Can we please at least try to demonstrate the correct use of "lose" in a headline?!?
Is the weight chafing at the lead to flee from the patient's body?
Arghh!
Assuming someone is out of school and wants to go back and learn/reinforce this type of math auto-didactly, what books/web resources would people recommend?
If no one else had a phone, would you want one? The thing about broadband is that while it theoretically enables killer applications like Voip, video phones, personal webcams, etc, these aren't interesting until the people you care about also have broadband. The only way to get from here to there is to lower the price and increase the availability.
This book sounds great and I love a lot of the old text only games, but I think the few really great graphical adventure games, especially the work of art that is Grim Fandango, deserve more respect from a book like this.
First world intervention in the third world, even something which seems to be as purely good as increasing the food supply, is a complex and controversial topic, and you should not restrict your opinion to, for example, the article mentioned in the original post. I was just trying to balance the somewhat Pollyanna-ish tone of the Slashdot summary.
A quick search on Green Revolution in Google brings up plenty of conflicting informed opinion.
More people starving now than ever?
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Here's the thing. By feeding the world without also putting major birth control measures in place you generate population surplus faster than you generate sustainable food production. I once heard a talk by a green revolution scientist who mourned the fact that decades later, because of population growth, there were now more people starving than ever before.
Why don't some slashdot readers seem to know that they can use technology to filter categories they aren't interested in so they don't have to waste their precious time on them and can more quickly return to outsourcing/being outsourced?
...since they're so addicive and time consuming is obviously outsourcing to India.
Re:I live in Marin (where Skywalker is located)
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I guess when old white directors run out of good ideas
I can see "old" being related to running out of ideas, but "white" seems oddly gratuitous from a sample size of two.
What should be in a trult practical C++ book
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Why do most of the books ignore the practical aspects of of C++ that end up wasting tons of programming time, especially for beginners? Primarily I'm talking about things like how to keep tons of #include files under control and debug problems with them in your own code or existing code you are using or evaluating. How to organize source code into various directories for use by multiple projects. When and how to create compiled libraries. How to make DLLs on different operating systems as opposed to applications. And on and on.
There are a million books about how to program in c/c++, but how about how to get actual work done in c?
The diamond industry has made countless billions creating and popularizing traditions like the diamond engagement ring or the idea that a good diamond for you is two months salary. (Where do they get this stiff?)
Now, if you look in any womans fashion magazine you will see an advertisement for the new idea of the womans right-hand diamond ring to represent some sort of personal empowerment. You've come an even longer way, baby!
They face their ultimate marketing challenge, which they may pull off, in trying to differentiate factory made diamonds indistinguishable from mined ones as somehow inferior.
Just the usual flammable interface between "Lucas retroactively ruined what I originally loved about SW" (my opinion) and "Get over it, the new ones are just as good."
If you are right, that the kind of people who play MMORPGs now will play so obsessively and efficiently that they breeze through the content, this may not matter. There is an untapped market waiting to be exploited.
I was an early beta tester of the original EQ and as it developed it became abundantly clear that, as an adult with a job and a wife, I would never be willing to put the in the time the game required to progress satisfactorily in levels. The time commitment, especially of repetitive activities in the same zones was far too high.
I have been waiting for an MMORPG to come around that has two qualities: most of the time spent in the game is fun, and that I can play a few hours a week and feel I'm making progress. This game seems to fulfill those things. In this over-scheduled age we live in, I bet there are a lot of potential MMORPG players like me. The game that hooks them will make a lot of money.
Actually, there are a large number of fans of the first two or three films who have such an intense negative reaction to the prequels that they feel Lucas is managing to retroactively ruin the original experiences. I am one of these people.
The apologists insist that this is simply because we were children when we saw the first movies and that the prequels are just as good TO CHILDREN.
I disagree on a number of levels. Obviously there is no simple objective truth to this kind of aesthetic judgement, and a lot of people will always stand behind George. But I think that the number of people who feel exactly as I do, that the prequels are little more than magnifications and concentrations of the things that were wrong with the first three (especially RoJ), is large enough that the phenomenon deserves respect.
Face it, "kids love it" doesn't excuse anything. Kids love a lot of things that are as close as you can get to objectively horrible.
A lot of adults find the first three films to be great and to withstand the test of time, even when they aren't being merely sentimental.
Lucas had an opportunity to make almost all SW fans very happy with the prequels, adults and children, by making them great. Instead he created a schism in the community. I think this didn't have to happen.
I guess I'm glad people like you can enjoy what Lucas did, but have some sympathy for those of us movie fans who had really, really high levels of excitement for the prequels but ended up getting surprise attacked by Jar Jar and now can't even enjoy the originals.
Wow. Clearly some people have something really important invested in the idea that Tolkien's books have to be "taken at face value."
This idea is ridiculous. The echoes of so many modern and age-old problems of mankind in these works, especially those we know Tolkien felt very strongly about, are deafeningly loud, and anyone who doesn't hear them is missing a great deal of what gives those books enduring significance. Recognizing the resonance to our own world of the themes in these books enriches them and takes nothing away.
Shouldn't the moron who shot the guy have to BE his one-handed controller for the rest of his life? He should have to just stand by the guy's videogame console 24/7 in case he wants to play something, and then hold and operate the controller as the victim beats him with an idiot stick on different parts of his body to signal which buttons to push.
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Can we please at least try to demonstrate the correct use of "lose" in a headline?!? Is the weight chafing at the lead to flee from the patient's body? Arghh!
Assuming someone is out of school and wants to go back and learn/reinforce this type of math auto-didactly, what books/web resources would people recommend?
If no one else had a phone, would you want one? The thing about broadband is that while it theoretically enables killer applications like Voip, video phones, personal webcams, etc, these aren't interesting until the people you care about also have broadband. The only way to get from here to there is to lower the price and increase the availability.
This book sounds great and I love a lot of the old text only games, but I think the few really great graphical adventure games, especially the work of art that is Grim Fandango, deserve more respect from a book like this.
(obvisouly? popultion? compenstate? artical?)
First world intervention in the third world, even something which seems to be as purely good as increasing the food supply, is a complex and controversial topic, and you should not restrict your opinion to, for example, the article mentioned in the original post. I was just trying to balance the somewhat Pollyanna-ish tone of the Slashdot summary.
A quick search on Green Revolution in Google brings up plenty of conflicting informed opinion.
Here's the thing. By feeding the world without also putting major birth control measures in place you generate population surplus faster than you generate sustainable food production. I once heard a talk by a green revolution scientist who mourned the fact that decades later, because of population growth, there were now more people starving than ever before.
Slow down, tiger!
It may have some great CG, but I think "putting LoTR to shame" is overstating the case a bit.
How can you even tell in quicktime?
Okay, AC, here's a tech issue for you:
Why don't some slashdot readers seem to know that they can use technology to filter categories they aren't interested in so they don't have to waste their precious time on them and can more quickly return to outsourcing/being outsourced?
Discuss...
I am very curious about that myself. I thought they did a pretty good job with the pilot. The casting was superb.
...since they're so addicive and time consuming is obviously outsourcing to India.
I guess when old white directors run out of good ideas
I can see "old" being related to running out of ideas, but "white" seems oddly gratuitous from a sample size of two.
Why do most of the books ignore the practical aspects of of C++ that end up wasting tons of programming time, especially for beginners? Primarily I'm talking about things like how to keep tons of #include files under control and debug problems with them in your own code or existing code you are using or evaluating. How to organize source code into various directories for use by multiple projects. When and how to create compiled libraries. How to make DLLs on different operating systems as opposed to applications. And on and on.
There are a million books about how to program in c/c++, but how about how to get actual work done in c?
The diamond industry has made countless billions creating and popularizing traditions like the diamond engagement ring or the idea that a good diamond for you is two months salary. (Where do they get this stiff?)
Now, if you look in any womans fashion magazine you will see an advertisement for the new idea of the womans right-hand diamond ring to represent some sort of personal empowerment. You've come an even longer way, baby!
They face their ultimate marketing challenge, which they may pull off, in trying to differentiate factory made diamonds indistinguishable from mined ones as somehow inferior.
Good luck, super rich!
Just the usual flammable interface between "Lucas retroactively ruined what I originally loved about SW" (my opinion) and "Get over it, the new ones are just as good."
Nothing to see here.
Theirs a suprise!
what would Indian companies pay ME for?
Obviously anything this secret is going to turn out to be some form of scooter.
There are only two types of people in the world, those who finish sentences and
If you are right, that the kind of people who play MMORPGs now will play so obsessively and efficiently that they breeze through the content, this may not matter. There is an untapped market waiting to be exploited.
I was an early beta tester of the original EQ and as it developed it became abundantly clear that, as an adult with a job and a wife, I would never be willing to put the in the time the game required to progress satisfactorily in levels. The time commitment, especially of repetitive activities in the same zones was far too high.
I have been waiting for an MMORPG to come around that has two qualities: most of the time spent in the game is fun, and that I can play a few hours a week and feel I'm making progress. This game seems to fulfill those things. In this over-scheduled age we live in, I bet there are a lot of potential MMORPG players like me. The game that hooks them will make a lot of money.
Actually, there are a large number of fans of the first two or three films who have such an intense negative reaction to the prequels that they feel Lucas is managing to retroactively ruin the original experiences. I am one of these people.
The apologists insist that this is simply because we were children when we saw the first movies and that the prequels are just as good TO CHILDREN.
I disagree on a number of levels. Obviously there is no simple objective truth to this kind of aesthetic judgement, and a lot of people will always stand behind George. But I think that the number of people who feel exactly as I do, that the prequels are little more than magnifications and concentrations of the things that were wrong with the first three (especially RoJ), is large enough that the phenomenon deserves respect.
Face it, "kids love it" doesn't excuse anything. Kids love a lot of things that are as close as you can get to objectively horrible.
A lot of adults find the first three films to be great and to withstand the test of time, even when they aren't being merely sentimental.
Lucas had an opportunity to make almost all SW fans very happy with the prequels, adults and children, by making them great. Instead he created a schism in the community. I think this didn't have to happen.
I guess I'm glad people like you can enjoy what Lucas did, but have some sympathy for those of us movie fans who had really, really high levels of excitement for the prequels but ended up getting surprise attacked by Jar Jar and now can't even enjoy the originals.
CS205 has CS205 as a prerequisite! I think recursive courses should be reserved for higher levels.
Wow. Clearly some people have something really important invested in the idea that Tolkien's books have to be "taken at face value."
This idea is ridiculous. The echoes of so many modern and age-old problems of mankind in these works, especially those we know Tolkien felt very strongly about, are deafeningly loud, and anyone who doesn't hear them is missing a great deal of what gives those books enduring significance. Recognizing the resonance to our own world of the themes in these books enriches them and takes nothing away.
Now I don't have time left over to make any more mistakes.
Shouldn't the moron who shot the guy have to BE his one-handed controller for the rest of his life? He should have to just stand by the guy's videogame console 24/7 in case he wants to play something, and then hold and operate the controller as the victim beats him with an idiot stick on different parts of his body to signal which buttons to push.
Heads we send a single expensive space probe to mars with a fifty percent chance of catastrophic failure, heads we DON'T.
I hope they gave it at least this much chance to save the money in the first place.