George Lucas is nothing but a cheap hooker full of his own sense of importance - he seems to believe that somewhere along the way he became more than a story-teller, modern-day Homer, my ass. He can stick this myth-making shit up his hairy white ass.
Had the misfortune of watching the "Special Edition" of episode 4 last night and realised that extra cgi does nothing for the story (and it doesn't fit in seamlessly anyway) and most of the extra scenes are next to useless or ruin the impressions I always had of the characters.
I know I will go to this movie but charging for advertising is up there with shops charging for loyalty cards - How can anybody come up with the idea that it is worth something to a customer to give you their details or view your advertising?
Problem with DC was not a lack of advertising. It was a lack of proper advertising aimed at people who would want those games you mentioned. Dreamcast probably had some of the best launch titles around (in Ireland anyway) as well as cracking titles directly after launch.
But Sega chose to let us watch people have headshaving racing and such and thrill us with a their logo instead of putting some of the stunning ingame footage on our tv screens.
Very bad marketing. Sony can afford it because of the PlayStation ads when the original console was already heavily branded so PS2 was seen as something to follow this. Dreamcast meant nothing to nobody and Sega never let.
F# will be learned by people when managers and not university lecturers decide that it is something that coders need to learn or even when coders decide it's necessary for something.
Stop thinking that the world is out to make you use MS products no matter what. The businesses that do the employment and the people who should be advising them (cough -you- cough) are the people who make those decisions.
Anyone learning Computer Science should in no way be gearing themselves with any particular product
Any university offering courses in computer science is doing students a dis-service if it sends them out of the institution without an MS-centric, Linux-centric or any other square peg solution to fit any hole they come across.
I always thought the aim of education and particularly any discipline that considers itself a science was to teach skills and thinking which could be applied across the field so the graduates would find themselves able to adapt to any language or equipment that they found it necessary to use.
"What is there about borrowing a book that should make it a sacrosanct activity like confessional, or attorney-client privelege?"
It's not sacrosanct but basically the point here is that something as mundane as the library books I've checked out is none of the government's business - no matter what I intend to do with the knowledge I have gleaned from them.
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George Lucas is nothing but a cheap hooker full of his own sense of importance - he seems to believe that somewhere along the way he became more than a story-teller, modern-day Homer, my ass. He can stick this myth-making shit up his hairy white ass.
Had the misfortune of watching the "Special Edition" of episode 4 last night and realised that extra cgi does nothing for the story (and it doesn't fit in seamlessly anyway) and most of the extra scenes are next to useless or ruin the impressions I always had of the characters.
I know I will go to this movie but charging for advertising is up there with shops charging for loyalty cards - How can anybody come up with the idea that it is worth something to a customer to give you their details or view your advertising?
Problem with DC was not a lack of advertising. It was a lack of proper advertising aimed at people who would want those games you mentioned. Dreamcast probably had some of the best launch titles around (in Ireland anyway) as well as cracking titles directly after launch.
But Sega chose to let us watch people have headshaving racing and such and thrill us with a their logo instead of putting some of the stunning ingame footage on our tv screens.
Very bad marketing. Sony can afford it because of the PlayStation ads when the original console was already heavily branded so PS2 was seen as something to follow this. Dreamcast meant nothing to nobody and Sega never let.
F# will be learned by people when managers and not university lecturers decide that it is something that coders need to learn or even when coders decide it's necessary for something.
Stop thinking that the world is out to make you use MS products no matter what. The businesses that do the employment and the people who should be advising them (cough -you- cough) are the people who make those decisions.
Anyone learning Computer Science should in no way be gearing themselves with any particular product
Any university offering courses in computer science is doing students a dis-service if it sends them out of the institution without an MS-centric, Linux-centric or any other square peg solution to fit any hole they come across.
I always thought the aim of education and particularly any discipline that considers itself a science was to teach skills and thinking which could be applied across the field so the graduates would find themselves able to adapt to any language or equipment that they found it necessary to use.
It's not sacrosanct but basically the point here is that something as mundane as the library books I've checked out is none of the government's business - no matter what I intend to do with the knowledge I have gleaned from them.