Janine Melnitz: Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Winston Zeddemore: Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.
I have a two-yea old, mid-range 42 inch Panasonic plasma and it suffers from smearing. Even though it has a refresh rate of 200hz, it is noticable on fast panning action.
I'm no expert, but I've read the "200Hz" means the TV tries to calculate in-between frames. This doesn't work well for fast panning action, which might be causing the smearing. Try to see if you can get rid of the smearing by turning this "smart" feature off.
Yeah, it's funny. It also contains a pet peeve of mine: don't apply the i/e rule of thumb to proper names! If you're not sure about the correct order, a quick google will help. Jaegermeister, Einstein, Heinlein, etc. Helpful Wikipedia reference:-)
'roguelike' simply means 'like rogue'. I think the poster has a problem with the term 'dungeon crawler', which indeed gives dungeons (and crawling:-) a little too much credit. But 'roguelike' seems like a perfect, if unhelpful, name for the genre.
Okay, I understand what you mean now. But read Richard Dawkin's "The Selfish Gene". He makes a good case against the ideas of group evolution / species-based evolution, amongst other things. The book as a whole gave me a much better understanding of how evolution "really" works.
The mixed-belief world appears to be the "fittest" world, as opposed to such less-fit worlds of all atheists or all Christians, as examples.
"Survival of the fittest" is about individuals, and does not apply to worlds. "Fitness" is always a relative measure, comparing one individual with its competitors. And while individuals are in direct competition with one another, worlds are not. A world can not be said to be "fit" or "unfit" because it is not in competition with other worlds.
...games like Smash Bros, Mario, Zelda, Halo, Final Fantasy, MGS... don't need to come out for Christmas to sell. They will sell in the millions no matter when they release, so why not spread them out a little more?
Probably because those games are system sellers, and the holiday season is when people are most likely to purchase a new system. These big titles are more about cementing your system's position in the market than about sheer profit (although, obviously, they do run big profits).
I have a feeling that if some one can take the pain and build a dictionary of such things, it can be done.
Why don't you run the code to some open source projects through your spell checker and see which unrecognized "words" crop up most often? If it occurs often in different projects, it must be considered "correct" to programmers. Of course this doesn't get you everything, but stuff like "ptr", "obj" and language keywords would show up. You could do it on a per-language basis if you want.
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Janine Melnitz: Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Winston Zeddemore: Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.
Being /., people would probably think it's a joke about the coding complexity of a sorting algorithm. ;-)
I don't get it. What has his subterranean arboretum got to do with anything?
You're absolutely right, but I was quoting the movie The Big Lebowski. :-)
Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
(Yes, I know I'm late to the party, just couldn't resist posting this. :-)
I'm no expert, but I've read the "200Hz" means the TV tries to calculate in-between frames. This doesn't work well for fast panning action, which might be causing the smearing. Try to see if you can get rid of the smearing by turning this "smart" feature off.
Yeah, it's funny. It also contains a pet peeve of mine: don't apply the i/e rule of thumb to proper names! If you're not sure about the correct order, a quick google will help. Jaegermeister, Einstein, Heinlein, etc. Helpful Wikipedia reference :-)
'roguelike' simply means 'like rogue'. I think the poster has a problem with the term 'dungeon crawler', which indeed gives dungeons (and crawling :-) a little too much credit. But 'roguelike' seems like a perfect, if unhelpful, name for the genre.
Shouldn't that be "wildly succesful at distorting reality"?
Hi, I'm Clippy! Did you mean "...but Windows seems to ruin everything." ?
Hmmm... "between inclusive" or "between exclusive"?
..."exhausted iRolling"? ;-)
Aren't most Java VMs nowadays JIT compilers? I don't know if the version(s) for Android devices do JIT, but if so, the answer to your question is yes.
Herzog Zwei came before Dune II.
Nah, Obelix is really bloated, man.
Yes... a temporal anomaly!
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Okay, I understand what you mean now. But read Richard Dawkin's "The Selfish Gene". He makes a good case against the ideas of group evolution / species-based evolution, amongst other things. The book as a whole gave me a much better understanding of how evolution "really" works.
"Survival of the fittest" is about individuals, and does not apply to worlds. "Fitness" is always a relative measure, comparing one individual with its competitors. And while individuals are in direct competition with one another, worlds are not. A world can not be said to be "fit" or "unfit" because it is not in competition with other worlds.
Probably because those games are system sellers, and the holiday season is when people are most likely to purchase a new system. These big titles are more about cementing your system's position in the market than about sheer profit (although, obviously, they do run big profits).
Why don't you run the code to some open source projects through your spell checker and see which unrecognized "words" crop up most often? If it occurs often in different projects, it must be considered "correct" to programmers. Of course this doesn't get you everything, but stuff like "ptr", "obj" and language keywords would show up. You could do it on a per-language basis if you want.
Hmm.. I think the moderators missed that Indiana Jones reference :-(
I haven't used Pages, but AbiWord is a good basic word processor, so that might be to your liking.