It's amazing that back in the MTV days artists were ACTUALLY artists and the talent shows through and through. ever notice how many 80s stations there are on the radio today? IMHO the 80's was the last attempt at real music with real artists..ya know people that write and produce their own stuff?
Tish and pish. There was plenty of good music written and produced in the 90s, and still is plenty coming out in this decade. Of course, there is also a great deal of rubbish, but what twenty years has made you forget is just how much crap there was back in the 80s as well. You won't remember it because the 80s stations simply won't play the crap, instead sticking to the good stuff that everyone remembers fondly.
Having different chapters for films may not be as appealing to you as the parent poster suggests. Where you may agree it makes a difference is for DVDs of TV programmes, with several episodes per disc. Having even 3 episodes on a VHS tape was a pain to try to get to the second or third episode. On a DVD you can skip right to the episode you want to watch. I consider this a great advantage over tape.
In spoken language you don't get to see the letters. Yet you somehow easily distinguish "to," too," and "two." When it's written, suddenly it's impossible?
When words that sound the same are spoken one uses context to sort out which meaning is meant. The meanings of the words are often distinct, so it is normally straightforward to work out which word is being used. However, when 'to' or 'two', for example, are seen on the page they are parsed with their relative definitions outside of the sentence's context because the actual word used is recognised more quickly. This can indeed cause a small hiccup in understanding and having to reread the words to get the meaning.
If someone were to say, 'I wont to by too of them' you would probably 'understand' the sentence as 'I want to buy two of them', even though it is a nonsense sentence. When written, it is far more difficult to parse, because the words are not connected in any way that their definitions would suggest.
Note also that 'to', 'two' and 'too' can sound different depending on sentence structure, making it easier to determine which one is being used. I began by writing 'I wont two by too of them' in the above example, but noticed that 'two' would be pronounced differently than 'to' in the same position, so had to change it.
All this suggests to me that parsing speech and text is done differently, and your argument doesn't take this in to consideration.
[T]he United States Department of Defense's definition of a trusted system is one that can break your security policy; i.e., "a system that you are forced to trust because you have no choice."
He later ended up writing a Sci-Fi clone of [Dungeon Master] called BSS Jane Seymour IIRC for the Amiga.
Tony Crowther wrote a sci-fi version of the Dungeon Master genre for the Amiga. It was called 'Captive' and involved someone waking up in a prison cell with a briefcase next to him. Opening the briefcase showed it to be a controller for four droids, and he had to explore dungeons and find keys with the droids in order to work out where he was being held captive and to break himself out.
It was a fantastic game, and one of my favourites on the Amiga. Crowther even programmed in a little joke: on rare occasions the interface of the briefcase would crash, causing a Guru Meditation in the little screen you used to control the droids, which was a reference to the Amiga's error screen.
Dungeon Master came out on both the Atari and Amiga simultaneously.
It required 1 MB of RAM on the Amiga (I'm not sure about the ST), so probably wasn't as big as it could have been. That was the only reason I never got to play Dungeon Master, as I couldn't afford to upgrade the RAM in my 500.
Yeah, it's the About This Mac box that is in focus, despite Software Update being in the menu bar. I could tell because the left-most circle, used to close the window, is coloured a different grey to the others, whereas any window without focus will have all the circles in the same shade, as your Finder window shows.
I agree with you though that a novice probably won't realise this, and that it is not ideal design.
And any self respecting Slashdotter should not need to have been told what Doom level that was.
I have no respect for myself. In fact, I abuse myself daily, IYKWIM.
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I know a lot of people like to play on role playing servers but it just feels silly to me, the game structure is too obvious for me to want to play pretend.
Yes, you cannot get rid of that element of play simply through a bit of role-playing. What you can do, though, is lay down a policy of staying in-character so that people who want to role-play won't be distracted by everyone else talking about what was on television last night.
The RP servers don't make it more of a role-playing game as such, but it can make it less of a mechanical system, as people are more likely to spend time talking in-character than on other servers. I have found the RP aspect has enlivened the game beyond simply pressing buttons on many occasions.
It is either 'an FPS', or 'a First-Person Shooter'.
Abbreviations are assumed in written English to be pronounced letter by letter, unless they are acronyms that have become fully accepted as words, like 'laser' or 'NATO'.
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Neither 'Bayesian Babble' nor 'bloat-compatible' are Googlewhacks. First, the two words should not be in quotes; they should be separate words that are included anywhere on the page idependently, not together. Second, a one-hit result doesn't count if the page in question is a dictionary or random list of words.
And considering that the login servers couldn't cope with demand to authenticate users for about a day after release, I doubt that they had the infrastructure to support mass-quantity downloading of a 5GB game.
the use of AAC isn't really a DRM issue, it's simply a case of a company selling music in a format that can only be processed by their own music players.
It can be processed by other music players, it's just that it isn't. The codec can be licenced and used just as it can for MP3.
I love Steve Jobs, but I think he's a little paranoid here. Losers always copy the winners. It'd be better to take comfort in the comfortable lead that Apple's got, rather than complain about parrots.
Sure, losers copy the winners, but does that mean the winners shouldn't point this out? Maybe Jobs is making a point of showing how Microsoft have been far from doing anything new or original for a while, and that OS X is a leading OS not following. It's marketing, effectively.
This is one of the big problems I have with these sorts of laws. You seem to face a smaller penalty for going into a store and actually stealing the CDs or DVDs.
Is that what we really want to teach people to do?
Hey, maybe that's the point of this sort of law after all (even though it applies to unreleased material, but still).
If you couldn't get a film or some music from your favourite network would you then consider going out to steal the CD or DVD? Maybe stealing feels 'more wrong', or maybe you don't think you could get away with it as easily, or maybe you just can't be bothered to go out of the house right now to do it.
Stealing from a shop must be easier to detect and protect against, as well as being much more of a stigma for anyone who is caught. If there are laws like this that carry seemingly too-harsh a penalty maybe it will stop people from doing it, whilst still not giving them enough incentive to use another unlawful method.
Not that I agree with the law as such, just thinking out loud.
Previous OS updates have addressed driver issues for Unreal Tournament 2004 as well, so it's not just one game but the big games that most gamers are likely to play.
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It's amazing that back in the MTV days artists were ACTUALLY artists and the talent shows through and through. ever notice how many 80s stations there are on the radio today? IMHO the 80's was the last attempt at real music with real artists..ya know people that write and produce their own stuff?
Tish and pish. There was plenty of good music written and produced in the 90s, and still is plenty coming out in this decade. Of course, there is also a great deal of rubbish, but what twenty years has made you forget is just how much crap there was back in the 80s as well. You won't remember it because the 80s stations simply won't play the crap, instead sticking to the good stuff that everyone remembers fondly.
Tish and pish. The XPOD will be a GLORIOUS device! I got my hands on a protoype: http://www.clu.org.uk/xpod/the_xpod.shtml
... viruii ...
Wow man, that's beautiful.
Having different chapters for films may not be as appealing to you as the parent poster suggests. Where you may agree it makes a difference is for DVDs of TV programmes, with several episodes per disc. Having even 3 episodes on a VHS tape was a pain to try to get to the second or third episode. On a DVD you can skip right to the episode you want to watch. I consider this a great advantage over tape.
In spoken language you don't get to see the letters. Yet you somehow easily distinguish "to," too," and "two." When it's written, suddenly it's impossible?
When words that sound the same are spoken one uses context to sort out which meaning is meant. The meanings of the words are often distinct, so it is normally straightforward to work out which word is being used. However, when 'to' or 'two', for example, are seen on the page they are parsed with their relative definitions outside of the sentence's context because the actual word used is recognised more quickly. This can indeed cause a small hiccup in understanding and having to reread the words to get the meaning.
If someone were to say, 'I wont to by too of them' you would probably 'understand' the sentence as 'I want to buy two of them', even though it is a nonsense sentence. When written, it is far more difficult to parse, because the words are not connected in any way that their definitions would suggest.
Note also that 'to', 'two' and 'too' can sound different depending on sentence structure, making it easier to determine which one is being used. I began by writing 'I wont two by too of them' in the above example, but noticed that 'two' would be pronounced differently than 'to' in the same position, so had to change it.
All this suggests to me that parsing speech and text is done differently, and your argument doesn't take this in to consideration.
It's such a good idea, we've been doing it a loooong time now ;) But it doesn't correct every typo or grammar error.
Indeed not; I think you misspelt 'long' there.
If you've never managed to reach the stage where your reading is pipelined then you won't be impacted much by grammatical errors.
AFFECTED! Don't make me come over there.
I think you are confusing 'trusted' with 'trustworthy', in computing terms.
From the wikipedia's entry on Trusted Computing:
He later ended up writing a Sci-Fi clone of [Dungeon Master] called BSS Jane Seymour IIRC for the Amiga.
Tony Crowther wrote a sci-fi version of the Dungeon Master genre for the Amiga. It was called 'Captive' and involved someone waking up in a prison cell with a briefcase next to him. Opening the briefcase showed it to be a controller for four droids, and he had to explore dungeons and find keys with the droids in order to work out where he was being held captive and to break himself out.
It was a fantastic game, and one of my favourites on the Amiga. Crowther even programmed in a little joke: on rare occasions the interface of the briefcase would crash, causing a Guru Meditation in the little screen you used to control the droids, which was a reference to the Amiga's error screen.
Dungeon Master came out on both the Atari and Amiga simultaneously.
It required 1 MB of RAM on the Amiga (I'm not sure about the ST), so probably wasn't as big as it could have been. That was the only reason I never got to play Dungeon Master, as I couldn't afford to upgrade the RAM in my 500.
Yeah, it's the About This Mac box that is in focus, despite Software Update being in the menu bar. I could tell because the left-most circle, used to close the window, is coloured a different grey to the others, whereas any window without focus will have all the circles in the same shade, as your Finder window shows.
I agree with you though that a novice probably won't realise this, and that it is not ideal design.
And any self respecting Slashdotter should not need to have been told what Doom level that was.
I have no respect for myself. In fact, I abuse myself daily, IYKWIM.
I know a lot of people like to play on role playing servers but it just feels silly to me, the game structure is too obvious for me to want to play pretend.
Yes, you cannot get rid of that element of play simply through a bit of role-playing. What you can do, though, is lay down a policy of staying in-character so that people who want to role-play won't be distracted by everyone else talking about what was on television last night.
The RP servers don't make it more of a role-playing game as such, but it can make it less of a mechanical system, as people are more likely to spend time talking in-character than on other servers. I have found the RP aspect has enlivened the game beyond simply pressing buttons on many occasions.
It is either 'an FPS', or 'a First-Person Shooter'.
Abbreviations are assumed in written English to be pronounced letter by letter, unless they are acronyms that have become fully accepted as words, like 'laser' or 'NATO'.
TFA was correct in writing 'an FPS'.
Or for you shaman haters out there,
Hello! *waves*
Neither 'Bayesian Babble' nor 'bloat-compatible' are Googlewhacks. First, the two words should not be in quotes; they should be separate words that are included anywhere on the page idependently, not together. Second, a one-hit result doesn't count if the page in question is a dictionary or random list of words.
It feels like i am changing batteries constantly in my Logitech MediaPlay. Does anyone else feel the same?
Yes, I also feel like you are changing the batteries constantly.
It makes me tingly.
And considering that the login servers couldn't cope with demand to authenticate users for about a day after release, I doubt that they had the infrastructure to support mass-quantity downloading of a 5GB game.
In terms of language evolution, the word 'taught' has the same relationship to 'teach' as 'wrought' has to 'wreak',
What, you mean 'none whatsoever'?
The past tense and past participle of 'wreak' is 'wreaked'.
(A pedant is anyone who cares about at least one more detail than I do. Anyone who cares about one less detail than I do is a lazy slob, of course.)
FEWER!
Lazy slob.
Hrm, perhaps I'll go and see this if I get to watch Picard kill some Nazis while dodging machine gun fire.
You actually want a holodeck episode, but extended to 90+ minutes? You're a sick puppy.
the use of AAC isn't really a DRM issue, it's simply a case of a company selling music in a format that can only be processed by their own music players.
It can be processed by other music players, it's just that it isn't. The codec can be licenced and used just as it can for MP3.
I love Steve Jobs, but I think he's a little paranoid here. Losers always copy the winners. It'd be better to take comfort in the comfortable lead that Apple's got, rather than complain about parrots.
Sure, losers copy the winners, but does that mean the winners shouldn't point this out? Maybe Jobs is making a point of showing how Microsoft have been far from doing anything new or original for a while, and that OS X is a leading OS not following. It's marketing, effectively.
This is one of the big problems I have with these sorts of laws. You seem to face a smaller penalty for going into a store and actually stealing the CDs or DVDs.
Is that what we really want to teach people to do?
Hey, maybe that's the point of this sort of law after all (even though it applies to unreleased material, but still).
If you couldn't get a film or some music from your favourite network would you then consider going out to steal the CD or DVD? Maybe stealing feels 'more wrong', or maybe you don't think you could get away with it as easily, or maybe you just can't be bothered to go out of the house right now to do it.
Stealing from a shop must be easier to detect and protect against, as well as being much more of a stigma for anyone who is caught. If there are laws like this that carry seemingly too-harsh a penalty maybe it will stop people from doing it, whilst still not giving them enough incentive to use another unlawful method.
Not that I agree with the law as such, just thinking out loud.
Sure it's just one game they've done this for,
Previous OS updates have addressed driver issues for Unreal Tournament 2004 as well, so it's not just one game but the big games that most gamers are likely to play.