Just because you're not earning money does not mean you're losing it.
Well, there is something in economics called opportunity cost. But if you'll re-read my post you'll note that I never once said losing money -- that appears to have been your axe to grind -- only that it would cost you as you will still have to pay for things such as taxes.
Non-sequitur. Waiting does cost you nothing, because you are free to do other things while waiting.
For those who want to setup a solar farm and sell the energy back onto the market, waiting does cost you quite a bit. At the very least, even if you're independently wealthy and don't need any income while you wait, the land will always require some form of government tax/levy to maintain.
And probably about $300 worth of subscription costs to several MMO games. Man, they should find a way to combine those "get paid to surf" programs with MMOGs so that some gamers can at least afford rent after they pay their monthly game tax.
Not only can you have your face rendered onto characters, but companies can hook into some global advertising database (eg: combination of Safeway club card, Airmiles, and other reward programs) and poll your shopping preferences. The characters can then sport jackets and shirts with your favorite clothing brand, drink from cans of your favorite soda, and drive your preferred brand of car. Oh, the possibilities are limitless!
Add in text-to-speech technology and maybe in the future they'll ask you to recite a few paragraphs so that the computer can learn your speech patterns, then the character will talk using your voice. Combine this with speech-to-text, and someone can have a video conference with someone else using your face and voice. They speak, it's converted to text, and then output as speech in your voice on the other end. Hello identity theft!
There's very little "competition" in the land of FOSS, and the various maintainers and developers have every right to bitch about stuff like this if they want.
Sure, anybody has the right to bitch about anything they want. The argument against closed source is that if you don't like the way something is done, too bad... there's nothing you can do but bitch to the developers. Ergo, if it's open source there's something you *can* do other than just bitch about it.
OpenOffice.org is released as an open-source license, right? So if they have such a big beef with the direction it's going, then someone can create a fork of the project and put the work into ridding it of this supposedly undesireable Java dependency. Or pick up the codebase, write all the currently java-dependent code in C++ and submit it as a patch.
To me, this sounds like a bunch of politicians and lobby activists trying to make the most noise so that they achieve their respective ideological agendas. As an end-user of OO.o, I really don't care either way as long as the functionality is there. And, afaik, the current Java license allows for redistribution of the Java Runtime Environment so they can't retroactively pull that license and prevent people from doing something they've already granted.
A BEE CEE DEE EE FEE GEE, HEE I JEE KEE LEE MEE NEE O PEE, QEE REE SEE, TEE U VEE, WEE EX YEE and ZEE.
Why say "AITCH" when you can not all that extra crap and just say "HEE"? And how silly is it to use up extra consonants to say "JAY" when we can simply use "JEE"?
Interesting how it's perfectly acceptable for you to use other consonants with different patterns, but you can't consider Z among them, even though the original way of pronouncing Z is ZED.
Well we all have that (those of us that share the alphabet). I always thought it deserved its own name, but what can you do. Besides, it looks more "Double V".
The Roman way of writing U looks exactly like a V. See this article for info. So VV literally is a double U, as that's how they wrote the letter U.
I really do believe sometimes microsoft changes things just because they can, not because they should.
You mean like many other companies in many industries do? How many cars can you think of that have technological improvements from the previous year's model but have exactly the same body styling?
Some people purchase operating systems, vehicles, appliances, etc. based solely upon technical excellence, while others choose based upon style first as long as it meets their other needs.
And I don't live in an igloo, or eat blubber, or own a dogsled.
And I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm certain they're really, really nice.
I have a Prime Minister, not a President.
I speak English and French, NOT American. and I pronounce it 'ABOUT', NOT 'A BOOT'.
I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack. I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing. DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation, AND THAT THE BEAVER IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.
A TOQUE IS A HAT, A CHESTERFIELD IS A COUCH, AND IT IS PRONOUCED 'ZED' NOT 'ZEE', 'ZED'!!!
CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS! THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY! AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!
Both sentences can be parsed in either of two ways: Time(noun) flies(verb) like an arrow, or Time(adjective) flies(noun) like an arrow. Don't ask me what a time fly is. It might be some sort of time-travelling insect that's out to destroy us all. I don't want to think about it. The point is, a computer cannot consistently eliminate such possibilities, and therefore has a difficult time figuring out what you're talking about.
A computer would have no more difficulty than we would. Most people upon first hearing the time flies/fruit flies thing don't get it. Then, after thinking and sorting it out, they choose the one which has the best probability based upon context. Many words have multiple meanings, especially in English, and generally the correct meaning is easily identified based upon what is being discussed.
The real trick is in getting a computer to have the requisite background experience to derive that context. However, assuming that (large hand waving going on here) then the rest is easy (for large values of easy).
Anybody got a handy chaos theorist? Anybody? Seriously, I need a chaos theorist, oily hair, glasses, fuzzy math skills, preferably debauched.
Alternatively do any of you know anything about UNIX systems?
No problem. When the T-Rexes start attacking, we can simply get our handy chaos theorist to upload a virus into the mother T-Rex and just pray that the T-Rex is Mac compatible.
I'm sorry, but why did they have to put it inside a transport helicoptor? Couldn't they just have attached a tether or something?
Sorry, but this was an African helicopter and it would have become too laden. Now, if they had two helicopters, they could have attached a tether between the dorsal assembly.
I share your sentiments. One difference between movies and games is that, in a movie, you can generally tell when somebody's being productive. For example, either the lights get setup correctly and on time or they don't. You can tell when someone's slacking. There are more creative aspects to it, such as makeup or costumes. You might get your makeup and costumes done on time, but they could suck. So you might end up spending a bit more to get the makeup/costumes done the way you really want.
The reason why this works for the movie industry is that you're not required to employ the same costume maker for your next film. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it each film's crew is allocated at the beginning and disbanded at the end. The good people on a crew keep getting invited back to do more and more work, and the bad ones just don't get invited back. So it's somewhat self-regulating.
For this to work for games, perhaps game development would have to go this route. The current structure where you have companies with permanent employees might suffer from the "I have seniority, you can't fire me" syndrome that plagues some unions. So if EA (the studio) wants to develop a "FooBar III: Hot Pants" game they provide funding to start a "FooBar III Productions Inc." corporation. That corporation then pulls the talent it needs from the local unions, they make the game, and then the company disbands afterwards. Another game comes along, just setup another company. It's a close-knit community so the slackers can't slack for long before they're essentially blacklisted as nobody wants to hire them.
I'd love to see EA outsource Madden football development to India. A country that doesn't even play American football.
Why couldn't they? Or would you suggest also that American programmers are incapable of developing a cricket or rugby game if they've never played it before?
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Rather than pop-up ads, I'm fully in support of pop-under ads, the kind that only show when you turn the TV off.
Just because you're not earning money does not mean you're losing it.
Well, there is something in economics called opportunity cost. But if you'll re-read my post you'll note that I never once said losing money -- that appears to have been your axe to grind -- only that it would cost you as you will still have to pay for things such as taxes.
Non-sequitur. Waiting does cost you nothing, because you are free to do other things while waiting.
For those who want to setup a solar farm and sell the energy back onto the market, waiting does cost you quite a bit. At the very least, even if you're independently wealthy and don't need any income while you wait, the land will always require some form of government tax/levy to maintain.
And probably about $300 worth of subscription costs to several MMO games. Man, they should find a way to combine those "get paid to surf" programs with MMOGs so that some gamers can at least afford rent after they pay their monthly game tax.
How exactly is this going to enable me to make free long distance calls?
So don't distribute OO.o along with the OS. Make it separate. Kinda like how most here think Microsoft should keep their apps separate from Windows.
Not only can you have your face rendered onto characters, but companies can hook into some global advertising database (eg: combination of Safeway club card, Airmiles, and other reward programs) and poll your shopping preferences. The characters can then sport jackets and shirts with your favorite clothing brand, drink from cans of your favorite soda, and drive your preferred brand of car. Oh, the possibilities are limitless!
Add in text-to-speech technology and maybe in the future they'll ask you to recite a few paragraphs so that the computer can learn your speech patterns, then the character will talk using your voice. Combine this with speech-to-text, and someone can have a video conference with someone else using your face and voice. They speak, it's converted to text, and then output as speech in your voice on the other end. Hello identity theft!
There's very little "competition" in the land of FOSS, and the various maintainers and developers have every right to bitch about stuff like this if they want.
Sure, anybody has the right to bitch about anything they want. The argument against closed source is that if you don't like the way something is done, too bad... there's nothing you can do but bitch to the developers. Ergo, if it's open source there's something you *can* do other than just bitch about it.
OpenOffice.org is released as an open-source license, right? So if they have such a big beef with the direction it's going, then someone can create a fork of the project and put the work into ridding it of this supposedly undesireable Java dependency. Or pick up the codebase, write all the currently java-dependent code in C++ and submit it as a patch.
To me, this sounds like a bunch of politicians and lobby activists trying to make the most noise so that they achieve their respective ideological agendas. As an end-user of OO.o, I really don't care either way as long as the functionality is there. And, afaik, the current Java license allows for redistribution of the Java Runtime Environment so they can't retroactively pull that license and prevent people from doing something they've already granted.
Also, patenet claims SHOULD also include proof that the design wasn't come upon independently and without using any of the claimers work.
And how do you propose this proof should work? That boils down to a he said/she said situation unless there's some blatant copying going on.
Firiona is not a bad name. I rather like the sound of it. In fact, it is a substantially better choice than, say, "Apple".
First thing that comes to mind isn't EQ when I hear that. It's Carly Fiorina, of HPAQ notoriety.
Right. So by your methodology, we should have:
A BEE CEE DEE EE FEE GEE,
HEE I JEE KEE LEE MEE NEE O PEE,
QEE REE SEE,
TEE U VEE,
WEE EX YEE and ZEE.
Why say "AITCH" when you can not all that extra crap and just say "HEE"? And how silly is it to use up extra consonants to say "JAY" when we can simply use "JEE"?
Interesting how it's perfectly acceptable for you to use other consonants with different patterns, but you can't consider Z among them, even though the original way of pronouncing Z is ZED.
Well we all have that (those of us that share the alphabet). I always thought it deserved its own name, but what can you do. Besides, it looks more "Double V".
The Roman way of writing U looks exactly like a V. See this article for info. So VV literally is a double U, as that's how they wrote the letter U.
I really do believe sometimes microsoft changes things just because they can, not because they should.
You mean like many other companies in many industries do? How many cars can you think of that have technological improvements from the previous year's model but have exactly the same body styling?
Some people purchase operating systems, vehicles, appliances, etc. based solely upon technical excellence, while others choose based upon style first as long as it meets their other needs.
Just curious... do you sometimes forget to hit return at the end of each line?
E! Online and Gamespy... hard to say which company's game reviewing I respect most...
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And this coming from a guy hawking an iPod pyramid scheme. Hm...
Oh yeah, so they couldn't bring a dinosaur bone back anyway.
Hey. I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader.
And I don't live in an igloo, or eat blubber, or own a dogsled.
And I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm certain they're really, really nice.
I have a Prime Minister, not a President.
I speak English and French, NOT American. and I pronounce it 'ABOUT', NOT 'A BOOT'.
I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack. I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing. DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation, AND THAT THE BEAVER IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.
A TOQUE IS A HAT, A CHESTERFIELD IS A COUCH, AND IT IS PRONOUCED 'ZED' NOT 'ZEE', 'ZED'!!!
CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS! THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY! AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!
MY NAME IS JOE!! AND I AM CANADIAN!!!!!!!!
Thank you.
Both sentences can be parsed in either of two ways: Time(noun) flies(verb) like an arrow, or Time(adjective) flies(noun) like an arrow. Don't ask me what a time fly is. It might be some sort of time-travelling insect that's out to destroy us all. I don't want to think about it. The point is, a computer cannot consistently eliminate such possibilities, and therefore has a difficult time figuring out what you're talking about.
A computer would have no more difficulty than we would. Most people upon first hearing the time flies/fruit flies thing don't get it. Then, after thinking and sorting it out, they choose the one which has the best probability based upon context. Many words have multiple meanings, especially in English, and generally the correct meaning is easily identified based upon what is being discussed.
The real trick is in getting a computer to have the requisite background experience to derive that context. However, assuming that (large hand waving going on here) then the rest is easy (for large values of easy).
Anybody got a handy chaos theorist? Anybody? Seriously, I need a chaos theorist, oily hair, glasses, fuzzy math skills, preferably debauched.
Alternatively do any of you know anything about UNIX systems?
No problem. When the T-Rexes start attacking, we can simply get our handy chaos theorist to upload a virus into the mother T-Rex and just pray that the T-Rex is Mac compatible.
I'm sorry, but why did they have to put it inside a transport helicoptor? Couldn't they just have attached a tether or something?
Sorry, but this was an African helicopter and it would have become too laden. Now, if they had two helicopters, they could have attached a tether between the dorsal assembly.
Because PDF is a subset of PS, therefore, it *IS* PS syntax, just not every PS operation works in PDF.
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Thanks for the info. And re: posting while drunk, consider a large grain of salt taken.
(me: I just hope you're handy with postscript.)
Fixed it for you.
You sure about that? Why does one then need a PS to PDF converter if it's just postscript?
I share your sentiments. One difference between movies and games is that, in a movie, you can generally tell when somebody's being productive. For example, either the lights get setup correctly and on time or they don't. You can tell when someone's slacking. There are more creative aspects to it, such as makeup or costumes. You might get your makeup and costumes done on time, but they could suck. So you might end up spending a bit more to get the makeup/costumes done the way you really want.
The reason why this works for the movie industry is that you're not required to employ the same costume maker for your next film. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it each film's crew is allocated at the beginning and disbanded at the end. The good people on a crew keep getting invited back to do more and more work, and the bad ones just don't get invited back. So it's somewhat self-regulating.
For this to work for games, perhaps game development would have to go this route. The current structure where you have companies with permanent employees might suffer from the "I have seniority, you can't fire me" syndrome that plagues some unions. So if EA (the studio) wants to develop a "FooBar III: Hot Pants" game they provide funding to start a "FooBar III Productions Inc." corporation. That corporation then pulls the talent it needs from the local unions, they make the game, and then the company disbands afterwards. Another game comes along, just setup another company. It's a close-knit community so the slackers can't slack for long before they're essentially blacklisted as nobody wants to hire them.
I'd love to see EA outsource Madden football development to India. A country that doesn't even play American football.
Why couldn't they? Or would you suggest also that American programmers are incapable of developing a cricket or rugby game if they've never played it before?