who disagree with him.
You can call it flexibility but I call it a living death.
People do not perceive the issues accurately. Try reading the drivel that gets posted on the class-specific forums for any MMORPG and you'll see that everyone thinks that their class is in horrible shape compared to the others. A democratic MMORPG would embody all of the ills of democracy without any of its benefits.
Haven't you heard someone say nth? Or ith? Or kth? Well you can just set n, i, or k to 3.
Nah, the way I'd do it is to give the telescope legs. Then you just make the telescope walk to the spot on the moon facing the region of space you want to look at.
Don't think that's true for pi. It might be true for a normal number. You can find a normal number by picking a random point on a ruler and measuring its location to an infinite accuracy. Good luck on achieving the infinite accuracy bit though.
Well, you could take a sample of naturally occurring carbon and separate its isotopes. Then you could make a mixture of isotopes to fudge the data for the appropriate age. After this, you react your carbon with oxygen to form carbon dioxide. Now here's the tricky part: you have to grow your tree in an enclosed environment containing only the carbon you've altered to have the desired ratio. The room will have to be sterilized to remove any organisms with the naturally occurring ratio of carbon in their cells and you'll have to remove the existing carbon dioxide from the air.
If you do this carefully and leave a negligible amount of natural carbon behind you should get a tree which will carbon test as though it's ancient.
This would be horrifically expensive though.
Inmates have rights. They just don't have the full set of rights that others have. Exactly what rights they have would be a much bigger debate.
That said, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that criminals have yielded their right to choose how and where they live. As such, aside from cruel and unusual punishment being forbidden, the state is free to dictate their living conditions. I don't think that disallowing video games, regardless of how they were paid for, is cruel or unusual.
Because some undergraduates are preparing for theoretical work.
Other students may benefit as well. Before the end of a college graduate's career this may be relevent, even if it is a long way down the road. Having some basic understanding of it can't hurt.
I'd like to see a Mario Kart game using the gyroscope feature. You could alter the existing power slide mechanics by using left and right tilt to slide in a turn.
That approach won't work for a lot of games. In these games, people usually don't try to go off and find a place of their own, they go to the popular places and farm the mobs everyone else is farming. In many cases this is because certain spots are genuinely better for gaining experience or getting cash or items (and it's difficult for the developers to prevent any spots from being better than the others without making the game bland). People will even wait in line to get into a group camping a really good spot.
There are other factors as well. Capitol cities, or any place that players use as a base of operations would be heavily overpopulated as well. Also, as an MMOG ages, the lower level areas tend to become less crowded and the higher level areas tend to become more crowded.
Having a massive game world running on a large cluster of servers doesn't help anything if your players only inhabit a fraction of them.
There is a tradeoff between anonymity and accountability. Anonymity is only made possible by creating a situation where one's actions and words can't be traced to a specific person. In a truly anonymous forum, no one can be held responsible for what they do or say because you just can't find them.
We must as a society try to decide where we need to allow anonymity and where we must require accountability. Both of these things are important, but we cannot promote one to the exclusion of the other.
This is not a simple problem.
Well, I was mainly responding to the fact that the article submitter wrote "aurora boreali." Aurora borealises comes across as somewhat awkward, but really not much more so than aurorae boreales.
It sort of irks me when people don't know languages but try to guess their way through them. In general it's wisest to just use English plurals, since using foreign plurals in anything other than the simplest cases generally doesn't mix well with English.
The plural of aurora borealis would be aurorae boreales.
DAOC lets people restore deleted characters provided the backups still exist (and they will so long as they haven't created new characters since then).
And the solution for the problem you mentioned is to simply not delete accounts. DAOC says that they reserve the right to delete accounts later, but if they do so they'll announce it on their news site and they'll delete the oldest accounts first.
Yeah, censorship comes from both sides, but you really need a newer example than Tipper Gore.
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