Let's see, God's very first positive command to humans - "name the animals". It's only taken 6000 years (traditionally reckoned) for them to start giving it a proper go. Hmmm, next we might start wondering about the sense of eating apples. In a few million years we might get up to the bit about "love thy neighbour".:-)
Just remember that the President of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, which is working on nuclear weapons (and can already more than reach Japan with its missiles), gets his view of the world through Hollywood movies.
Whatever you do, don't send Arnie over as a (republican) goodwill ambassador...
I don't understand why black/noir/nigre etc. would be considered as an insult in some languages but not in others. Maybe calling me blanc is an insult but white is not?
Ditto for abbreviating nationalities - why is Paki an insult for a Pakistani but Aussie or Brit is not an insult?
For real insults, I find "faggot" to be bad (i.e. meaning that which is to be burned at the stake) though shirt-lifter for example can be quite descriptive (well after I've had a few drinks) as are colloquialisms for various nationalities according to what food they traditionally prefer to eat.
Great for writers, not so good for graphic artists.
Isn't that the entire point of AlienBrain? Source control for artists. Because otherwise they might be tempted to call files "Final version of nysetex32 more recent final32.max" or something like that and then copy that into "Backups" and "new" directories:-)
Of course AlienBrain ain't cheap (and I haven't used it myself), but they've obviously seen a need...
Perhaps you have heard about the case where a babysitter was fined because she watched the TV and the householders had not paid the (united kingdom) television license fee? Ouch!
That is, if Sony Europe sells a particular CD for a value of $1 in San Marino, they cannot prevent its importation into the US even if it undercuts Sony America's price of $20, BECAUSE THEY ALREADY SOLD IT.
Unfortunately, we have dumb laws in Europe which mean that, if Levi's sell jeans for $10 in the USA, they CAN prevent their importation into Europe because it undercuts their official price of $200 (or whatever), using Trademark laws of all things.
But even that is not as evil as the European laws which mean that all New Zealand Cheese (apart from Cheddar) and Dessert Wines are banned for being too good (i.e. they would outcompete local brands). Pah!
I love the new microsoft EULA:-) To fix the security bug of the week, e.g. the bugs in MP3 that let anyone take over your machine, you have to download a patch. When I used Windows Update to download the patch you have to accept the EULA. The EULA comes up with the buttons "Don't accept" and "Cancel".
"Accept" is greyed out! While it may be true that a sane person might sometimes query accepting Microsoft's terms, it does seem a bit rich that you can't download the patch even if you do. Also the license includes Javascript and HTML as text. I wonder if this is due to a hypothetical previous patch turning stuff off for safety? Can I be bothered tracking it down at this time of year, when there is such wonderful televi... hmm.
Glowing balls of stuff (plasma?) have been known to pass through solid objects (you don't want them to do that to you!) and reflect (and emit) photons quite easily. You picked a bad definition there. Note also that many things (e.g. wood or glass) are opaque to some photons (e.g. visible light or UV) but transparent to others (e.g. radio or visible light).
Oh, you mean in a bisexual film. In straight films the producers blatently hunt down the ugliest men they can find. Even some straight couples I know prefer bi films since they find that the ugly guys in straight films just put them right off whatever they were doing.
Well when I was at university, a girl staying in my hostel said she had her great-aunts diary in which she talks about witnessing one of Pearse's flights. Perhaps that might be useful.
Ohmigod, that's been the front page news in all british newspapers for the past TWO WEEKS!
Apparently the boyfriend of the fitness instructor of the wife of the Prime Minister of the UK is a bit dodgy.
Never mind that twenty suitcase nukes have been confirmed missing from soviet times, north korea has been selling missiles to yemen, the EU has decided to admit ten new countries. The big news is that some Australian con-man is good at negotiating real-estate deals... Sheesh!
2K of RAM would be very useful (I got 640 bytes). Although direct access ROM is very nice (better than talking through a serial port anyway), having extra RAM would be lovely, letting you compress stuff better, and mix data by category instead of by whether or not it changes.
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Let's see, God's very first positive command to humans - "name the animals". It's only taken 6000 years (traditionally reckoned) for them to start giving it a proper go. Hmmm, next we might start wondering about the sense of eating apples. In a few million years we might get up to the bit about "love thy neighbour". :-)
Mmm, impressive! A few more comments in their code might have been appreciated though, but that might reduce the mystique somewhat.
Flintstones (Hanna Barbera): Sep 30 1960 (ABC)
Road-runner (Warner Bros.): 1949
I'd like to see you do that on a SNES without a fancy FX chip.
Whatever you do, don't send Arnie over as a (republican) goodwill ambassador...
Ditto for abbreviating nationalities - why is Paki an insult for a Pakistani but Aussie or Brit is not an insult?
For real insults, I find "faggot" to be bad (i.e. meaning that which is to be burned at the stake) though shirt-lifter for example can be quite descriptive (well after I've had a few drinks) as are colloquialisms for various nationalities according to what food they traditionally prefer to eat.
After all, no-one cares if PILOTED us planes crash into important well-marked cables in europe killing lots of first-world skiiers.
Isn't that the entire point of AlienBrain? Source control for artists. Because otherwise they might be tempted to call files "Final version of nysetex32 more recent final32.max" or something like that and then copy that into "Backups" and "new" directories :-)
Of course AlienBrain ain't cheap (and I haven't used it myself), but they've obviously seen a need...
Perhaps you have heard about the case where a babysitter was fined because she watched the TV and the householders had not paid the (united kingdom) television license fee? Ouch!
That is, if Sony Europe sells a particular CD for a value of $1 in San Marino, they cannot prevent its importation into the US even if it undercuts Sony America's price of $20, BECAUSE THEY ALREADY SOLD IT.
Unfortunately, we have dumb laws in Europe which mean that, if Levi's sell jeans for $10 in the USA, they CAN prevent their importation into Europe because it undercuts their official price of $200 (or whatever), using Trademark laws of all things.
But even that is not as evil as the European laws which mean that all New Zealand Cheese (apart from Cheddar) and Dessert Wines are banned for being too good (i.e. they would outcompete local brands). Pah!
I find spending a couple of hours with PhotoShop provides much clearer proof for the doubters.
and other stuff. And yes I did wait, and did scroll down to the bottom, and did try again with the same lack of results.
After posting the first reply, waiting and then trying yet again, the EULA came up as normal in a grey text box with no
and an enabled Accept button. I often do stupid things. I just don't accept that this was one of them.
Ah, it works now! Perhaps the power of slashdot was killing the EULA server, as a million DX9 licenses get served :-)
"Accept" is greyed out! While it may be true that a sane person might sometimes query accepting Microsoft's terms, it does seem a bit rich that you can't download the patch even if you do. Also the license includes Javascript and HTML as text. I wonder if this is due to a hypothetical previous patch turning stuff off for safety? Can I be bothered tracking it down at this time of year, when there is such wonderful televi... hmm.
Glowing balls of stuff (plasma?) have been known to pass through solid objects (you don't want them to do that to you!) and reflect (and emit) photons quite easily. You picked a bad definition there. Note also that many things (e.g. wood or glass) are opaque to some photons (e.g. visible light or UV) but transparent to others (e.g. radio or visible light).
Oh, you mean in a bisexual film. In straight films the producers blatently hunt down the ugliest men they can find. Even some straight couples I know prefer bi films since they find that the ugly guys in straight films just put them right off whatever they were doing.
Bad porn. The french, germans and czechs do it better, except the germans dub everything badly.
And the english think they're making a pop video and so spend all their effort on getting good hairstylists instead of cute models :-/
That's an ellipsis (or possibly two).
Well when I was at university, a girl staying in my hostel said she had her great-aunts diary in which she talks about witnessing one of Pearse's flights. Perhaps that might be useful.
Apparently the boyfriend of the fitness instructor of the wife of the Prime Minister of the UK is a bit dodgy.
Never mind that twenty suitcase nukes have been confirmed missing from soviet times, north korea has been selling missiles to yemen, the EU has decided to admit ten new countries. The big news is that some Australian con-man is good at negotiating real-estate deals... Sheesh!
Next thing people will be claiming that Christopher Colombus discovered America - or at least the Colombia river :-)
But they did a great job capturing the Enigma machine from the Germans, in that "based-on-a-true-story" movie :-)
You mean like this guy? on a CmdrTaco day?
Apparently canadian cuisine is called "Kraft Dinner".
2K of RAM would be very useful (I got 640 bytes). Although direct access ROM is very nice (better than talking through a serial port anyway), having extra RAM would be lovely, letting you compress stuff better, and mix data by category instead of by whether or not it changes.