Just as synthesizers were the end of "real" musicians, photography was the end of "real" paintings, etc.
It could easily be argued that pitch correction and sampling ruined popular music, and things like photoshop and other image modifications have ruined the visual arts.
I'd also like to point out that the Wikipedia Page lead me on a chain from that into Web 2.0, Tag clouds, and Folksonomy. I want to know two things: Who is actually using these buzzwords in real development work, and why are all the names so stupid (especially "folksonomy")?
That's true, why is it that only journalists have held steadfastly on to the pun, while everyone else has let it die (except the Japanese)? Maybe I don't talk to enough newspaper-reading folks, but I find it detracts from my interest in the story when I find the title was an awful pun instead of an actual description of the news.
Sorry if I'm "out of the loop", but what exactly IS "cloud computing"? I keep hearing this term to describe several (seemingly) unrelated projects, and I'd like it if somebody could break it down, or if that's impossible, just say "it's the latest buzzword, and means about as much in the real world as 'synergy'".
Oh yes, hardware problems are just annoying. Let's just forget for a minute that many people buy one computer, and often do not have much extra disposable income to upgrade or arbitrarily change hardware to run Linux. And then, if they even hear about Linux, it ends up not working for them out of the box (and just give up there), and less than 1% of users will actually take the time to get it working, and THEN they find that their favourite software doesn't have good clones.
No, actually, hardware incompatibilities and bad drivers are considerably more important. If you can't get your display running, who cares if the Gimp is crap or not?
The term comes from the Chinese themselves - the characters they use for themselves (can't post, thank you slashdot's lack of unicode) read "The Middle Kingdom". More poetically, "The Nail of the World" or "The Center of the World." More modernly, just "Zhong".
He said evidence. If there is evidence of such beings (hypothetical), it would be wrong of scientists to ignore it just because they're atheist, right?
Oh yes, the "old gods". Better watch out for something that has no evidence of existing. At all. I hope whoever modded you informative was making a joke.
Take the idea of a car racing game with cute characters driving. Miyamoto's gone to that well multiple times, but nobody else has scored big with it,
I seem to remember Crash Team Racing and Diddy Kong Racing being incredibly successful at the time, and both feature the idea of "car racing with cute characters."
/. posters are geniuses and they would have NEVEER made such a stupid error
Are you aware that it is entirely possible to, without being hypocritical, be critical of somebody's failures while at the same time not have the skill to do the same task? Most (trusted!) movie critics couldn't write themselves out of a box. I don't need to be a structural engineer to know that ignoring load limits is a bad thing, and probably a stupid mistake.
Aw man, you're making me want to play Diablo II again. I remember it clearly, as Deckard Cain Said: "According to HORADRIC lore the HORADRIC key can be made with HORADRIC alchemy by inserting HORADRIC staff and HORADRIC amulet into the HORADRIC cube. HORADRIC."
I don't know man. Even as big of an anime fan as I am, there's just something unnatural looking about the big eyes (and her skin tone) in the picture in the linked article. Maybe some circles find that "adorable", but to me it just looks creepy. Personally, I think it's because the anime/manga style is a stylized caricature of reality, and trying to duplicate that back into realty tends to look... strange.
If you want me to give you links where Amway/Quixtar was officially found to be an illegal pyramid scheme, then please just go ahead and ask me to supply them.
Yes, please do, actually. I only know of the case in the 70s where they were found to not be illegal per se, but that their practices were still a little shady. Everything past that, to my knowledge, is just people yelling about it with no real legal action.
HASSEN IJOU DA! (In the original Japanese audio, he actually says "It's over 8,000", which is funny because there are doubts the attendance was over 8,500).
That you felt you needed to inform me that Amway is known as Quixtar in the US tells me that you know a whole lot less about Alticor and its child companies than I do. Pyramid scheme or no, (and I like how that page just says they were sued, not that the suing was successful), I was talking about a company that, at the time, was called Amway in the US.
This is an awful idea. Amway had a policy on all their goods like that - if you don't like it, return it for a full refund. They lost tremendous amounts of money (mostly in the Asian mainland, but anyways) because people would return a product 90% spent to get their money back. No, sorry, there's no way the potential boost in sales is going to counteract nearly everyone with a brain abusing this for free games.
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It could easily be argued that pitch correction and sampling ruined popular music, and things like photoshop and other image modifications have ruined the visual arts.
I'd also like to point out that the Wikipedia Page lead me on a chain from that into Web 2.0, Tag clouds, and Folksonomy. I want to know two things: Who is actually using these buzzwords in real development work, and why are all the names so stupid (especially "folksonomy")?
That's true, why is it that only journalists have held steadfastly on to the pun, while everyone else has let it die (except the Japanese)? Maybe I don't talk to enough newspaper-reading folks, but I find it detracts from my interest in the story when I find the title was an awful pun instead of an actual description of the news.
Yes, very sad. Well, it would, except I haven't paid for "sadness"; I'm too poor to license the full range of emotions.
Sorry if I'm "out of the loop", but what exactly IS "cloud computing"? I keep hearing this term to describe several (seemingly) unrelated projects, and I'd like it if somebody could break it down, or if that's impossible, just say "it's the latest buzzword, and means about as much in the real world as 'synergy'".
When a scientist tells you he has all the answers in his field, he's a liar.
Oh yes, hardware problems are just annoying. Let's just forget for a minute that many people buy one computer, and often do not have much extra disposable income to upgrade or arbitrarily change hardware to run Linux. And then, if they even hear about Linux, it ends up not working for them out of the box (and just give up there), and less than 1% of users will actually take the time to get it working, and THEN they find that their favourite software doesn't have good clones. No, actually, hardware incompatibilities and bad drivers are considerably more important. If you can't get your display running, who cares if the Gimp is crap or not?
The term comes from the Chinese themselves - the characters they use for themselves (can't post, thank you slashdot's lack of unicode) read "The Middle Kingdom". More poetically, "The Nail of the World" or "The Center of the World." More modernly, just "Zhong".
He said evidence. If there is evidence of such beings (hypothetical), it would be wrong of scientists to ignore it just because they're atheist, right?
Wait, what? I know you're quoting this, but, uh, what exactly are they going to "come after you" for if you're not downloading anything?
Your post is also kinda irrelevant, as this is a push upwards in numbers, not down.
And even then, Adobe's installers would still take 30 minutes.
Wait wait wait, hope for REASONABLE copyright laws? What country are you living in, bub, cuz I'd love to move there!
So, then doesn't this become unconstitutional real quick if it tracks someone on or through private property?
Oh yes, the "old gods". Better watch out for something that has no evidence of existing. At all. I hope whoever modded you informative was making a joke.
I'll tell you what for: The more question marks you add on to your sentences, the more bandwidth I need. That's what.
I seem to remember Crash Team Racing and Diddy Kong Racing being incredibly successful at the time, and both feature the idea of "car racing with cute characters."
Bravo.
Sex with Animals!? There's no TIME man!
Are you aware that it is entirely possible to, without being hypocritical, be critical of somebody's failures while at the same time not have the skill to do the same task? Most (trusted!) movie critics couldn't write themselves out of a box. I don't need to be a structural engineer to know that ignoring load limits is a bad thing, and probably a stupid mistake.
Aw man, you're making me want to play Diablo II again. I remember it clearly, as Deckard Cain Said:
"According to HORADRIC lore the HORADRIC key can be made with HORADRIC alchemy by inserting HORADRIC staff and HORADRIC amulet into the HORADRIC cube. HORADRIC."
I don't know man. Even as big of an anime fan as I am, there's just something unnatural looking about the big eyes (and her skin tone) in the picture in the linked article. Maybe some circles find that "adorable", but to me it just looks creepy. Personally, I think it's because the anime/manga style is a stylized caricature of reality, and trying to duplicate that back into realty tends to look... strange.
Yes, please do, actually. I only know of the case in the 70s where they were found to not be illegal per se, but that their practices were still a little shady. Everything past that, to my knowledge, is just people yelling about it with no real legal action.
HASSEN IJOU DA!
(In the original Japanese audio, he actually says "It's over 8,000", which is funny because there are doubts the attendance was over 8,500).
That you felt you needed to inform me that Amway is known as Quixtar in the US tells me that you know a whole lot less about Alticor and its child companies than I do. Pyramid scheme or no, (and I like how that page just says they were sued, not that the suing was successful), I was talking about a company that, at the time, was called Amway in the US.
This is an awful idea. Amway had a policy on all their goods like that - if you don't like it, return it for a full refund. They lost tremendous amounts of money (mostly in the Asian mainland, but anyways) because people would return a product 90% spent to get their money back. No, sorry, there's no way the potential boost in sales is going to counteract nearly everyone with a brain abusing this for free games.