Well they've dramatically ditched "family oriented" in a big way and have gone to the other extreme. Nintendogs is the first game I've played where you get to leave excrement in your wake. And the things you can do with a stylus and a dog...
Nintendogs is about as original game as you can get. And Advance Wars DS is the most awesome strategy game you can hold in the palm of your hand. Advance Wars may be a sequel of a sequel, but unlike other franchises, this one actually improved with each revision. Maybe on platforms like the PS2 and PSP we see an incredible lack of innovation with one first person shooter after another. In fact, even on the GBA I see types of gameplay that are fun and different. The problem with PCs and high end consoles is too much power so the game authors seek to achieve only one goal: realism. In the low end market people realise that to sell a game they need to make something that's actually fun.
...but instead of underwater cameras the cameras should be placed in offices and the system should compare images of workers with a database of pictures of slackers. That way, the project I'm working on (which, coincidentally, is codenamed 'poseidon') might get completed on time.
Are you sure about her parking immediately afterwards. I personally think that people who drive round with hot coffee on their lap need weeding from the gene pool.
...you don't need to simulate sanity loss. Instead you try to reduce the player's sanity. I'm sure that some kind of hybrid between Doom 3, Silent Hill and goatse would do the trick.
What you're proposing is changing English usage rather than correcting it. Deliberately changing the English language like this is very hard and I doubt you'll succeed. But it's not impossible, eg. the change of the meaning of the word 'gay' within my lifetime.
I hate this constant bitching about the use of the word "hacker". Words are generally used to communicate. The word "cracker" is a word used by a small minority of geeks, and it's sole purpose is to allow the users of said word to bitch about the people who don't use it. It certainly doesn't serve the purpose of communication as most people don't even know the purported meaning the word in this context. Words whose sole purpose is to beat other people really aren't nice and the world is better off both without the word, and without those people who insist on using it.
They were caught when someone else at the store noticed that the roll had several odd breaks.
Presumably most people who tried this scam were actually intelligent not to give themselves away like this and that we only know about the people who come from the lower 1% percentile of stupidity.
I hope not. Based on my experience with these compilers they could probably get a 30% speed boost in OSX if they rebuilt it with the Intel compiler. 30% is not to be sniffed at.
It's interesting to compare how subject is taught in the US and the UK. Related to my claim of cultism from Americans I claim Americans have a bit of a thing about documents. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and so on. Things are very different in the UK. Amazingly the Magna Carta is more important to Americans than to Britons. I don't think that the Founding Fathers had much influence on the form of British government which still lacks a written constitution.
It's also important to note that much of Europe is still heavily influenced by socialist ideals. Whatever democratic ideas may have flowed from the US to Europe they were heavily modulated my those notions. Marx has probably had far more influence in Europe than the Founding Fathers. And I'd also like to point out that what you mean by "the form of government these revolutionaries were the first to actually successfully implement" is heavily influenced by your knowledge of what aspects of that government that survive until today. As far as I know I don't think any European state has laws dictating how a region's influence in law making is dictated by the number of slaves held by its citizens.
put the words of these people alongside those of George W. Bush or Bill Clinton
I certainly don't deny that the Founding Fathers were impressive men. The exercise you suggest is almost too embarassing to think about. But I suggest you spend some time in Britain, say, and listen to real political debate.
The stuff you have to do to get through a mathematics course can really stretch your mind in a way that many jobs don't. But I often see places where mathematicians could do well. I work in graphics. Look that the latest SIGGRAPH proceedings to be amazed at how mathematical the subject has become. Spherical harmonics, wavelets, Markov chain monte carlo, PDEs, hidden Markov models, Fourier synthesis. This stuff is commonplace nowadays and yet the industry is having a hard time recruiting talented people who understand this stuff fast enough. Even if you don't know these subjects, as a mathematician you'll blast through a basic course faster than people trained in computer science, or even graphics.
Do you have a point? I really don't get the attempted joke (I assume it's a joke) about Greek and "Olde English" at all. I'm really confused about what point you're trying to make about religion having changed (or not) in 200 years. The irony (I think you're trying to use irony) is quite lost on me. And that stuff about being doomed to repeat history seems completely irrelevant as I've never advocated ignoring history. Maybe you could explain a bit better to Beavis here. I suggest using complete sentences that are relevant to the subject rather than just throwing out insults (which you're not very creative with anyway).
How about the/. editors collecting up all of the stories about google into one posting a day? It's not that I'm completely uninterested in the subject. But multiple free ads for google every day is kinda annoying. But then, of course, the editors would have to actually edit.
I don't follow. Are you saying that writing database applications isn't bad? That's code monkey work. If you have a BS in mathematics, you have a mind that's capable of a lot more than that. I hope you're using it.
This, not Christianity, is the American religious cult. The belief that the Founding Fathers (capitalized of course) were gods and that every litle thing they said actually matters today in a world that they couldn't possibly understand. Different factions claiming that their group, and no other, really understood what they meant. The constant recourse to original intentions in the modern high tech world as if the acquired wisdom and knowledge of the intervening 200 years was completely irrelevant. The repeated quotations about freedom from slaveholders and middle class landholders whose main care was for their own financial interests and the interests of their social class. And the complete inability to step out of this groupthink so that both conservatives and radicals are almost completely incapable of imagining anything written by a Founding Father as anything other than axiomatic truth.
Not that I'm 100% negative about this religion. There is no doubt that the US has been economically successful as a result and that the liberties of Americans are at least on a par with some European countries.
I'll show you cheating. Here's a picture of a roulette wheel. It has two locations makrked '0' and '00' in addition to the numbers 1-36 and yet we're expected to play with odds corresponding to having only 36 locations. Now that's what I call cheating. People who 'cheat' are just evening up the odds a little.
...there's a human for every task. For every tedious nerdy task that needs doing you'll find some human who will not only work on it, but will enthuse over the subject matter and do their job well. Whether it's maggot farming or telling the time this is a wonderful thing. But there's no need to tell everyone else about your job.
My critique of the above arguments is a standard critique used by biologists when dealing with evolutionary "just so" scenarios. See, for example, some comments by Stephen Jay Gould. If I look intellectually lame, I think that's for others to judge, because I don't think you're up to the task.
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Well they've dramatically ditched "family oriented" in a big way and have gone to the other extreme. Nintendogs is the first game I've played where you get to leave excrement in your wake. And the things you can do with a stylus and a dog...
...before you've consumed enough calories to stay alive for another day?
...I'll be able to take my high score with me from the previous one. Nice!
Nintendogs is about as original game as you can get. And Advance Wars DS is the most awesome strategy game you can hold in the palm of your hand. Advance Wars may be a sequel of a sequel, but unlike other franchises, this one actually improved with each revision. Maybe on platforms like the PS2 and PSP we see an incredible lack of innovation with one first person shooter after another. In fact, even on the GBA I see types of gameplay that are fun and different. The problem with PCs and high end consoles is too much power so the game authors seek to achieve only one goal: realism. In the low end market people realise that to sell a game they need to make something that's actually fun.
...but instead of underwater cameras the cameras should be placed in offices and the system should compare images of workers with a database of pictures of slackers. That way, the project I'm working on (which, coincidentally, is codenamed 'poseidon') might get completed on time.
...you don't need to simulate sanity loss. Instead you try to reduce the player's sanity. I'm sure that some kind of hybrid between Doom 3, Silent Hill and goatse would do the trick.
If we're nice to hamsters, how will that prevent aliens from experimenting on us?
What you're proposing is changing English usage rather than correcting it. Deliberately changing the English language like this is very hard and I doubt you'll succeed. But it's not impossible, eg. the change of the meaning of the word 'gay' within my lifetime.
I hate this constant bitching about the use of the word "hacker". Words are generally used to communicate. The word "cracker" is a word used by a small minority of geeks, and it's sole purpose is to allow the users of said word to bitch about the people who don't use it. It certainly doesn't serve the purpose of communication as most people don't even know the purported meaning the word in this context. Words whose sole purpose is to beat other people really aren't nice and the world is better off both without the word, and without those people who insist on using it.
...the good scriptwriters are all working for HBO. It's pretty clear that there isn't a shortage of good writing, it just doesn't happen in Hollywood.
It's also important to note that much of Europe is still heavily influenced by socialist ideals. Whatever democratic ideas may have flowed from the US to Europe they were heavily modulated my those notions. Marx has probably had far more influence in Europe than the Founding Fathers. And I'd also like to point out that what you mean by "the form of government these revolutionaries were the first to actually successfully implement" is heavily influenced by your knowledge of what aspects of that government that survive until today. As far as I know I don't think any European state has laws dictating how a region's influence in law making is dictated by the number of slaves held by its citizens.
I certainly don't deny that the Founding Fathers were impressive men. The exercise you suggest is almost too embarassing to think about. But I suggest you spend some time in Britain, say, and listen to real political debate.The stuff you have to do to get through a mathematics course can really stretch your mind in a way that many jobs don't. But I often see places where mathematicians could do well. I work in graphics. Look that the latest SIGGRAPH proceedings to be amazed at how mathematical the subject has become. Spherical harmonics, wavelets, Markov chain monte carlo, PDEs, hidden Markov models, Fourier synthesis. This stuff is commonplace nowadays and yet the industry is having a hard time recruiting talented people who understand this stuff fast enough. Even if you don't know these subjects, as a mathematician you'll blast through a basic course faster than people trained in computer science, or even graphics.
Do you have a point? I really don't get the attempted joke (I assume it's a joke) about Greek and "Olde English" at all. I'm really confused about what point you're trying to make about religion having changed (or not) in 200 years. The irony (I think you're trying to use irony) is quite lost on me. And that stuff about being doomed to repeat history seems completely irrelevant as I've never advocated ignoring history. Maybe you could explain a bit better to Beavis here. I suggest using complete sentences that are relevant to the subject rather than just throwing out insults (which you're not very creative with anyway).
How about the /. editors collecting up all of the stories about google into one posting a day? It's not that I'm completely uninterested in the subject. But multiple free ads for google every day is kinda annoying. But then, of course, the editors would have to actually edit.
I don't follow. Are you saying that writing database applications isn't bad? That's code monkey work. If you have a BS in mathematics, you have a mind that's capable of a lot more than that. I hope you're using it.
Not that I'm 100% negative about this religion. There is no doubt that the US has been economically successful as a result and that the liberties of Americans are at least on a par with some European countries.
Ghastly it all is. Absolutely ghastly.
Don't explain it. Show it!
I'll show you cheating. Here's a picture of a roulette wheel. It has two locations makrked '0' and '00' in addition to the numbers 1-36 and yet we're expected to play with odds corresponding to having only 36 locations. Now that's what I call cheating. People who 'cheat' are just evening up the odds a little.
...there's a human for every task. For every tedious nerdy task that needs doing you'll find some human who will not only work on it, but will enthuse over the subject matter and do their job well. Whether it's maggot farming or telling the time this is a wonderful thing. But there's no need to tell everyone else about your job.
My critique of the above arguments is a standard critique used by biologists when dealing with evolutionary "just so" scenarios. See, for example, some comments by Stephen Jay Gould. If I look intellectually lame, I think that's for others to judge, because I don't think you're up to the task.