Dude, it happens. While I posted some vitriol a few posts up, your English isn't THAT horrible.
Anyway, this kind of misrepresentation can't be all that uncommon. You cannot create a game and say "Well, we really made a shallow shell of a game around a solid imaginative core made by someone only related to us by our checkbook. Go us!".
Bull shit. I am not a native English speaker. I have never been to a country where people speak English natively, nor a region where it is a common second language.
I speak the language fluently. I don't know all appropriate idioms for every situation, but I have a pretty good idea of when I am using one, and care enough about what I write to look up words and phrases so I don't look like a complete idiot (like the use of the word 'idiom' here). If someone else does not take the time to do the same, then why should I take the time to read them?
Put another way: Your goal as a writer (any kind of writer) is to carry your message across. To carry your message across well, we standardize on certain things like the meaning of words and phrases. If you can't hold to that standard, your message-transfer is hindered, and you're a bad writer.
Just out of curiosity, do you laugh at "Everybody loves Raymond"? Does anybody? I have recently watched a full episode of that show, and on only one occasion cracked the faintest smile. It is so incredibly not funny, I am honestly surprised that even the laughter-tape can keep laughing. Yet, apparently, it does reasonably well in the US.
While some clips in AFV were funny, I wouldn't say it was wet-your-pants hilarious. Is it American humor?
Not really a good progression, but the idea is there: I seriously can't see why people are so much against releasing any kind of info, when the cops are going after rapists.. I seriously can't see why people are so much against releasing any kind of info, when the cops are going after homosexuals.. I seriously can't see why people are so much against releasing any kind of info, when the cops are going after sodomists.. I seriously can't see why people are so much against releasing any kind of info, when the cops are going after communists.. I seriously can't see why people are so much against releasing any kind of info, when the cops are going after subversives..
A beta version has all the features that the final should have, has them in approximately the right spot, and is about bug-hunting.
Playing with an OS is not working with it. It shows you nothing of how the OS behaves, and only allows you to give the most shallow of reviews (e.g. "Well, it started up fine, and it looked nice, and then I shut it down again."). Actually subjecting it to real-life use brings out problems.
There are loads of animals that these things get tested on before the jump is made to human testing. If animals die or are poorly affected, humans should not be tested. So there should be some idea about what the drug is supposed to do, and the given results make me wonder if the regular, long process was followed..
As for saying they don't legally have to... If you sign a waiver for me that says I can help you kill yourself, I'm still up for manslaughter or murder at the end of the day, regardless of what the waiver said. Waivers that say "And if we fuck up your life, we'll reject all responsibility" is, AFAIK, just wasted paper as soon as you hit the legal system.
People give up far too many of their legal rights because they feel they've "signed them away". The law stands above contracts. Same with warranty, at least here in the Netherlands. Lots of places sell 'extended' warranty from the basic 1 year, except they don't mention that for many products the legal minimum warranty is two years, and for durable products you can expect factory-warranty for a reasonable lifespan (a fridge would be in the order of half a dozen years).
American gasoline doesn't have nearly the tax payload that gasoline in other countries does. Effects of that can be seen with oil-prices; American gas prices fluctuate relatively wildly compared to European prices. Gas in Holland costs around US$6.70 per US gallon, and that's cheap.
The US should probably be given up as the place to deploy better solutions for fuel economy. It's hard to lay down a proper infrastructure in the more sparsely populated areas, the people are generally too pig-headed to change (yes, you can travel long distances in comfort in cars that don't weigh four metric tons or more. And if you'd actually live near where you wanted to be, you wouldn't even have to), and the current power and fuel production companies are too heavily tied into government for government to force the issue.
No, let's just let Europe or Asia lead, and let the Americans catch up if and when.
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In the Netherlands, any phone you buy with a plan may be sim-locked, but after a year the provider is obligated to remove the lock. And hell, my MDA Vario was unlocked about 3 hours after I got it, and this was because I got it at work.
This idea of mobile carriers providing tech-support for phones is just nutzoid, as is the idea of carrier-monopoly on a phone type. Carriers focus on services, and other stores can focus on selling phones (with or without subscription).
That depends on your country of residence. Dutch Dells, even Dimension series, are not shipped with nearly as much garbage as the American versions seem to be. A few trial versions, but nothing overly heinous.
It seems Americans get a raw deal on this sort of thing anyway. Try installing AOL Instant Messenger (popular in the US) and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (mostly popular in Europe). AOL is an absolute nightmare, and I wish I had a device that allowed me to stab people in the face over the internet; the person who invents that will become rich and famous. MSN is slick, quick and easy.
According to the evil overlord list, it's not impossible to employ some sort of timing device. If it absolutely necessary to use one, set it to go off at '117', when the hero is just getting his plan into action.
Hope you see my point then. That if you weaken any of the Fundamental Human Rights they all suffer. And whether or not your government is oppressing you or not, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, to defend oneself against those who would use Force against you whether they be common brigands or a government run amok, are Fundamental Human Rights everywhere. It is no coincidence that the only nation state to enshrine ALL of the basic Human Rights in our highest laws is also the most free and prosperous nation in history. Doing do has allowed our system of government to withstand a century of determined effort to overthrow it by Socialism.
You must be trolling. The right to bear arms is an American one, not an intrinsic human right. It's no coincidence that the US has the largest number of murders per capita either.
Besides that, when you live in a nation that violates human rights on the scale of the US, what with its torture camps/secret prisons, its kidnapping and forced deportation of innocent citizens, you might not want to flaunt your freedom, prosperity and adherence to human rights so much.
Oracle E-Business Suite. a.k.a.: "Look on my works, ye mighty, and have a chuckle at my goddamn expense."
Singlehandedly destroyed our call center response times (was at under 1m:00s on a bad day, under 0m:15s on a good day, promptly jumped up to about 10m:00s, and there were no more good days), and after running it for about 8 months now, it still regularly has to go down for essential upgrades. Part of that is, no doubt, the company's IT bungling and inadequate testing, but Oracle's eBS sucks.
It's horribly designed, it's slow as all hell in anything related to retrieving information (which, y'know, they might be good at, being database folks), and it's a major resource hog. Also, it's fucking designed for an 800x600 resolution, WHEN ALL CS-rep PC'S HAVE 1280x1024 SCREENS!! And the screens don't stretch, they have fixed geometry!
I swear, if someone, some day, walks up to me and says "Hi, I used to work on Oracle's E-Busine", that's as far as they'd get before I punch their stinking face in.
I'd imagine all of New York City's major buildings would require Age Verification System within about 15 seconds of launch of this feature. You just can't trust people not to mess with the world...
I can give an example of a language where it isn't spoken as two sounds: Japanese. But hey, maybe the guys at Nintendo didn't know that; you can't expect those guys to know a language like Japanese.
I can see the support groups now: "Hi, I'm John, and it's been three days since I last played with my wee."
Nintend'oh dumping a name like 'Revolution' for 'Wii' strikes me as worse than Microsoft dumping 'MSN' for 'Windows Live Messenger', when the verb 'to chat' in some languages is 'to msn'.
Beyond being able to make marks on a piece of paper, the ability to draw is not something learned easily. It requires a huge extension to your personal knowledge base, same as 3D modelling. The main difference is the tools used.
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Yeah. I'm Dutch by the way, and you should seek professional help.
Dude, it happens. While I posted some vitriol a few posts up, your English isn't THAT horrible.
Anyway, this kind of misrepresentation can't be all that uncommon. You cannot create a game and say "Well, we really made a shallow shell of a game around a solid imaginative core made by someone only related to us by our checkbook. Go us!".
Bull shit. I am not a native English speaker. I have never been to a country where people speak English natively, nor a region where it is a common second language.
I speak the language fluently. I don't know all appropriate idioms for every situation, but I have a pretty good idea of when I am using one, and care enough about what I write to look up words and phrases so I don't look like a complete idiot (like the use of the word 'idiom' here). If someone else does not take the time to do the same, then why should I take the time to read them?
Put another way: Your goal as a writer (any kind of writer) is to carry your message across. To carry your message across well, we standardize on certain things like the meaning of words and phrases. If you can't hold to that standard, your message-transfer is hindered, and you're a bad writer.
Just out of curiosity, do you laugh at "Everybody loves Raymond"? Does anybody? I have recently watched a full episode of that show, and on only one occasion cracked the faintest smile. It is so incredibly not funny, I am honestly surprised that even the laughter-tape can keep laughing. Yet, apparently, it does reasonably well in the US.
While some clips in AFV were funny, I wouldn't say it was wet-your-pants hilarious. Is it American humor?
Zoe: "Isn't the Bible kinda specific about killin'?"
Book: "Yes, but it is somewhat fuzzy in the area of kneecaps."
When there were three planets, if one collided with its neighbour, we'd have one planet left, not two. Lying bastard.
Besides, how can Nr. 2 get *bored* at seeing a couple of planets crash together, anyway?
Your nursery rhyme is full of factual, logical and practical errors. I trust you will see to the necessary changes.
Not really a good progression, but the idea is there:
I seriously can't see why people are so much against releasing any kind of info, when the cops are going after rapists..
I seriously can't see why people are so much against releasing any kind of info, when the cops are going after homosexuals..
I seriously can't see why people are so much against releasing any kind of info, when the cops are going after sodomists..
I seriously can't see why people are so much against releasing any kind of info, when the cops are going after communists..
I seriously can't see why people are so much against releasing any kind of info, when the cops are going after subversives..
People do not build their lives around disaster. At least, not if they want to enjoy the ride.
Tremendous work ethic has nothing to do with tremendous work hours. Virtual slave labor does, oddly.
The fact that they CAN work those hours is commendable of them, but the fact that they apparently have to is not a positive thing.
A beta version has all the features that the final should have, has them in approximately the right spot, and is about bug-hunting.
Playing with an OS is not working with it. It shows you nothing of how the OS behaves, and only allows you to give the most shallow of reviews (e.g. "Well, it started up fine, and it looked nice, and then I shut it down again."). Actually subjecting it to real-life use brings out problems.
There are loads of animals that these things get tested on before the jump is made to human testing. If animals die or are poorly affected, humans should not be tested. So there should be some idea about what the drug is supposed to do, and the given results make me wonder if the regular, long process was followed..
As for saying they don't legally have to... If you sign a waiver for me that says I can help you kill yourself, I'm still up for manslaughter or murder at the end of the day, regardless of what the waiver said. Waivers that say "And if we fuck up your life, we'll reject all responsibility" is, AFAIK, just wasted paper as soon as you hit the legal system.
People give up far too many of their legal rights because they feel they've "signed them away". The law stands above contracts. Same with warranty, at least here in the Netherlands. Lots of places sell 'extended' warranty from the basic 1 year, except they don't mention that for many products the legal minimum warranty is two years, and for durable products you can expect factory-warranty for a reasonable lifespan (a fridge would be in the order of half a dozen years).
American gasoline doesn't have nearly the tax payload that gasoline in other countries does. Effects of that can be seen with oil-prices; American gas prices fluctuate relatively wildly compared to European prices. Gas in Holland costs around US$6.70 per US gallon, and that's cheap.
The US should probably be given up as the place to deploy better solutions for fuel economy. It's hard to lay down a proper infrastructure in the more sparsely populated areas, the people are generally too pig-headed to change (yes, you can travel long distances in comfort in cars that don't weigh four metric tons or more. And if you'd actually live near where you wanted to be, you wouldn't even have to), and the current power and fuel production companies are too heavily tied into government for government to force the issue.
No, let's just let Europe or Asia lead, and let the Americans catch up if and when.
In the Netherlands, any phone you buy with a plan may be sim-locked, but after a year the provider is obligated to remove the lock. And hell, my MDA Vario was unlocked about 3 hours after I got it, and this was because I got it at work.
This idea of mobile carriers providing tech-support for phones is just nutzoid, as is the idea of carrier-monopoly on a phone type. Carriers focus on services, and other stores can focus on selling phones (with or without subscription).
Hell, Forsaken (the Descent-alike) had portals too, that did odd things. Closest thing you could get to a MUD's magic maze.
Gravity, not so much.
That depends on your country of residence. Dutch Dells, even Dimension series, are not shipped with nearly as much garbage as the American versions seem to be. A few trial versions, but nothing overly heinous.
It seems Americans get a raw deal on this sort of thing anyway. Try installing AOL Instant Messenger (popular in the US) and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (mostly popular in Europe). AOL is an absolute nightmare, and I wish I had a device that allowed me to stab people in the face over the internet; the person who invents that will become rich and famous. MSN is slick, quick and easy.
According to the evil overlord list, it's not impossible to employ some sort of timing device. If it absolutely necessary to use one, set it to go off at '117', when the hero is just getting his plan into action.
You must be trolling. The right to bear arms is an American one, not an intrinsic human right. It's no coincidence that the US has the largest number of murders per capita either.
Besides that, when you live in a nation that violates human rights on the scale of the US, what with its torture camps/secret prisons, its kidnapping and forced deportation of innocent citizens, you might not want to flaunt your freedom, prosperity and adherence to human rights so much.
If the new owners admit they realize it belongs to you, but won't give it back, I'd say so. Maybe not legally, but certainly morally.
Oracle E-Business Suite.
a.k.a.: "Look on my works, ye mighty, and have a chuckle at my goddamn expense."
Singlehandedly destroyed our call center response times (was at under 1m:00s on a bad day, under 0m:15s on a good day, promptly jumped up to about 10m:00s, and there were no more good days), and after running it for about 8 months now, it still regularly has to go down for essential upgrades. Part of that is, no doubt, the company's IT bungling and inadequate testing, but Oracle's eBS sucks.
It's horribly designed, it's slow as all hell in anything related to retrieving information (which, y'know, they might be good at, being database folks), and it's a major resource hog. Also, it's fucking designed for an 800x600 resolution, WHEN ALL CS-rep PC'S HAVE 1280x1024 SCREENS!! And the screens don't stretch, they have fixed geometry!
I swear, if someone, some day, walks up to me and says "Hi, I used to work on Oracle's E-Busine", that's as far as they'd get before I punch their stinking face in.
House without toilet is uncanny.
Yes, we read the same sites.
I'd imagine all of New York City's major buildings would require Age Verification System within about 15 seconds of launch of this feature. You just can't trust people not to mess with the world...
I can give an example of a language where it isn't spoken as two sounds: Japanese. But hey, maybe the guys at Nintendo didn't know that; you can't expect those guys to know a language like Japanese.
I can see the support groups now:
"Hi, I'm John, and it's been three days since I last played with my wee."
Nintend'oh dumping a name like 'Revolution' for 'Wii' strikes me as worse than Microsoft dumping 'MSN' for 'Windows Live Messenger', when the verb 'to chat' in some languages is 'to msn'.
Beyond being able to make marks on a piece of paper, the ability to draw is not something learned easily. It requires a huge extension to your personal knowledge base, same as 3D modelling. The main difference is the tools used.
HDMI will also be required for viewing HDTV broadcasts in the Netherlands over cable. Once it gets here.
I see HDMI appearing on many more products now, all of a sudden.