Fascism, n.: A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Streleski was a math student convicted in the early 80's of killing his PhD advisor with an axe, after spending some unreasonable number of years as a grad student.
Sounds like a clear case of justifiable homicide to me.
The other thing that I've noticed is that they're always described as "three to five years away", and they've generally been like that for the last fifteen to twenty years, and will remain "three to five years away" for the next fifteen to twenty years.
Yeah, but the high-res data worked in all HL1 variants -- given that the HL1 specific models were basically better versions of what shipped with the original game, you'd think Valve would have retained a license to use it further down the track.
Or maybe not... after all, they've been in dispute with Sierra/Vivendi since about that time, so who knows?
Oh, OK. A couple of the reviews I've read are wrong, then. (I haven't bought the game yet, obviously:)
It would have been interesting to see it fully updated with graphics at the level of the main game, of course, but probably not financially worth the effort -- maybe we'll see it as a single-player mod at some point in the future?
Another point being that as soon as companies think that they would gain an increased income stream from continually increasing patent lengths, who's to say that they won't force that through the legislature in the same way that the content companies have been doing for copyright?
You seem to think the welfare of end users is more important than that of developers. Why, exactly? Why is Joe User more important than Joe Developer? If it wasn't for Joe Developer, Joe User wouldn't have software in the first place. What makes you think the user is the more important party here?
If the developer wants to be paid by users for his work, then the needs of those users do become more important. Why should the users pay if they're not getting what they want out of the deal?
Sure, the users need the developer, but that need is reciprocated, otherwise the developer will starve.
To be more accurate, Godfather Part III wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't great and it definitely didn't live up to parts I or II. Even without the baggage of having to follow the first two films, if you look at it as a standalone work it's pretty average.
I wonder whether we'll be able to rate Toy Story 3 so highly...:)
Literally, "conservative" means "not in favour of change", and "radical" means "in favour of change". The words took on their associations to particular ends of the political spectrum in Hanoverian England, I think (the first Parliaments to not just rubber-stamp royal decisions), where the Tories were conservative and the Whigs radical according to the literal definitions... of course things have become really messed up since then, have taken on their own definitions in different countries, etc.
(The Tories at the time were "liberals" -- believers in small government and personal liberty -- while theses days Americans seem to use it as a synonym for socialism, democratic or otherwise.)
Maybe we need a new political vocabulary, since everyone's talking at cross-purposes... and I don't think two dimensions are enough, you can't (usefully) reduce every issue to a binary problem.
... the two major political parties work very differently. The Liberal Party (who are the more *right*-leaning) have a top-down model broadly similar to how both major US parties work - decisions are made by the man/men at the top, and filter down to the underlings whose job it is to make them happen.
The Labor Party have a bottom-up model, where various factions (e.g. trade unions) push ideas, solutions etc. upwards to the man at the top. Infighting within the Labor Party is very much out in the open as the various factions try to win out, whereas infighting in the Liberal Party is almost exclusively carried out behind closed doors.
You do realise this is a completely 180-degree flip from the 1980s, when the Libs allowed conscience votes, and Labor operated more as you describe the Liberals above? I think it has more to do with the party being in government exerting better discipline. Both parties are pretty similar these days anyway.
Oh, and Howard *is* a visionary -- unfortunately his vision involves taking Australia back 50 years. He has always been a great politician, and I mean that in a strictly perjorative sense... very good at making sure that other people are following his agenda. Look how successfully he has changed Australia into a paranoid, racist and selfish nation, elements that I thought we had put well behind us.
If one studio does it when you release their movies early, that I can understand... if they all do it when you release one studio's movie early, I'd be running to the government screaming words like "illegal cartel" and "antitrust" and "restraint of trade".
Indeed -- while I might to some extent agree with the sentiment, there's no way I can take that newspaper seriously. Aren't these the same people who ran the fake British soldier Iraqi abuse photos?
You get information from the test by seeing how the candidate's ordering of the 18 statements varies from the 'Real' ordering of the 18 statements. You see which statements were moved, how far, and in what direction. Based on that, you can tell which parts of a person's value system is unbalanced.
Who defines 'balanced', and how (in other words, what's 'Real')? I'm a bit concerned that people sometimes take the results of these tests as gospel, when I think that no measuring tool or set of statistics can really define a person, or predict with great certainty what they will do in certain situations.
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Fascism, n.: A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Sounds like China to me.
the world's first stable fascist state
What about Singapore?
You forgot "mixed with all of the intelligence and wit that Hollywood can bring to the project."
Maybe they could set up a Paypal account?
Streleski was a math student convicted in the early 80's of killing his PhD advisor with an axe, after spending some unreasonable number of years as a grad student.
Sounds like a clear case of justifiable homicide to me.
Well, have you ever seen Santa Claus and Osama bin Laden together in the same room?
:)
I rest my case.
The other thing that I've noticed is that they're always described as "three to five years away", and they've generally been like that for the last fifteen to twenty years, and will remain "three to five years away" for the next fifteen to twenty years.
Excel is a great tool for certain tasks. Since it is the only data manipulation tool many people know, it gets used for things it really shouldn't.
.xls pseudo-databases at the time.
I saw this linked to from joelonsoftware.com about a year ago.
Made me laugh, because I was suffering from having to convert 20,000 row
Kind of weird to think about the production crew sitting around a police station waiting for a murder to happen.
It's even weirder to think of the other half of the production crew out there killing people if the murder rate drops too low.
OK, so I'm cynical...
Yeah, but the high-res data worked in all HL1 variants -- given that the HL1 specific models were basically better versions of what shipped with the original game, you'd think Valve would have retained a license to use it further down the track.
Or maybe not... after all, they've been in dispute with Sierra/Vivendi since about that time, so who knows?
Oh, OK. A couple of the reviews I've read are wrong, then. (I haven't bought the game yet, obviously :)
It would have been interesting to see it fully updated with graphics at the level of the main game, of course, but probably not financially worth the effort -- maybe we'll see it as a single-player mod at some point in the future?
Yeah, you'd think they could have at least used the high-res graphics pack that shipped with HL: Blue Shift.
That's my opinion of "The Passion of the Christ", but how much money did that make?
Another point being that as soon as companies think that they would gain an increased income stream from continually increasing patent lengths, who's to say that they won't force that through the legislature in the same way that the content companies have been doing for copyright?
You seem to think the welfare of end users is more important than that of developers. Why, exactly? Why is Joe User more important than Joe Developer? If it wasn't for Joe Developer, Joe User wouldn't have software in the first place. What makes you think the user is the more important party here?
If the developer wants to be paid by users for his work, then the needs of those users do become more important. Why should the users pay if they're not getting what they want out of the deal?
Sure, the users need the developer, but that need is reciprocated, otherwise the developer will starve.
To be more accurate, Godfather Part III wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't great and it definitely didn't live up to parts I or II. Even without the baggage of having to follow the first two films, if you look at it as a standalone work it's pretty average.
:)
I wonder whether we'll be able to rate Toy Story 3 so highly...
No, it sucked.
You mean, "when it doesn't get any ad views"?
Literally, "conservative" means "not in favour of change", and "radical" means "in favour of change". The words took on their associations to particular ends of the political spectrum in Hanoverian England, I think (the first Parliaments to not just rubber-stamp royal decisions), where the Tories were conservative and the Whigs radical according to the literal definitions... of course things have become really messed up since then, have taken on their own definitions in different countries, etc.
(The Tories at the time were "liberals" -- believers in small government and personal liberty -- while theses days Americans seem to use it as a synonym for socialism, democratic or otherwise.)
Maybe we need a new political vocabulary, since everyone's talking at cross-purposes... and I don't think two dimensions are enough, you can't (usefully) reduce every issue to a binary problem.
... the two major political parties work very differently. The Liberal Party (who are the more *right*-leaning) have a top-down model broadly similar to how both major US parties work - decisions are made by the man/men at the top, and filter down to the underlings whose job it is to make them happen.
The Labor Party have a bottom-up model, where various factions (e.g. trade unions) push ideas, solutions etc. upwards to the man at the top. Infighting within the Labor Party is very much out in the open as the various factions try to win out, whereas infighting in the Liberal Party is almost exclusively carried out behind closed doors.
You do realise this is a completely 180-degree flip from the 1980s, when the Libs allowed conscience votes, and Labor operated more as you describe the Liberals above? I think it has more to do with the party being in government exerting better discipline. Both parties are pretty similar these days anyway.
Oh, and Howard *is* a visionary -- unfortunately his vision involves taking Australia back 50 years. He has always been a great politician, and I mean that in a strictly perjorative sense... very good at making sure that other people are following his agenda. Look how successfully he has changed Australia into a paranoid, racist and selfish nation, elements that I thought we had put well behind us.
If one studio does it when you release their movies early, that I can understand... if they all do it when you release one studio's movie early, I'd be running to the government screaming words like "illegal cartel" and "antitrust" and "restraint of trade".
Indeed -- while I might to some extent agree with the sentiment, there's no way I can take that newspaper seriously. Aren't these the same people who ran the fake British soldier Iraqi abuse photos?
From most reports, they're actually fans of the Scorsese crime films and The Sopranos. Think we'll see those banned instead?
You get information from the test by seeing how the candidate's ordering of the 18 statements varies from the 'Real' ordering of the 18 statements. You see which statements were moved, how far, and in what direction. Based on that, you can tell which parts of a person's value system is unbalanced.
Who defines 'balanced', and how (in other words, what's 'Real')? I'm a bit concerned that people sometimes take the results of these tests as gospel, when I think that no measuring tool or set of statistics can really define a person, or predict with great certainty what they will do in certain situations.
Somebody with a bit of money should have that one written up and submit it. Imagine the news value if it got through!