He must charge huge royalties too, because his musical "The Marriage of Figaro" charges a lot more for tickets than Lloyd-Webber ones like "Phantom of the Opera". That Mozart guy must be raking the money in!
IIRC we had calculus at my school in NZ in the last two years (when I was 15 and 16 (form 6, 7)) but the university mostly just recapped the form 7 stuff for the first year. It was useful having a cushy class, but the next year stuff got more interesting.
When I was looking at my grandad's old textbooks it looked like it used to be harder than that in the old days too; when most people left school at 14, only the keen ones hung around for form 6 and 7, so high school maths was a bit more advanced in the 1950s.
Or twenty seconds to delete a small text file from the WIndows XP shell... What is it doing, sending the file to microsoft and waiting for the engineers to analyse it?
If I want to see Little Britain in real life, I just have to get on my local bus at the wrong time - Matt Lucas does a good impression of the local (female) yoof.
But if the football was on BBC you would have no excuse to walk the 100 yards to the pub and buy a pint. This is the most exercise most people in the the UK who are "passionate about sport" can manage.
If you don't get even the exercise of walking to the pub (and standing) you will end up looking like a Texan.
They have usually had as edgy/edgier programs than the BBC: Bremner Bird & Fortune, Queer as Folk, Shameless, Metrosexuality. Also Scrapheap challenge is a good home for Kryton.
Of course lots of the good programs could never get shown on broadcast TV in the USA - they freak out over a single female nipple after all.
That game they released called "final fantasy the spirits within" had lovely graphics, but it more gameplay than the other ones in the series. After all in Final Fantasy X (on PS2), you could only pause and continue, but with The Spirits Within (DVD) you could rewind and speed it up as well, just using your remote control!
Hey wait a minute, piracy is bad? So Gridrunner, Attack of the Mutant Camels etc. were for sale then originally, not just passed around on unmarked discs/tapes at computer shops? Oops...
MCV this week had an article which showed there was very little correlation between review scores and sales figures. There was a slight bonus for games that got over 90% but otherwise not much effect.
It seems people don't read reviews, and if they do read them, ignore them anyway, or as the article put it, prioritise different inputs (i.e. the marketing and how cute the movie star was rather than if the game plays ok).
I can understand that attitude for pop music, since that is a very personal taste, but I would consider games to have more things that can be criticised objectively, so it seems odd to me.
Just using machetes, in Rwanda a few years ago they managed to kill more people per day than died in 9.11.2001 world trade centre; every day for 100 days. I can't remember it getting 100 times the news coverage of the US event though:-(
My auntie was trying to go through a course in computer literacy. One of the tasks was to load a sample web site, copy/paste the page into a word-processing document, and save it. It really stumped her.
Someone had installed openoffice on her machine and it stole the.doc association. The program (unlike word) was unable to perform the copy and paste operation from a browser (IE) and make it look vaguely readable (IIRC it dribbled characters down the right margin), so she spent hours/days trying to work out how to get it to work. Argh!
IIRC, "Spy Hunter" chugged on Midway arcade treasures one (on PS2 anyway) so just because it is official there is no guarantee that your machines CPU will run faster (unless they are ports from source code rather than ROM emulations for example, but that leads to other problems, especially since some games were written in an obscure typeless language before that new-fangled "C" thingy took off).
American kids are at high-school until their late 20s. (unlike Grange Hill for example). This is explained by them never having anything to learn in class or having homework (or school uniforms come to that). I know there is at least one guy in his late 40s at high school in India who is still trying to pass his exams, but statistically I would have thought the majority of americans should have graduated from high school at least by the age of 21.
The speed of sound == the speed of light. Explosions are heard instantly even if they are kilometres away.
And deleting a file on a hard disk, a simple matter of changing a directory entry, takes many seconds instead of a few milliseconds seek time. Oh wait, Windows XP has implemented that feature as a tribute to Hollywood.
Apparently paypal is a front for a global child molester network... and so the former boss of the BBC (John Birt) is being hounded by the british newspapers for accepting a position at such a contraversial company (ebay). Yeah I think it's surreal too, especially when the picture they used to illustrate the story didn't even have a paypal logo on it but did have mastercard and visa:-)
If only we could get Fair and Balanced news over here... oh wait...
I think on screens you can display Latin at 4*6 pixels, Katakana at 8*8 pixels (with an extra character for accents) and some Kanji at 16*16 pixels, but that is really not very readable.
Is it just me, or did it seem strange when the entire media and government of the UK was publicising the new film "the secret life of walter mitty" a few months ago (Dr. David Kelly affair)? Mind you, they shot their load a bit too soon, because the film still isn't out yet. Spielberg needs to get his publicity machine better synced with local political scandals...
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He must charge huge royalties too, because his musical "The Marriage of Figaro" charges a lot more for tickets than Lloyd-Webber ones like "Phantom of the Opera". That Mozart guy must be raking the money in!
When I was looking at my grandad's old textbooks it looked like it used to be harder than that in the old days too; when most people left school at 14, only the keen ones hung around for form 6 and 7, so high school maths was a bit more advanced in the 1950s.
You and your new-fangled Cartesian co-ordinate system. Why, back in Euclid's day we just had points, straight lines and circles, and we were grateful!
Or twenty seconds to delete a small text file from the WIndows XP shell... What is it doing, sending the file to microsoft and waiting for the engineers to analyse it?
This article might clear it up. I used to think the ITV companies had a stake in it, but it seems I was mistaken.
If I want to see Little Britain in real life, I just have to get on my local bus at the wrong time - Matt Lucas does a good impression of the local (female) yoof.
Still, it beats torturing fish or shooting stuff.
If you don't get even the exercise of walking to the pub (and standing) you will end up looking like a Texan.
Of course lots of the good programs could never get shown on broadcast TV in the USA - they freak out over a single female nipple after all.
That game they released called "final fantasy the spirits within" had lovely graphics, but it more gameplay than the other ones in the series. After all in Final Fantasy X (on PS2), you could only pause and continue, but with The Spirits Within (DVD) you could rewind and speed it up as well, just using your remote control!
Gary Liddon told me Jeff's new game (Unity I guess) is the prettiest thing he has ever seen, which is pretty impressive for programmer graphics :-)
Hey wait a minute, piracy is bad? So Gridrunner, Attack of the Mutant Camels etc. were for sale then originally, not just passed around on unmarked discs/tapes at computer shops? Oops...
It seems people don't read reviews, and if they do read them, ignore them anyway, or as the article put it, prioritise different inputs (i.e. the marketing and how cute the movie star was rather than if the game plays ok).
I can understand that attitude for pop music, since that is a very personal taste, but I would consider games to have more things that can be criticised objectively, so it seems odd to me.
Just using machetes, in Rwanda a few years ago they managed to kill more people per day than died in 9.11.2001 world trade centre; every day for 100 days. I can't remember it getting 100 times the news coverage of the US event though :-(
You had to put the five year limit in to rule out custer's revenge, yeah?
Namco released several arcade machines with 3 CPUs - galaga, dig-dug, bosconian, xevious for example.
Someone had installed openoffice on her machine and it stole the .doc association. The program (unlike word) was unable to perform the copy and paste operation from a browser (IE) and make it look vaguely readable (IIRC it dribbled characters down the right margin), so she spent hours/days trying to work out how to get it to work. Argh!
Oops, dang!
IIRC, "Spy Hunter" chugged on Midway arcade treasures one (on PS2 anyway) so just because it is official there is no guarantee that your machines CPU will run faster (unless they are ports from source code rather than ROM emulations for example, but that leads to other problems, especially since some games were written in an obscure typeless language before that new-fangled "C" thingy took off).
American kids are at high-school until their late 20s. (unlike Grange Hill for example). This is explained by them never having anything to learn in class or having homework (or school uniforms come to that). I know there is at least one guy in his late 40s at high school in India who is still trying to pass his exams, but statistically I would have thought the majority of americans should have graduated from high school at least by the age of 21.
The speed of sound == the speed of light. Explosions are heard instantly even if they are kilometres away.
And deleting a file on a hard disk, a simple matter of changing a directory entry, takes many seconds instead of a few milliseconds seek time. Oh wait, Windows XP has implemented that feature as a tribute to Hollywood.
The director has obviously never played Elite!
Apparently paypal is a front for a global child molester network... and so the former boss of the BBC (John Birt) is being hounded by the british newspapers for accepting a position at such a contraversial company (ebay). Yeah I think it's surreal too, especially when the picture they used to illustrate the story didn't even have a paypal logo on it but did have mastercard and visa :-)
If only we could get Fair and Balanced news over here... oh wait...
I think on screens you can display Latin at 4*6 pixels, Katakana at 8*8 pixels (with an extra character for accents) and some Kanji at 16*16 pixels, but that is really not very readable.
So people will have to start sharing Middle Eastern tracks that use different scales!
Is it just me, or did it seem strange when the entire media and government of the UK was publicising the new film "the secret life of walter mitty" a few months ago (Dr. David Kelly affair)? Mind you, they shot their load a bit too soon, because the film still isn't out yet. Spielberg needs to get his publicity machine better synced with local political scandals...