Not so much they didn't care as they were complete idiots and didn't realize how dangerous the radiation was. After the Manhattan test, the scientists behind the bomb went out to the detonation site and threw fallout snowballs at each other. When the people who are supposed to know the dangers are that oblivious to them, how do you expect them to protect everybody else?
Forgot to mention: The disappearing spaceships (the big space battle in Return of the Jedi was full of magical ships that would vanish into nowhere, blow up without getting shot, skip a few frames, or fly backwards) was because they were inserted into the frames. It's like the glitches in stop-motin movies like Jason and the Argonauts. The more things you have moving, the easier it is to screw up a frame here and there, and the harder it is to catch those mistakes.
Those ships weren't CGI, they were physical models. When a ship blew up on-screen, they were litterally sticking explosives in a model ship and blasting it to hell.
You can see boxes around most of the ships in the original trilogy (less so in Return of the Jedi, though) where the background is a bit off-color. They pretty much glued the pictures of the model into the frame.
Laser and lightsabre effects were rotoscped, and not CGI.
To the best of my knowledge, there was no CGI whatsoever in episode 4 or 5, and at best, maybe the laser and lightsabre effects were CGI in episode 6, but I think they were still rotoscoping them.
The special editions had lots of CGI, but that's a different matter.
The computer industry wanted to spread, for financial reasons if nothing else, and so they made the changes needed to make computers easier to learn and use for non-experts.
Not even just financial reasons. Society as a whole couldn't get the full benefit of computers if only a few people could really use them. Remember a long time back when there was a projection of a worldwide market for maybe 300 automobiles - any more, and you wouldn't have enough people trained to drive them all. So, a combination of widespread drivers training, and increasingly user-friendly cars, and not only do you sell an extra hundred million cars, but as a side effect, an extra hundred million people benefit from them.
But it comes down to what you can do during that uptime. No matter how much practice you have, you're not going to be able to do more than a few operations per second. My windows computer has had an uptime of almost twenty minutes (!) now, and it's probably done a simmilar amount of operations to your abacus.
He also killed THEIR men, enslaved THEIR boys, stole THEIR livestock, and burned THEIR cities.
And even so, the general mindset in most of the world running from, say, 10,000 BC to about 1800 AD (and into the 1900's in many parts of the world) was that women WERE property. When talking about such a society, saying the women were property isn't sexist - it's a fact. Were the black slaves on plantations property? Yes they were. That doesn't mean its right. it doesn't mean I think they SHOULD have been property, or that its in any way right for one person to be the property of another - it's just saying it how it was. They were property.
Thanks to the Mongol lifestyle of burning cities and raping women, they could have spread their DNA much farther in a shorter period of time - still not enough to account for everybody having Mongol blood, let along the Khan's blood.
I've seen guestimates that Khan may have gotten his y chromosome into as many as 1/3 of the Asian and Russian males alive today, as well as smaller fractions of the middle-eastern and European populations. I've never seen any hard figures to try to support this, but 30 generations isn't enough for one person to have a bloodline connection with everybody in the world - maybe if we had perfect worldwide random pairing in the gene pool, but some of us are still stuck over here in the shallow end.
Actually, he can't. He made no licensing actions while he was alive, and left no last will and testament assigning ownership of his DNA. Therefore, when he died, each of his children and granchildren inheirited a proportional amount of his DNA. There were no will and testament premises on the use of the DNA, so all copying his descendents chose to do was up to them - provided the owned the equipment necessary to reproduce the DNA, which Khan was nice enough to furnish them all with, with the help of all the women he raped. At death+70, all rights to his DNA lapsed into the public domain, however, so his DNA now belongs to everyone and we can copy it all we want withous his permission or anybody else's permission.
I won't point out the fact that you're wrong, and that there are chess masters who write, sing, compose, paint, or belch the Star Spangled Banner (which is intellectual enough to have a state championship here in Micghigan this month).
Why don't great painters do anything outside of painting?
Why don't great writers do anything outside of writing?
Why don't great *insert sport here* players do anything great outside of shoe commercials?
The artist does his own art, not all the other arts.
Assuming the computers are all the same power, there are still a few things that can effect it. As far as I know, at least some (if not most/all) chess algorithms aren't entirely fixed. Playing the same moves against the same program won't always trigger it to make the same counter moves.
Also, slightly different programs on each computer will make for different responses from each system. If all the computers were running the same chess program, then you might expect to see relatively static results (either infinite draws or very simmilar wins over and over).
Tic tac toe is a pretty simple game, and if both sides follow ideal rules, a win is impossible. The only real way to win is to hope you can trick your opponent into letting yo uset up a three-corner situation (take top-left and bottom-right first - if your opponent doesn't catch you at it, you can take top-right or bottom-left and have two possible wins, only one of which can be blocked in one move), but against somebody whos even slightly familiar with the game(not saying much), your third move will be needed to block them and not set up for the win.
HardOCP had pictures of their booth before it was fully set up. They actually had signs like "Deciet" "Lies" and "Flim-Flam" like the Penny Arcade comic. Tycho posted that at some point during the con, the CEO approached him and proclaimed that he had just killed a dog.
At least they're trying to have a sense of humor about things. Hopefully they'll be as amused as we are when they compare first-month sales reports with Nokia.
The travelers here don't stop and camp on the land. They just drive around and do doughnuts in the corn fields at 2 AM, then leave and hope nothing identifying broke off the car.
Here's why: 90% of games AREN'T fun. That 90% of games aren't visibly different from the 10% that are. So what's the difference? Well, that takes some analysis, and since we're not allowed to analyze entertainment, we're stuck forever with crappy games.
If Lara Croft didn't look like she did, I doubt anybody would have played Tomb Raider for more than ten minutes. The control (especially when jumping) is just plain horrible, and the camera angles, which sucked in the first release, only manage to get worse with every sequel.
Your logic doesn't work. Yes, it CAN go anywhere, but in most cases, it doesn't go anywhere. The Colecanth lives only in a rather limited range. It could swim right up iver to Florida and flop on out the beach and scare the children, but as yet, none have tried that.
Also, Arctic water is colder, denser, and less saline than the water in the North Atlantic or Pacific, and many of its animals die of shock when abnormally warm weather brings warm Atlantic water up into the Arctic.
TKO Software is developing a moderately successful MMORPG (originally developed by Asylumsoft) that's entirely in 2D. The defining thing of Fallout that goes bye-bye with the move to MMORPG is the combat system.
Like all good dictators, they don't want the people to get it. People who live under oppression with spoon fed government media long enough tend to be disbeleive that it's any better anywhere else. The NK government knows full well that Ghost Recon isn't a government project (at least SOMEbody in there has to have enough brains to know that and delude the people who matter), but the people aren't likely to be intimately aware of the inner working of capitalist systems.
The US posuturing over Iraq and Afghanistan may convince 90% of the world that they're warmongers, but remember that North Korea has been promising the world bitter defeat and sea of flames and all that shit for better than fifty years, now, so they have to really raise the bar on warmongering by grasping onto every violent video game, every explosion in every action movie, every killer robot on TV, and every dead cat in a car commercial as proof of the sheer scale of foreign warmongering, lest they themselves become warmongers.
I think it's because China allows some degree of free business now, so the people tend to realize that not all companies and media are tools of the government. North Korea, as far as I know, still keeps pretty firm control of the economy, so its easier to tell the people that it works that way everywhere else too. Not that the people neccessarily believe that, but it isn't the people that get mad and yell and throw bombs around.
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Not so much they didn't care as they were complete idiots and didn't realize how dangerous the radiation was. After the Manhattan test, the scientists behind the bomb went out to the detonation site and threw fallout snowballs at each other. When the people who are supposed to know the dangers are that oblivious to them, how do you expect them to protect everybody else?
Yes, but remember the Windows MO: If it can't do it out-of-the-box, it might as well not do it at all.
All the simplicity of Unix.
All the stability of Windows.
Didn't somebody at Microsoft think to reverse things? They'd be furthur ahead to try to fix what they have before adding what everybody else has.
Forgot to mention: The disappearing spaceships (the big space battle in Return of the Jedi was full of magical ships that would vanish into nowhere, blow up without getting shot, skip a few frames, or fly backwards) was because they were inserted into the frames. It's like the glitches in stop-motin movies like Jason and the Argonauts. The more things you have moving, the easier it is to screw up a frame here and there, and the harder it is to catch those mistakes.
Those ships weren't CGI, they were physical models. When a ship blew up on-screen, they were litterally sticking explosives in a model ship and blasting it to hell.
You can see boxes around most of the ships in the original trilogy (less so in Return of the Jedi, though) where the background is a bit off-color. They pretty much glued the pictures of the model into the frame.
Laser and lightsabre effects were rotoscped, and not CGI.
To the best of my knowledge, there was no CGI whatsoever in episode 4 or 5, and at best, maybe the laser and lightsabre effects were CGI in episode 6, but I think they were still rotoscoping them.
The special editions had lots of CGI, but that's a different matter.
The computer industry wanted to spread, for financial reasons if nothing else, and so they made the changes needed to make computers easier to learn and use for non-experts.
Not even just financial reasons. Society as a whole couldn't get the full benefit of computers if only a few people could really use them. Remember a long time back when there was a projection of a worldwide market for maybe 300 automobiles - any more, and you wouldn't have enough people trained to drive them all. So, a combination of widespread drivers training, and increasingly user-friendly cars, and not only do you sell an extra hundred million cars, but as a side effect, an extra hundred million people benefit from them.
But it comes down to what you can do during that uptime. No matter how much practice you have, you're not going to be able to do more than a few operations per second. My windows computer has had an uptime of almost twenty minutes (!) now, and it's probably done a simmilar amount of operations to your abacus.
The extra 150 days isn't costing a million a day, though, only about $100,000 a day.
He also killed THEIR men, enslaved THEIR boys, stole THEIR livestock, and burned THEIR cities. And even so, the general mindset in most of the world running from, say, 10,000 BC to about 1800 AD (and into the 1900's in many parts of the world) was that women WERE property. When talking about such a society, saying the women were property isn't sexist - it's a fact. Were the black slaves on plantations property? Yes they were. That doesn't mean its right. it doesn't mean I think they SHOULD have been property, or that its in any way right for one person to be the property of another - it's just saying it how it was. They were property.
Thanks to the Mongol lifestyle of burning cities and raping women, they could have spread their DNA much farther in a shorter period of time - still not enough to account for everybody having Mongol blood, let along the Khan's blood.
I've seen guestimates that Khan may have gotten his y chromosome into as many as 1/3 of the Asian and Russian males alive today, as well as smaller fractions of the middle-eastern and European populations. I've never seen any hard figures to try to support this, but 30 generations isn't enough for one person to have a bloodline connection with everybody in the world - maybe if we had perfect worldwide random pairing in the gene pool, but some of us are still stuck over here in the shallow end.
Actually, he can't. He made no licensing actions while he was alive, and left no last will and testament assigning ownership of his DNA. Therefore, when he died, each of his children and granchildren inheirited a proportional amount of his DNA. There were no will and testament premises on the use of the DNA, so all copying his descendents chose to do was up to them - provided the owned the equipment necessary to reproduce the DNA, which Khan was nice enough to furnish them all with, with the help of all the women he raped. At death+70, all rights to his DNA lapsed into the public domain, however, so his DNA now belongs to everyone and we can copy it all we want withous his permission or anybody else's permission.
I won't point out the fact that you're wrong, and that there are chess masters who write, sing, compose, paint, or belch the Star Spangled Banner (which is intellectual enough to have a state championship here in Micghigan this month). Why don't great painters do anything outside of painting? Why don't great writers do anything outside of writing? Why don't great *insert sport here* players do anything great outside of shoe commercials? The artist does his own art, not all the other arts.
And I have a baltantly Italian last name. Guess I'm not from around here? What's you're name? I bet its blatantly forign too.
Assuming the computers are all the same power, there are still a few things that can effect it. As far as I know, at least some (if not most/all) chess algorithms aren't entirely fixed. Playing the same moves against the same program won't always trigger it to make the same counter moves.
Also, slightly different programs on each computer will make for different responses from each system. If all the computers were running the same chess program, then you might expect to see relatively static results (either infinite draws or very simmilar wins over and over).
Tic tac toe is a pretty simple game, and if both sides follow ideal rules, a win is impossible. The only real way to win is to hope you can trick your opponent into letting yo uset up a three-corner situation (take top-left and bottom-right first - if your opponent doesn't catch you at it, you can take top-right or bottom-left and have two possible wins, only one of which can be blocked in one move), but against somebody whos even slightly familiar with the game(not saying much), your third move will be needed to block them and not set up for the win.
Not really excited. The concensus has slid from "hoax" to "stupidity" and is now leaning towards "The Next N-Gage."
HardOCP had pictures of their booth before it was fully set up. They actually had signs like "Deciet" "Lies" and "Flim-Flam" like the Penny Arcade comic. Tycho posted that at some point during the con, the CEO approached him and proclaimed that he had just killed a dog. At least they're trying to have a sense of humor about things. Hopefully they'll be as amused as we are when they compare first-month sales reports with Nokia.
Their 8k filed in March.
Last year, when I saw simmilar data, they had a development budget of 0. Now, they actually have development expenses of $259,407.
On the other hand, they spent $320,000 on litigation.
The travelers here don't stop and camp on the land. They just drive around and do doughnuts in the corn fields at 2 AM, then leave and hope nothing identifying broke off the car.
The difference is.. ?
Orcs are green?
Here's why: 90% of games AREN'T fun. That 90% of games aren't visibly different from the 10% that are. So what's the difference? Well, that takes some analysis, and since we're not allowed to analyze entertainment, we're stuck forever with crappy games.
If Lara Croft didn't look like she did, I doubt anybody would have played Tomb Raider for more than ten minutes. The control (especially when jumping) is just plain horrible, and the camera angles, which sucked in the first release, only manage to get worse with every sequel.
Your logic doesn't work. Yes, it CAN go anywhere, but in most cases, it doesn't go anywhere. The Colecanth lives only in a rather limited range. It could swim right up iver to Florida and flop on out the beach and scare the children, but as yet, none have tried that. Also, Arctic water is colder, denser, and less saline than the water in the North Atlantic or Pacific, and many of its animals die of shock when abnormally warm weather brings warm Atlantic water up into the Arctic.
TKO Software is developing a moderately successful MMORPG (originally developed by Asylumsoft) that's entirely in 2D. The defining thing of Fallout that goes bye-bye with the move to MMORPG is the combat system.
Like all good dictators, they don't want the people to get it. People who live under oppression with spoon fed government media long enough tend to be disbeleive that it's any better anywhere else. The NK government knows full well that Ghost Recon isn't a government project (at least SOMEbody in there has to have enough brains to know that and delude the people who matter), but the people aren't likely to be intimately aware of the inner working of capitalist systems.
The US posuturing over Iraq and Afghanistan may convince 90% of the world that they're warmongers, but remember that North Korea has been promising the world bitter defeat and sea of flames and all that shit for better than fifty years, now, so they have to really raise the bar on warmongering by grasping onto every violent video game, every explosion in every action movie, every killer robot on TV, and every dead cat in a car commercial as proof of the sheer scale of foreign warmongering, lest they themselves become warmongers.
I think it's because China allows some degree of free business now, so the people tend to realize that not all companies and media are tools of the government. North Korea, as far as I know, still keeps pretty firm control of the economy, so its easier to tell the people that it works that way everywhere else too. Not that the people neccessarily believe that, but it isn't the people that get mad and yell and throw bombs around.