so instead of reading the fairest news possible, you get your information from [in your words] biased sources to "balance" things out?
I think his point was that you're not going to find unbiased news.
As an extreme example, imagine aliens reading/watching our news and finding that there was no mention of all the life such as trees or bacteria being destroyed by bombs. I think anyone telling any story has to rely on things we take for granted, like language and our world view. By being conscious of the biases, you can sample stories and take each with the appropriate grain of salt.
Part of the whole fireworks experience for me, and I'm sure for others, is the bombarding of the senses: sight, sound, and even smell.
By contrast, this weekend in Ferney-Voltaire, France (next to Geneva, Switzerland), where I'm living for now, I saw one of the most beautiful fireworks displays. Normally I would've agreed with what you said about the "bombarding of the senses" being the great part of fireworks. However, this one was great despite not being big and loud. It took place on the front steps of the town hall. After a minute or so of faster music, it would slow down to really emotional opera music while bright red, orange, or purple "sparklers" hooked onto the front of the building gushed out bright sparks. I stood there with my mouth hanging open, the occasional shiver running down my spine. It wasn't a very big crowd, on order of a thousand or two, so it had a really intimate feel, and standing beside a statue of Voltaire (this town is where he stayed the last part of his life), I had a feeling of being part of the continuing history of France. Hard to describe I guess, but very beautiful.
Make it a bit more like the real world - if the Zulus need chromium and I have all the chromium mines, then no matter what their prediliction towards war, if they want to build their railroads they'd better not piss me off!
If I was a Zulu, your having all the chromium would be a motivation to attack you.
It's called a "dhoti". Allegedly more Indian, although you'd be hard-pressed to find a under-40 Indian wear one outside of a religious ceremony or political gathering.
Whereas you see people in tights in the USA all the time?:)
I still can't comprehend the reasoning that would let a belligerent dictator in North Korea say straight-forwardly and without repercussion that he is in fact developing nuclear weapons and will use them against the USA; whereas, in Iraq, a dictator who we originally propped up, who claimed to not be developing nuclear weapons, had his country invaded. I would have been fully for a war against North Korea. (Not now, not with Bush in office.)
Civ3 had a pretty rocky development cycle. We lost all of our leads after about a year and we also had almost 100% turnover within the programming department.
And that turned out to be a great game, so I'm really looking forward to Civ 4. However, I'm not sure what to think about:
Drop unfun legacy (pollution, rioting, maintenance, corruption/waste)
Although there might be less annoying things, but those annoying things are part of what makes the game.
I'd say the number of female developers has little to do with anything. Take Civilization. Or most anything put out by Sid Meier. That is the point: I think it takes a focal point like a Sid Meier with a great idea to get the job done, not a committee built on diversity. And the coders, they can do things like game physics or UI mechanics (as opposed to the design of the UI), but when it comes to the game those parts are mostly standard things across various games, and it doesn't matter whether the coder if male or female.
I think it's a conflict of interest because they might intentionally develop exploitable software in order to keep their anti-virus software going (similar "reasoning" to the idea that anti-virus software makers might be the ones who actually make viruses). OTOH, if they keep making crappy software, then it will get a bad reputation for being insecure. Oh, wait..
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Great, SPF now not only protects from the sun, but from spam as well. I bet we could get XML involved somehow, too.
...but does it take XML?
Well said.
I think his point was that you're not going to find unbiased news.
As an extreme example, imagine aliens reading/watching our news and finding that there was no mention of all the life such as trees or bacteria being destroyed by bombs. I think anyone telling any story has to rely on things we take for granted, like language and our world view. By being conscious of the biases, you can sample stories and take each with the appropriate grain of salt.
I still can't comprehend the reasoning that would let a belligerent dictator in North Korea say straight-forwardly and without repercussion that he is in fact developing nuclear weapons and will use them against the USA; whereas, in Iraq, a dictator who we originally propped up, who claimed to not be developing nuclear weapons, had his country invaded. I would have been fully for a war against North Korea. (Not now, not with Bush in office.)
Would we claim it was Canadian propaganda?
You're right, I didn't put enough thought into my joke. :)
Probably in a discount bin for like $5, too.
or cat /dev/random onto /dev/dsp :)
Why not just pipe sounds from your office into the phone? Pretend it is a piece from John Cage.
How many non geekgirls read News For Nerds?
I couldn't run several games on WinXP that had worked before.
Because I don't install random applications which would contain spyware.
I do quite fine without Adaware, and I have no spyware.
I'd say the number of female developers has little to do with anything. Take Civilization. Or most anything put out by Sid Meier. That is the point: I think it takes a focal point like a Sid Meier with a great idea to get the job done, not a committee built on diversity. And the coders, they can do things like game physics or UI mechanics (as opposed to the design of the UI), but when it comes to the game those parts are mostly standard things across various games, and it doesn't matter whether the coder if male or female.
I think it's a conflict of interest because they might intentionally develop exploitable software in order to keep their anti-virus software going (similar "reasoning" to the idea that anti-virus software makers might be the ones who actually make viruses). OTOH, if they keep making crappy software, then it will get a bad reputation for being insecure. Oh, wait..