the young naive protagnoist is usually not naive or weak. In fact, the protagonist is often portrayed as strong, cocky, and sometimes needs the wisdom of a counterpart (usually a woman) to temper his ego to help him complete his goal.
see - Indiana Jones, Top Gun, (most any Tom Cruise movie), Conan, Star Trek, Tarzan, etc.
1) A young naive protagonist who is resourceful and scrappy but not particularly strong. 2) gets caught up in a fight against an evil (organization, company, religion, empire, conspiracy) 3) requiring him to leave his small village 4) and gradually explore parts of the world on a linear path 5) until he eventually gets free roaming of the entire world 6) and eventually goes to visit outer space or time shift 7) on the way to fight the proto enemy, who turns out not be the real enemy 8) and eventually reaches the real, final enemy
And they all contain a job system, an elemental weakness system (fire, thunder, water, ice, earth, holy), a super move, time consuming optional side quests, etc.
That seems to cover most of the modern 3d Japanese RPGs including Final Fantasy VII-XII, Chrono Cross, Skies of Arcadia, Grandia series, as well as some of the 2d ones (like Legend of Zelda). RPGS within a series have a number of other common elements including chocobos, tonberry and a character named Cid.
And even though they are largely similar, I still love to play them. The structure is the same, but the quality of the implementation makes it worth playing.
sarcasm on - because we all know how badly we want to make sure that the movie stays true to the plot of the source material. We need it to be authentic, with genuine pew pew pew pew noises, white noise explosions, and the fearsome vector line asteroids. Uwe Boll would have screwed that ALL up.
Do they really need a license to make an asteroid movie? Wouldn't it pretty much look exactly like the asteroid scene from Attack of the Clones?
The one requirement I have for DOS is to do bios upgrades to older laptops which still requiring booting to dos. This seems to be one use case which I didn't have much luck with FreeDOS. Is that intentional part of the design (perhaps freedos protects the bios?) or was it just an incompatibility of the bios upgrade tool I have?
In addition, there seems to be something else wrong with his arguement
"To build servers for companies like Facebook, and Amazon, and other people who are operating fairly homogeneous applications, the servers have to be cheap"
Which he later follows up with the following insight
"There's a pretty simple answer for scaling infrastructure. It's, 'Don't be cheap,'"
1) Facebook & Amazon need cheap, power efficient systems 2) Intel and AMD aren't measuring up with processors to power these systems 3) However, Google has systems appropriate for this use (presumably using Intel or AMD processors)
If that's his argument, then it would seem that the real conclusion is that Facebook can't build systems as good as Google's, even though they are using the same processor technology.
If the US nearly went to war because of the nuclear arms being shipped to Cuba, what will the Martians think about a demonstration of military power on an uninhabited moon? Without proper diplomatic relationships between Mars & Earth, I doubt that diplomacy will be able to calm their frayed nerves.
Let's say that any reasonable $60 game provides at least 20 hours of entertainment. That works out to $3 an hour. If you get a solid RPG, that's more like 60 to 80 hours of interactive entertainment that you can enjoy whenever you want at home.
For many of us, buying last year's game drives the price down to $30 or $20 a game, skewing the ratio even further, making it likely you pay somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 cents an hour.
Going to a movie is $12.50 for 90 minutes of non interactive entertainment, which is $8.33/hour and that doesn't even factor in the cost of transportation, snacks, and the trip to olive garden beforehand.
Dollar for dollar, video gaming is cheaper and more convenient than a trip to the movies.
they need to demonstrate to investors that they are indeed a money making business that will continue to make a lot of money in the future. Regardless of their cash position, if the investors leave, who already got shaky feelings from vista, then the market cap of the whole company goes down and ballmer will go looking for a job.
Now whether higher prices will help them make their sales goals, that's yet to be seen. In the short term, perhaps yes, with all the built in sales to the OEMs. In the long term, I bet the retail sales trail the oem sales for a while, so this might have been a pretty good plan overall anyways.
Then will the same groups go on to shut down Better Homes, Oprah, Family Circle and Good Housekeeping magazines? These magazines are focused on women and only publish articles on calorie counting, cooking tips, recipies, and shopping. Won't the same groups think these magazines stereotype women as being stay at home moms? Or does it simply address the needs of a particular marketing segment?
I found the game to be beautiful, visually stunning, but tedious and boring. Wandering around vast landscapes to find some hidden monster was an exercise is just pushing the directional buttons and watching the CGI landscape move by in order to fight a series of boss battles.
I hope the movie makers do something better than creating a visually stunning but ultimately boring film to watch CGI landscapes.
I'd say that it's still a win/win for MSFT. ON one hand, they're getting XP prices slashed up because of the netbook experience. But instead of just giving away XP, they can now have OEMs install and pay for the latest operating system, but just give them an option to downgrade back to older OSs. How many times do you get to collect current market prices on software that came out 8 years ago? You wouldn't find that happening in the games market or most other applications market.
Message encrypted using DNA (actually the message was encoded in DNA.
Still one of my favorite scenes when the Klingons express their disappointment to find out that the result of all their work is a new age message of peace.
Digital cameras largely carry over the conventions of film, such as ISO film speed. But these notions that higher speed "film" equals noise/grain are going out the window, as newer cameras are able to achiever clean pictures that were impossible to do with film.
Similar notions go that exposure is rated the same way that film cameras did, such as stops above/below aperature+shutter speed.
Suppose if Digital cameras were invented without these notions of what film cameras did. Wouldn't there be a better way to measure aperature, shutter speed, exposure, film speed, etc than the conventions that we have now? Couldn't digital cameras redesign the scales so that they aren't measured in fractions of seconds or tenths of a decimal?
Clicking the link on Vasco in the story just takes you to their home page, but it does not provide any additional content regarding the story on Malware toolkits.
but I think it has to do more with poorly trained employees and managers who don't care about the top line revenue of the sale, and rather focused on driving just the attachment rate. I don't think this is limited to Office Depot because you can go to any car dealer and most electronic shops and get the same story.
Something about this story doesn't add up though. From the article "We were surprised by how aggressively the sales associate tried to convince us not to buy the system and then, when we said we still wanted it, how aggressively he tried to convince us to buy its corresponding tech services.". I thought the point the article is supposed to be making is that the rep will say it's out of stock AFTER they refuse the corresponding tech services, not before.
Now the people who call my cell phone warning me "This is the second notice that your car warranty has expired", well those people ARE lying.
Healthcare is dominated by application vendors who each make their own megaplatform for healthcare records. Cerner, Meditech, Siemens, et al. are all trying to keep as much of their system closed as possible, and aren't particularly interested in opening it up to third party systems. They don't particularly want open interfaces, their goal is to keep their customer locked in as much as possible.
So the healthcare IT companies get what they want, i.e. a bigger push for electronic records, selling the software they already have.
The stimulas package isn't going to add an open spec for EMR because nobody in the healthcare industry is bringing it up that they want one.
In general I think that although standard key exchange methods are theoretically less secure than quantum key exchanges, at least the standard key exchange methods are a) well understood, b) tested and c) commercially supported.
Putting highly secret documents in the hands of a technology made by college students working on PHD thesis seems to be a premature use of this technology.
It's not the technology itself, but the implementation of the technology that I'd worry about. And cost doesn't seem to be a good reason to take a gamble.
The used game business is eventually going to go the way of the dinosaur eventually. As most gaming devices are net connected now, game developers figured out the smart thing to do is not to make the whole game deliverable on a CD, but go client-server where part of the game is on a server. Now you got companies making money on the service delivery, like xbox, or getting part of the game experience online, such as WOW. And GTAIV's episodic content is the first step from taking that franchise in the same direction.
The customers are demanding an online experience, primarily for the interactivity with other players. But slowly, the content is moving less from a packaged box to a gaming software as a service, and it won't matter how many times you actually sell the cd itself. Korea, for example, is nearly already there with the way that their PC games are distributed for free.
Do you need a Kindle to use this iphone app? The article only talks about the benefits of using the app with the kindle, but for all of those that don't have one, can we use the app and buy ebooks on the amazon store?
Except that you ignore the fact that the H1-B's arent' competing with you on the open market. The h1-b must work there, or leave the country within 10 days if they can't find a new position.
So the H1-B's are working here with a neck in the guillotine - work hard, accept the conditions, and take the pay they are given or go home. They don't have a choice of finding another job they may be highly qualified for without having to get a sponsor.
So employers fill these slots with employees who will work longer and work cheaper in order to stay in the US. Does that really sound like you have a fair shot of getting that job just because you're more qualified.
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the young naive protagnoist is usually not naive or weak. In fact, the protagonist is often portrayed as strong, cocky, and sometimes needs the wisdom of a counterpart (usually a woman) to temper his ego to help him complete his goal.
see - Indiana Jones, Top Gun, (most any Tom Cruise movie), Conan, Star Trek, Tarzan, etc.
The Plot
1) A young naive protagonist who is resourceful and scrappy but not particularly strong.
2) gets caught up in a fight against an evil (organization, company, religion, empire, conspiracy)
3) requiring him to leave his small village
4) and gradually explore parts of the world on a linear path
5) until he eventually gets free roaming of the entire world
6) and eventually goes to visit outer space or time shift
7) on the way to fight the proto enemy, who turns out not be the real enemy
8) and eventually reaches the real, final enemy
And they all contain a job system, an elemental weakness system (fire, thunder, water, ice, earth, holy), a super move, time consuming optional side quests, etc.
That seems to cover most of the modern 3d Japanese RPGs including Final Fantasy VII-XII, Chrono Cross, Skies of Arcadia, Grandia series, as well as some of the 2d ones (like Legend of Zelda). RPGS within a series have a number of other common elements including chocobos, tonberry and a character named Cid.
And even though they are largely similar, I still love to play them. The structure is the same, but the quality of the implementation makes it worth playing.
sarcasm on - because we all know how badly we want to make sure that the movie stays true to the plot of the source material. We need it to be authentic, with genuine pew pew pew pew noises, white noise explosions, and the fearsome vector line asteroids. Uwe Boll would have screwed that ALL up.
Do they really need a license to make an asteroid movie? Wouldn't it pretty much look exactly like the asteroid scene from Attack of the Clones?
The one requirement I have for DOS is to do bios upgrades to older laptops which still requiring booting to dos. This seems to be one use case which I didn't have much luck with FreeDOS. Is that intentional part of the design (perhaps freedos protects the bios?) or was it just an incompatibility of the bios upgrade tool I have?
In addition, there seems to be something else wrong with his arguement
"To build servers for companies like Facebook, and Amazon, and other people who are operating fairly homogeneous applications, the servers have to be cheap"
Which he later follows up with the following insight
"There's a pretty simple answer for scaling infrastructure. It's, 'Don't be cheap,'"
so which one is it?
1) Facebook & Amazon need cheap, power efficient systems
2) Intel and AMD aren't measuring up with processors to power these systems
3) However, Google has systems appropriate for this use (presumably using Intel or AMD processors)
If that's his argument, then it would seem that the real conclusion is that Facebook can't build systems as good as Google's, even though they are using the same processor technology.
If the US nearly went to war because of the nuclear arms being shipped to Cuba, what will the Martians think about a demonstration of military power on an uninhabited moon? Without proper diplomatic relationships between Mars & Earth, I doubt that diplomacy will be able to calm their frayed nerves.
It sounds like it is used to treat the effects of the symptoms of parkison's. It doesn't do anything to treat Parkisons itself.
Let's say that any reasonable $60 game provides at least 20 hours of entertainment. That works out to $3 an hour. If you get a solid RPG, that's more like 60 to 80 hours of interactive entertainment that you can enjoy whenever you want at home.
For many of us, buying last year's game drives the price down to $30 or $20 a game, skewing the ratio even further, making it likely you pay somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 cents an hour.
Going to a movie is $12.50 for 90 minutes of non interactive entertainment, which is $8.33/hour and that doesn't even factor in the cost of transportation, snacks, and the trip to olive garden beforehand.
Dollar for dollar, video gaming is cheaper and more convenient than a trip to the movies.
they need to demonstrate to investors that they are indeed a money making business that will continue to make a lot of money in the future. Regardless of their cash position, if the investors leave, who already got shaky feelings from vista, then the market cap of the whole company goes down and ballmer will go looking for a job.
Now whether higher prices will help them make their sales goals, that's yet to be seen. In the short term, perhaps yes, with all the built in sales to the OEMs. In the long term, I bet the retail sales trail the oem sales for a while, so this might have been a pretty good plan overall anyways.
Then will the same groups go on to shut down Better Homes, Oprah, Family Circle and Good Housekeeping magazines? These magazines are focused on women and only publish articles on calorie counting, cooking tips, recipies, and shopping. Won't the same groups think these magazines stereotype women as being stay at home moms? Or does it simply address the needs of a particular marketing segment?
I would guess the penalties for the destruction of evidence and the manufacturing of new evidence would land you in significantly more trouble, no?
the encryption keys for the hard drive?
I found the game to be beautiful, visually stunning, but tedious and boring. Wandering around vast landscapes to find some hidden monster was an exercise is just pushing the directional buttons and watching the CGI landscape move by in order to fight a series of boss battles.
I hope the movie makers do something better than creating a visually stunning but ultimately boring film to watch CGI landscapes.
I'd say that it's still a win/win for MSFT. ON one hand, they're getting XP prices slashed up because of the netbook experience. But instead of just giving away XP, they can now have OEMs install and pay for the latest operating system, but just give them an option to downgrade back to older OSs. How many times do you get to collect current market prices on software that came out 8 years ago? You wouldn't find that happening in the games market or most other applications market.
The game is called "Return to Zork". There is no "The" in the front.
Star Trek Next Generation, Season 6, "The Chase"
Message encrypted using DNA (actually the message was encoded in DNA.
Still one of my favorite scenes when the Klingons express their disappointment to find out that the result of all their work is a new age message of peace.
Digital cameras largely carry over the conventions of film, such as ISO film speed. But these notions that higher speed "film" equals noise/grain are going out the window, as newer cameras are able to achiever clean pictures that were impossible to do with film.
Similar notions go that exposure is rated the same way that film cameras did, such as stops above/below aperature+shutter speed.
Suppose if Digital cameras were invented without these notions of what film cameras did. Wouldn't there be a better way to measure aperature, shutter speed, exposure, film speed, etc than the conventions that we have now? Couldn't digital cameras redesign the scales so that they aren't measured in fractions of seconds or tenths of a decimal?
Clicking the link on Vasco in the story just takes you to their home page, but it does not provide any additional content regarding the story on Malware toolkits.
but I think it has to do more with poorly trained employees and managers who don't care about the top line revenue of the sale, and rather focused on driving just the attachment rate. I don't think this is limited to Office Depot because you can go to any car dealer and most electronic shops and get the same story.
Something about this story doesn't add up though. From the article "We were surprised by how aggressively the sales associate tried to convince us not to buy the system and then, when we said we still wanted it, how aggressively he tried to convince us to buy its corresponding tech services.". I thought the point the article is supposed to be making is that the rep will say it's out of stock AFTER they refuse the corresponding tech services, not before.
Now the people who call my cell phone warning me "This is the second notice that your car warranty has expired", well those people ARE lying.
Healthcare is dominated by application vendors who each make their own megaplatform for healthcare records. Cerner, Meditech, Siemens, et al. are all trying to keep as much of their system closed as possible, and aren't particularly interested in opening it up to third party systems. They don't particularly want open interfaces, their goal is to keep their customer locked in as much as possible.
So the healthcare IT companies get what they want, i.e. a bigger push for electronic records, selling the software they already have.
The stimulas package isn't going to add an open spec for EMR because nobody in the healthcare industry is bringing it up that they want one.
In general I think that although standard key exchange methods are theoretically less secure than quantum key exchanges, at least the standard key exchange methods are a) well understood, b) tested and c) commercially supported.
Putting highly secret documents in the hands of a technology made by college students working on PHD thesis seems to be a premature use of this technology.
It's not the technology itself, but the implementation of the technology that I'd worry about. And cost doesn't seem to be a good reason to take a gamble.
The used game business is eventually going to go the way of the dinosaur eventually. As most gaming devices are net connected now, game developers figured out the smart thing to do is not to make the whole game deliverable on a CD, but go client-server where part of the game is on a server. Now you got companies making money on the service delivery, like xbox, or getting part of the game experience online, such as WOW. And GTAIV's episodic content is the first step from taking that franchise in the same direction.
The customers are demanding an online experience, primarily for the interactivity with other players. But slowly, the content is moving less from a packaged box to a gaming software as a service, and it won't matter how many times you actually sell the cd itself. Korea, for example, is nearly already there with the way that their PC games are distributed for free.
Do you need a Kindle to use this iphone app? The article only talks about the benefits of using the app with the kindle, but for all of those that don't have one, can we use the app and buy ebooks on the amazon store?
Except that you ignore the fact that the H1-B's arent' competing with you on the open market. The h1-b must work there, or leave the country within 10 days if they can't find a new position.
So the H1-B's are working here with a neck in the guillotine - work hard, accept the conditions, and take the pay they are given or go home. They don't have a choice of finding another job they may be highly qualified for without having to get a sponsor.
So employers fill these slots with employees who will work longer and work cheaper in order to stay in the US. Does that really sound like you have a fair shot of getting that job just because you're more qualified.