An interesting fact for you; India has the second largest English speaking population in the world. In fact, there is concern over the relegation of India's native languages, of which there are many. School is taught in English, and for some it may be regarded as a first language.
I'm going to go ahead and say that an Indian writer may be as competent as an American writer. I think the bigger issue is context and perspective; can an Indian writer offer an American audience the same perspective, from their different context, as an American author?
Sure, it's beneficial for a company looking to ease it's server load, but not necessarily beneficial for the user at the other end.
BT's reliance on client-uploads limits performance on some connections. I regularly have a little transparent graphical bandwidth monitor sitting in the corner on my desktop, and I've noticed how uploading can significantly cripple download speed (although, strangely, not always). It is also highly cpu and memory intensive.
BT has it's setbacks, but it has it's uses as well. For grass-roots file-serving, a home user can now serve big files without big bandwidth. For a business like Blizzard however, I see this as a step backwards in customer service.
Oh, one more thing.
MCSE's that don't know what alt-space-c does generally find out the hard way soon after meeting me. It's the lazy man's alt-f4, you can kind of mash it in (for those special goatse moments). There are so many shortcuts people just don't know about, even so-called professionals:)
I couldn't agree more. I went without a mouse for two weeks using winXP. Why? Long story! Anyhow, I became so familiar with the keyboard shortcuts, I was soon using the GUI faster than when I was using a mouse.
The keyboard shortcuts are faster (in general) than the mouse-work it would take to do the same thing. There are stumbling blocks, somethings are *impossible* with a keyboard, but on the whole I found a way to do most things. Getting the context-menu from an icon in the system tray isn't as fast as with a mouse, but it's not impossible. Selecting text in IE is impossible, but you can always 'view source' and copy from there.
I still use a mouse of course! They're indispensible, but I'm not as reliant on it. I do shudder when I see someone take as many as 10 mouse-clicks in what can be done in 3 keystrokes. Yes, the keyboard is powerful, and under-rated.
On-topic: I thought the whole idea of GUIs was to make the whole experience more 'user-friendly' for beginners. Maybe in the beginning, but looking around my GUI and it's myriad dispirit elements it's easy to see how a simple 'C:\>' would be a far easier to comprehend starting point for newbies.
As an Australian, I really wonder what exactly the labor party will do with it's foreign policy towards America.
The backlash against the war in Iraq. OMG it won't die! And since our next Prime Minister Lathem (better face it now than later) once called our present prime-minister Howard an asslicker when it came to US foreign policy, I for one will not be surprised that our politicians will be far more critical of foreign policy matters.
Not an opinion, just the state of this nation. God bless her.
Clay Shirky has an excellent article on his site about how online groups are their own worst enemy. Basically, he states that in any online community there will eventually come hordes of people who miss the point and spoil the fun for everybody. It's a great read for anybody who's ever been player-killed, trolled or flamed on the 'net.
I might add one exception I've found; puzzle pirates. When I tried this game during the beta testing, I thought I'd accidentally connected to the wrong internet or something. In general the users are helpful and benign, and there's hardly a mention of 'I w1ll 0wnz0r j00 f4gg0t!!'.
If I were being serious, I'd say they could probably stuff some sensors into a corpse. But I'd be ignoring what the vaccuum of space would do to it, namely quake 3 style gibs resulting from instant depressurisation. Actually, that would be a good experiment...
Why not use an organ donor? Or one of those people who want to have their ashes put into space? I'd do it, if I were dead, that is... better than being wormfood.
Is that why air is such a precious commodity in space? They need it to blow up their girlfriends? Must get mighty lonely up there:)
Griffith has created a prototype device to test the human eye.
I have a scientist friend who's currently researching myopia. I must tell him about this! I'm not too familiar with the nature of his research, but I do know that he's harvested roughly 3000 chicken eyes while gathering data... not sure what he does with them... sorry;)
The article is pretty vague about the workings and capabilities of this prototype. Does anyone have more information on this?
This is going to be a big dissappointment for fans of LOTR expecting more of the same from Peter Jackson.
The LOTR trilogy contains a beautifully realised fantasy world and an epic story with way more material than you need for a movie. King Kong is a just a fifty year old screenplay.
Why not come up with a new idea instead of remaking a fifty-year old idea? They want the name recognition and the fanbase. I wonder, if you asked five years ago, who's name would be more recognizable, Gandalf or King-Kong?
I think the big difference is that LOTR is a 900 page epic and King-Kong is a 70 minute screenplay, and it's going to show in the characters and dialog. Not to deride Peter's directing talent, but without the genius of Tolkein's story-telling I don't think his genius with directing is going to make the 100-foot monkey movie fly.
I read somewhere (sorry no link) that as animated characters become more realistic, they reach a stage where they are so realistic that it's disturbing and (paradoxically) seems more unrealistic. The gollum character got around this because he was supposed to be disturbing... or something... anyone find the link for that? Anyhow, how would they achieve the same effect with king-kong?
Don't forget what a flop the remake of Godzilla was.
As an Australian I'm not really surprised at our prime-minister's submissive attitude towards America. Mark Latham, now leader of the opposition and potentially our next prime-minister, once famously commented that prime-minister Howard was an 'ass-licker' while referring to talks between the president and the prime-minister.
It may have been a little imprudent to say so in front of the media, but he was simply saying what alot of people were thinking at the time. Maybe if American politicians had the courage to be so forthright there wouldn't be DMCA or Patriot or IP lawyers mocking your most basic constitutional rights so flagrantly.
Speaking of which, the 'licker' comment was made during the lead up to the war in Iraq. The assertion was that if we supported the US in their little WMD wild goose chase, then we'd be favoured in the upcoming free-trade talks (not to mention post-war contracts). I guess they stiffed us on the free-trade!
It might not be flexible, but it's very light. If it can catch dust flying at 14,000mph, surely this would be the perfect material for a bulletproof vest.
Ever played a gameboy emulator on a 19" monitor? Trust me, you could fit four displays on the screen and they'd still be significantly larger than a GBA screen.
Plus there's the 'horde of nerds' factor, who take it as a challenge to emulate/hack/install-linux-on the next big thing.
You know those stereoscopic "magic eye" pictures that look 3d when you go cross eyed? Well, in principle, the same thing works with two photographs taken from slightly different perspectives. When you go cross-eyed so the two images line up, your brain resolves it into a single 3d image...
Oh wait! They did that with the Virtual Boy! I guess it was highly forgettable...
Why have two screens? Why not have one long screen?
I'm not writing this one off just yet, it may very well be an awesome/groundbreaking/never-look-back innovation.
Australians aren't as "sue happy" as Americans. I've heard of people suing - and winning - with the most frivolous claims over in the states (warning: coffee is hot). Such cases would be laughed out of court over here.
If SCO started lawsuits in Australia based on their unsubstantiated claims and yet to be revealed evidence, Aussie judges would dismiss them and tell them to come back with a clue.
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An interesting fact for you; India has the second largest English speaking population in the world. In fact, there is concern over the relegation of India's native languages, of which there are many. School is taught in English, and for some it may be regarded as a first language.
I'm going to go ahead and say that an Indian writer may be as competent as an American writer. I think the bigger issue is context and perspective; can an Indian writer offer an American audience the same perspective, from their different context, as an American author?
Can't you get in trouble for monkeying with currency?
Very cool, though.
Maybe not so good for military purposes. I bet it's alot easier to take out a blimp than a satellite.
Sure, it's beneficial for a company looking to ease it's server load, but not necessarily beneficial for the user at the other end.
BT's reliance on client-uploads limits performance on some connections. I regularly have a little transparent graphical bandwidth monitor sitting in the corner on my desktop, and I've noticed how uploading can significantly cripple download speed (although, strangely, not always). It is also highly cpu and memory intensive.
BT has it's setbacks, but it has it's uses as well. For grass-roots file-serving, a home user can now serve big files without big bandwidth. For a business like Blizzard however, I see this as a step backwards in customer service.
No, I've been there too.
Oh, one more thing. MCSE's that don't know what alt-space-c does generally find out the hard way soon after meeting me. It's the lazy man's alt-f4, you can kind of mash it in (for those special goatse moments). There are so many shortcuts people just don't know about, even so-called professionals :)
I couldn't agree more. I went without a mouse for two weeks using winXP. Why? Long story! Anyhow, I became so familiar with the keyboard shortcuts, I was soon using the GUI faster than when I was using a mouse.
The keyboard shortcuts are faster (in general) than the mouse-work it would take to do the same thing. There are stumbling blocks, somethings are *impossible* with a keyboard, but on the whole I found a way to do most things. Getting the context-menu from an icon in the system tray isn't as fast as with a mouse, but it's not impossible. Selecting text in IE is impossible, but you can always 'view source' and copy from there.
I still use a mouse of course! They're indispensible, but I'm not as reliant on it. I do shudder when I see someone take as many as 10 mouse-clicks in what can be done in 3 keystrokes. Yes, the keyboard is powerful, and under-rated.
On-topic: I thought the whole idea of GUIs was to make the whole experience more 'user-friendly' for beginners. Maybe in the beginning, but looking around my GUI and it's myriad dispirit elements it's easy to see how a simple 'C:\>' would be a far easier to comprehend starting point for newbies.
As an Australian, I really wonder what exactly the labor party will do with it's foreign policy towards America.
The backlash against the war in Iraq. OMG it won't die! And since our next Prime Minister Lathem (better face it now than later) once called our present prime-minister Howard an asslicker when it came to US foreign policy, I for one will not be surprised that our politicians will be far more critical of foreign policy matters.
Not an opinion, just the state of this nation. God bless her.
They should let in hit the ground, for the sake of the possibility that once in a million tosses, the coin will land on it's side.
Clay Shirky has an excellent article on his site about how online groups are their own worst enemy. Basically, he states that in any online community there will eventually come hordes of people who miss the point and spoil the fun for everybody. It's a great read for anybody who's ever been player-killed, trolled or flamed on the 'net.
I might add one exception I've found; puzzle pirates. When I tried this game during the beta testing, I thought I'd accidentally connected to the wrong internet or something. In general the users are helpful and benign, and there's hardly a mention of 'I w1ll 0wnz0r j00 f4gg0t!!'.
If I were being serious, I'd say they could probably stuff some sensors into a corpse. But I'd be ignoring what the vaccuum of space would do to it, namely quake 3 style gibs resulting from instant depressurisation. Actually, that would be a good experiment...
Why not use an organ donor? Or one of those people who want to have their ashes put into space? I'd do it, if I were dead, that is... better than being wormfood.
:)
Is that why air is such a precious commodity in space? They need it to blow up their girlfriends? Must get mighty lonely up there
Griffith has created a prototype device to test the human eye.
;)
I have a scientist friend who's currently researching myopia. I must tell him about this! I'm not too familiar with the nature of his research, but I do know that he's harvested roughly 3000 chicken eyes while gathering data... not sure what he does with them... sorry
The article is pretty vague about the workings and capabilities of this prototype. Does anyone have more information on this?
to http://www.suntimes.com/output/answ-man/sho-sunday -ebert11.html
This is going to be a big dissappointment for fans of LOTR expecting more of the same from Peter Jackson.
The LOTR trilogy contains a beautifully realised fantasy world and an epic story with way more material than you need for a movie. King Kong is a just a fifty year old screenplay.
Why not come up with a new idea instead of remaking a fifty-year old idea? They want the name recognition and the fanbase. I wonder, if you asked five years ago, who's name would be more recognizable, Gandalf or King-Kong?
I think the big difference is that LOTR is a 900 page epic and King-Kong is a 70 minute screenplay, and it's going to show in the characters and dialog. Not to deride Peter's directing talent, but without the genius of Tolkein's story-telling I don't think his genius with directing is going to make the 100-foot monkey movie fly.
I read somewhere (sorry no link) that as animated characters become more realistic, they reach a stage where they are so realistic that it's disturbing and (paradoxically) seems more unrealistic. The gollum character got around this because he was supposed to be disturbing... or something... anyone find the link for that? Anyhow, how would they achieve the same effect with king-kong?
Don't forget what a flop the remake of Godzilla was.
As an Australian I'm not really surprised at our prime-minister's submissive attitude towards America. Mark Latham, now leader of the opposition and potentially our next prime-minister, once famously commented that prime-minister Howard was an 'ass-licker' while referring to talks between the president and the prime-minister.
It may have been a little imprudent to say so in front of the media, but he was simply saying what alot of people were thinking at the time. Maybe if American politicians had the courage to be so forthright there wouldn't be DMCA or Patriot or IP lawyers mocking your most basic constitutional rights so flagrantly.
Speaking of which, the 'licker' comment was made during the lead up to the war in Iraq. The assertion was that if we supported the US in their little WMD wild goose chase, then we'd be favoured in the upcoming free-trade talks (not to mention post-war contracts). I guess they stiffed us on the free-trade!
You should all try your own names.
;)
I tried googling on my name and I got no hits... I guess I avoid using my real name on the 'net most of the time
On your next linux distro cd:
warning: SCO might own linux
It might not be flexible, but it's very light. If it can catch dust flying at 14,000mph, surely this would be the perfect material for a bulletproof vest.
Ever played a gameboy emulator on a 19" monitor? Trust me, you could fit four displays on the screen and they'd still be significantly larger than a GBA screen.
Plus there's the 'horde of nerds' factor, who take it as a challenge to emulate/hack/install-linux-on the next big thing.
without a credible competitor for the moment in the handheld department
Somewhere, a lonely N*Gage is howling at the moon.
Because I cannot think of a single PC game that uses multi-monitors like this. Can anyone give me an example?
(Don't say Quake et al, they just treat multi-monitors as one big monitor)
Ok, work with me on this one.
You know those stereoscopic "magic eye" pictures that look 3d when you go cross eyed? Well, in principle, the same thing works with two photographs taken from slightly different perspectives. When you go cross-eyed so the two images line up, your brain resolves it into a single 3d image...
Oh wait! They did that with the Virtual Boy! I guess it was highly forgettable...
Why have two screens? Why not have one long screen?
I'm not writing this one off just yet, it may very well be an awesome/groundbreaking/never-look-back innovation.
Australians aren't as "sue happy" as Americans. I've heard of people suing - and winning - with the most frivolous claims over in the states (warning: coffee is hot). Such cases would be laughed out of court over here.
If SCO started lawsuits in Australia based on their unsubstantiated claims and yet to be revealed evidence, Aussie judges would dismiss them and tell them to come back with a clue.
...he's gonna be pissed!