If they're willing to put up with animated actors, why not animated games? I'm not saying that the nintendo games themselves aren't necessarily targeted at children, just that cartoon-looking games will still be accepted by adults depending on the gameplay and content.
When is the last time you complained about a VCR being too easy to use because it would "get more idiots using them"? How about a toaster? There isn't anything more dangerous about an idiot using a computer than an idiot using a washing machine.
I can learn how to tinker with all the mundane low-level crap that makes an OS work, but sometimes I just want to use it without having to work. I want a Fisher-Price UI that I can configure ad-nauseum if I choose to.
Who's making generalizations now? I'm not American, and I told you which languages I searched on. By no means was it a comprehensive list, just of a few of the more popular languages. There are probably language laws everywhere if you want to nitpick, but the French & Quebec laws are the more protectionist ones which, as the original post pointed out, ban popular words just for being english in origin.
Funny you should say that. I searched Google for "(language) language law", where I used "english", "german", "spanish", "chinese", and "french". Only French seems to have any usage laws. Curious. I'm fairly confident I can have an english conference in Germany, and a german conference in Canada, but neither in France.
Now how about the IT industry planning to fire 8% of it's US work force and move 3.3 million jobs to India and other Asian countries?
We need to sue/pass legislature/whatever to secure our jobs, damnit!
Because forcing companies to hire expensive labour is good for the economy? You're hired if your help is required for their business to function. If they can get that help cheaper elsewhere, then maybe you should consider a paycut or an industry change. Have you ever bought anything made in China? Taiwan? etc... If so, you're a hyprocrite.
Stop trying to pass laws that prevent natural change.
You've never had generic Cuban beer in cuba then, have you? We got into the habit of throwing in ice and lime wedges to cover the taste of the free Carribean Ice or Crystal on the resorts. The beer was free, but the extras made it drinkable. If they were pints of dark, no worries, but that crap needed additives to make it decent.
You may be right, but an air conditioner could be out of the question. Think about people on the road, in places where a laptop might be necessary. Inside trucks at job sites, travel hubs without A/C (airport, train station, bus station). Even commuting in some places on public transportation may not have A/C. I'm just pulling these off the top of my head and I don't have a laptop. He probably has a valid reason for needing a laptop in a place where the A/C is out of his control.
If she's a literature TA, I hope she'll know. If she doesn't, you might want to rethink your choice of college. To put this into programming terms, these essays compile, but they have link errors.
From the site (in case it wasn't obvious):
The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator.
It's a nice proof-of-concept on the programming/humour side, but of little value for Literature essays.
If they're interested in you, then they're probably not lesbians. Try bi-sexual, then you'll get something from the deal. A lesbian will probably feel the same about fanning you naked as you might feel about fanning CowboyNeal naked.
It will look like a bright or dark line on the edge of a polygon.
This is all a guess, but if you make the graphics look sharper by removing some of the other problems, you might have more cases where these lines become more noticable. You take out the big glaring obvious artifacts and you can see these subtle problems more frequently. Makes sense.
Does "Can't see the forest for the trees" apply here?
The process is designed to handle almost any waste product imaginable, including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, harbor-dredged muck, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper-pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil-refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores.
This info was posted to slashdot a few months ago.
I concur. Someone mentioned this program in the last slashdot story about geeks and their weight (can't find it in the search though). Since I started doing this, I've actually felt a lot better.
Additionally, it doesn't take much effort to join a sports team of some sort that forces you to run around once a week. Most large places of work will have their own teams in recreational leagues which are friendly to beginners.
Why Counterstrike? Why not just vanilla Half-Life? Why not Quake I? Duke 3D? It would be nice if there was some information on why CS was chosen over other alternatives. Does he want to use CS maps or is he going to design his own?
On the surface, this could be nothing more than an excuse to get some research grants through publicity.
Some Danish guy wants to use CS? Great. So do a half-million other people. Give us some meat to the story. I can't find any more information from a quick Google search.
I recently had a look at various ways to draw a graph (lines, bar chart, pie chart...) for a web-based enterprise application.
Thousands of dollars is par for the course when talking about enterprise applications. There was never any mention of cost limitations in the original article.
As with many things, it all depends on what you need and how you use it. You can definitely get interactive web-based charts generated on the server side using their PGSDK, but it may be a more comprehensive (i.e., expensive) solution than you need. They support just about any chart type, including OpenGL rendered 3-Dimensional bars, complete with texturing, etc... Overkill for most, but it gives you an idea of what's possible. Plus they run on all platforms.
(I don't work for them, but I have used their products)
I can get 10 Bics for CAD$2, which lasts me about two weeks apiece. So these would cost about $5 a month. A cheap Remmington electric razor goes for $50, but a good one can cost a lot more. This gives you, according to the instructions, about 6 months before you should replace the screen, and a year before you have to replace the blades. The blades + screen will probably run you at least $40 after the year is out (1 razor pack + 2 screens). So I spent $78 dollars on blades (throw in an extra $18 for a year's supply of $3 shaving cream) instead of $90 on electric, and the blades feel better overall anyway, with less irritation.
So tell me how you're saving money? If you really wanted to save money, you could invest in a straight razor.
You could always bail out and move to Oceana. I hear they have mild winters. Seriously, its a big planet. If you don't like what's happening, there are plenty of places to go. There's always going to be hints of Orwell's 1984, but if you push the people to hard they'll push back. Or maybe not. Whatever. At least you'll have something to do, rewriting those newspapers. 100% employment.
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If they're willing to put up with animated actors, why not animated games? I'm not saying that the nintendo games themselves aren't necessarily targeted at children, just that cartoon-looking games will still be accepted by adults depending on the gameplay and content.
I can learn how to tinker with all the mundane low-level crap that makes an OS work, but sometimes I just want to use it without having to work. I want a Fisher-Price UI that I can configure ad-nauseum if I choose to.
Who's making generalizations now? I'm not American, and I told you which languages I searched on. By no means was it a comprehensive list, just of a few of the more popular languages. There are probably language laws everywhere if you want to nitpick, but the French & Quebec laws are the more protectionist ones which, as the original post pointed out, ban popular words just for being english in origin.
Funny you should say that. I searched Google for "(language) language law", where I used "english", "german", "spanish", "chinese", and "french". Only French seems to have any usage laws. Curious. I'm fairly confident I can have an english conference in Germany, and a german conference in Canada, but neither in France.
Example 1, Quebec.
Example 2, France
Everyone in France/Quebec can speak whatever word they want, but if they put it into print they might have the language police after them.
Whoa! Like, dude, no Wild Stallion?
Stop trying to pass laws that prevent natural change.
I have two semi-distant cousins, one male and one female, named Strider and Arwen respectively. It's not Aragorn, but close enough.
You've never had generic Cuban beer in cuba then, have you? We got into the habit of throwing in ice and lime wedges to cover the taste of the free Carribean Ice or Crystal on the resorts. The beer was free, but the extras made it drinkable. If they were pints of dark, no worries, but that crap needed additives to make it decent.
You may be right, but an air conditioner could be out of the question. Think about people on the road, in places where a laptop might be necessary. Inside trucks at job sites, travel hubs without A/C (airport, train station, bus station). Even commuting in some places on public transportation may not have A/C. I'm just pulling these off the top of my head and I don't have a laptop. He probably has a valid reason for needing a laptop in a place where the A/C is out of his control.
From the site (in case it wasn't obvious):
It's a nice proof-of-concept on the programming/humour side, but of little value for Literature essays.If they're interested in you, then they're probably not lesbians. Try bi-sexual, then you'll get something from the deal. A lesbian will probably feel the same about fanning you naked as you might feel about fanning CowboyNeal naked.
Does "Can't see the forest for the trees" apply here?
This info was posted to slashdot a few months ago.
Go figure. I forgot the "e" in my comment.
Is food waste f-waste? Email is fine, ebusiness was tolerable. Give it up. It's old.
Don't be sorry. This guy could make and Ent stop and look at his watch. It's written like he's trying to impress a girl who's smarter than he is.
Better yet, lets get some "real" info about this:
Now you know.Additionally, it doesn't take much effort to join a sports team of some sort that forces you to run around once a week. Most large places of work will have their own teams in recreational leagues which are friendly to beginners.
On the surface, this could be nothing more than an excuse to get some research grants through publicity.
Some Danish guy wants to use CS? Great. So do a half-million other people. Give us some meat to the story. I can't find any more information from a quick Google search.
Thousands of dollars is par for the course when talking about enterprise applications. There was never any mention of cost limitations in the original article.
(I don't work for them, but I have used their products)
So tell me how you're saving money? If you really wanted to save money, you could invest in a straight razor.
You could always bail out and move to Oceana. I hear they have mild winters. Seriously, its a big planet. If you don't like what's happening, there are plenty of places to go. There's always going to be hints of Orwell's 1984, but if you push the people to hard they'll push back. Or maybe not. Whatever. At least you'll have something to do, rewriting those newspapers. 100% employment.
Are you forced to watch Sex and the City too? Five points if you can name the host of Trading Spaces.