How are physicists so convinced that the missing matter from their equations must be in some kind of weirdo "dark matter" when we are still detecting galaxies in our own back yard?
I don't mean to criticize too much... but you feel so strongly about this, yet your job is to work with Office and know it at an expert level? Have you considered you are helping perpetrate the concept that Office is acceptable? In fact I'd say it's arguable that people like yourself are the biggest proponents of the idea that Office is acceptable, other than Microsoft itself. I'm guessing you are smarter and more capable than what should be required for whatever it is you are doing with Office. And the main reason for this is that the software's shortcomings need to be made up for, and in a big way beyond the capabilities of most of who the product is intended. So in a sense, your job is to make up for Office's shortcomings and make it acceptable - which at some level it must be (after applying your know-how) if someone's paying you to do this. Even if this isn't really the case, it doesn't sound like you could like your job much.
Cowboy Bebop was entertaining, forgot about that one, but I think I would still consider that on the level of a good hollywood campy action flick. I did like Princess Mononoke... actually I think I sort of forgot that that was Anime. Is it considered Anime by real fans or is it categorized with mainstreem cartoons? Metropolis had some merits.. a lot of great visuals and art, but the story was pretty predictable and also didn't make sense at some points (if I remember right). Maybe it's not fair to compare Anime to film.. looking for a Casablanca or Star Wars; I guess I am looking for an example of anime where it's good in all aspects. Most anime has moments which don't make a lot of sense and I think that is what kills a lot of them for me. Is that mostly the translation or a cultural thing.. or maybe an Anime thing?
Sorry I have mentally blocked out episodes I,II,III.. you're right about those. Anime is just another medium, but I think there is a greater percentage of bad anime than bad stuff in other areas.. films, etc. Also there aren't even what I would consider a few good ones that make it all worth it in the same way that Hollywood isn't all Hellboy (and I enjoyed Hellboy). I am pretty familiar with anime, I gave it a lot of chances before I stopped looking.. because I figured there had to be something good. One concession I will make is that maybe it's the translations. Half of dialog gets translated to "huh?", so there must be *something* missing that could make the other half not seem so idiotic. I haven't kept up with Anime in the last 5-6 years. Anything decent come out in that time? Anything older that you recommend? Please don't say lain pleasedontsaylain pleasedontsaylain.
Anime is really pretty sucky. This is one of the best series anime has to offer, and it's not THAT great. I enjoyed it, but I'd rate it somewhere just above your average B grade Hellboy/Resident Evil sci-fi/adventure, and way below Star Wars or something similar. Akira is probably the closest anime has to anything great. And yeah, that probably tics the hardcore fans off that I didn't have to watch it at an anime con (one of which I have attended, where I realized Anime does indeed suck, there aren't more series like Eva or Akira, instead there's just campy crap where a pengiun walks into the room, starts eating breakfast or drinks a beer and the room erupts with laughter).
So back to Eva, I've heard the end few episodes are surreal and whatnot, not by design, but because they ran out of budget. You'd think with a format like Anime where special effects don't require millions of dollars, there would be all kinds of great stories that get told through this medium.
Let's face it, Anime is pretty poor. Someone should bring back stitching together different series into one... that worked just about as well as something new.
[i]Thirty years and quite a bit of inflation later we have the six-billion-dollar human: not a physical cyborg as such, instead an umbrella term for the latest developments in the growing field of technology for human enhancement.[/i]
So not really the six million dollar man, but we can't come up with anything more imaginative to say, so we, being geeks yearning for the pop culture acceptance that we claim to abhor, make stretch a campy reference as far as it will go. This isn't your father's Robbie the Robot!! Ho ho ho.
Because they weren't forthcoming with the information. Because of most of the reasons Britannica cited. And if it's just a "fun article", because they're having fun making a story out of a bunch of half truths. Poor journalism, poor research and they probably know it.
I don't read Nature on a regular basis but I'll go out on a limb and say if they are the most respected scientific journal in the world, they're overrated. They didn't even allow their research to be reproduced. Honestly that is all I got out of this entire ordeal, that Nature's news editors are assholes. I already knew Britannica had some errors. I already knew Wikipedia had errors, and as an active contributor, I know if you actually go hunting for it, you'd find more errors, bigotry, racism and a lot of editorial style writing.
because they charge for informaton.. but to anyone who bothers to read all of the articles it does look like Britannica has some valid points. Nature didn't even provide all of the data, and they don't even bother to address this point. Nature appears pretty dishonest when they point out Britannica only had issues with less than half of the 123 errors they pointed out. That's a large enough number when the difference was 3 - 4 to begin with.
Nature could have done a better job at this. I don't doubt that Wiki is only half as accurate as Brit.. I will still use Wikipedia, but Nature did a piss poor job to rush out a controversial story.
Britannica's days are numbered, but it doesn't mean they're wrong. I guess at least now I know that Nature's editors suck.
as much as he talked.. I wasn't convinced it all lead to a fun game. Everything he went over with the game made it seem like what the player does doesn't really matter.
It looks like you can create any half assed creature and it will survive long enough to build cities; that it doesn't really matter how you build your creature.
You can custom design buildings where the design has nothing to do with what it does - add a mushroom looking thing here for what?
The game looks interesting and I suppose will be fun for some novel interfaces and ideas... sort of like one of those pin art toys impression... but like that toy, you'll get bored of it quickly. It doesn't really look like a game any more than a graphics package looks like a game.
What was so great about Rise of Nations? I tried the demo and found it a bit clunky... hard to manage, especially battles. What does it have that's better than the Age of Empires trilogy or other RTSes? I might give it another try.
They just should have and could have kept using "could have" in the rest of the sentences. This is representative of the poor level of journalism today. And since everyone is yelling at you for pointing out this misleading error, which indeed it is, it seems they can't even tell the difference anymore.
Good point - I played WoW for a few months... I had some nice (looking) sets of equipment around 15-35th level.. after that I sorta didn't like how my character looked anymore or how any other characters around my level looked even when I got to 60th.
can we have a law that goes a little over board in terms of protecting people's rights. like a law saying that if a politician ever utters the phrase "if you aren't doing anything wrong, then you don't have to worry about X", then that politician can sentenced to death, treated as an enemy combatant, sent off to a concentration camp.
I can only be grateful that I'm not the poor chump who has to write their press releases.
You only need be grateful to your lack of writing skills and lack of experince.
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How are physicists so convinced that the missing matter from their equations must be in some kind of weirdo "dark matter" when we are still detecting galaxies in our own back yard?
Almost as insightful as your lame ass string substitution.
I don't mean to criticize too much... but you feel so strongly about this, yet your job is to work with Office and know it at an expert level? Have you considered you are helping perpetrate the concept that Office is acceptable? In fact I'd say it's arguable that people like yourself are the biggest proponents of the idea that Office is acceptable, other than Microsoft itself. I'm guessing you are smarter and more capable than what should be required for whatever it is you are doing with Office. And the main reason for this is that the software's shortcomings need to be made up for, and in a big way beyond the capabilities of most of who the product is intended. So in a sense, your job is to make up for Office's shortcomings and make it acceptable - which at some level it must be (after applying your know-how) if someone's paying you to do this. Even if this isn't really the case, it doesn't sound like you could like your job much.
Cowboy Bebop was entertaining, forgot about that one, but I think I would still consider that on the level of a good hollywood campy action flick. I did like Princess Mononoke... actually I think I sort of forgot that that was Anime. Is it considered Anime by real fans or is it categorized with mainstreem cartoons? Metropolis had some merits.. a lot of great visuals and art, but the story was pretty predictable and also didn't make sense at some points (if I remember right). Maybe it's not fair to compare Anime to film.. looking for a Casablanca or Star Wars; I guess I am looking for an example of anime where it's good in all aspects. Most anime has moments which don't make a lot of sense and I think that is what kills a lot of them for me. Is that mostly the translation or a cultural thing.. or maybe an Anime thing?
Sorry I have mentally blocked out episodes I,II,III.. you're right about those. Anime is just another medium, but I think there is a greater percentage of bad anime than bad stuff in other areas.. films, etc. Also there aren't even what I would consider a few good ones that make it all worth it in the same way that Hollywood isn't all Hellboy (and I enjoyed Hellboy). I am pretty familiar with anime, I gave it a lot of chances before I stopped looking.. because I figured there had to be something good. One concession I will make is that maybe it's the translations. Half of dialog gets translated to "huh?", so there must be *something* missing that could make the other half not seem so idiotic. I haven't kept up with Anime in the last 5-6 years. Anything decent come out in that time? Anything older that you recommend? Please don't say lain pleasedontsaylain pleasedontsaylain.
Anime is really pretty sucky. This is one of the best series anime has to offer, and it's not THAT great. I enjoyed it, but I'd rate it somewhere just above your average B grade Hellboy/Resident Evil sci-fi/adventure, and way below Star Wars or something similar. Akira is probably the closest anime has to anything great. And yeah, that probably tics the hardcore fans off that I didn't have to watch it at an anime con (one of which I have attended, where I realized Anime does indeed suck, there aren't more series like Eva or Akira, instead there's just campy crap where a pengiun walks into the room, starts eating breakfast or drinks a beer and the room erupts with laughter). So back to Eva, I've heard the end few episodes are surreal and whatnot, not by design, but because they ran out of budget. You'd think with a format like Anime where special effects don't require millions of dollars, there would be all kinds of great stories that get told through this medium. Let's face it, Anime is pretty poor. Someone should bring back stitching together different series into one... that worked just about as well as something new.
This is a perfect example of wh
but having some slashdot asshole in it will just make it worse
[i]Thirty years and quite a bit of inflation later we have the six-billion-dollar human: not a physical cyborg as such, instead an umbrella term for the latest developments in the growing field of technology for human enhancement.[/i] So not really the six million dollar man, but we can't come up with anything more imaginative to say, so we, being geeks yearning for the pop culture acceptance that we claim to abhor, make stretch a campy reference as far as it will go. This isn't your father's Robbie the Robot!! Ho ho ho.
Because they weren't forthcoming with the information. Because of most of the reasons Britannica cited. And if it's just a "fun article", because they're having fun making a story out of a bunch of half truths. Poor journalism, poor research and they probably know it.
I don't read Nature on a regular basis but I'll go out on a limb and say if they are the most respected scientific journal in the world, they're overrated. They didn't even allow their research to be reproduced. Honestly that is all I got out of this entire ordeal, that Nature's news editors are assholes. I already knew Britannica had some errors. I already knew Wikipedia had errors, and as an active contributor, I know if you actually go hunting for it, you'd find more errors, bigotry, racism and a lot of editorial style writing.
because they charge for informaton.. but to anyone who bothers to read all of the articles it does look like Britannica has some valid points. Nature didn't even provide all of the data, and they don't even bother to address this point. Nature appears pretty dishonest when they point out Britannica only had issues with less than half of the 123 errors they pointed out. That's a large enough number when the difference was 3 - 4 to begin with.
Nature could have done a better job at this. I don't doubt that Wiki is only half as accurate as Brit.. I will still use Wikipedia, but Nature did a piss poor job to rush out a controversial story.
Britannica's days are numbered, but it doesn't mean they're wrong. I guess at least now I know that Nature's editors suck.
as much as he talked.. I wasn't convinced it all lead to a fun game. Everything he went over with the game made it seem like what the player does doesn't really matter.
It looks like you can create any half assed creature and it will survive long enough to build cities; that it doesn't really matter how you build your creature.
You can custom design buildings where the design has nothing to do with what it does - add a mushroom looking thing here for what?
The game looks interesting and I suppose will be fun for some novel interfaces and ideas... sort of like one of those pin art toys impression... but like that toy, you'll get bored of it quickly. It doesn't really look like a game any more than a graphics package looks like a game.
Patent this idea, and then make sure nobody else can do it! Muhahaahaha.
Thanks, I think I tried to play it like it was WC3 or AoE, I may give the demo another try. The screens for Rise of Legends look interesting.
What was so great about Rise of Nations? I tried the demo and found it a bit clunky... hard to manage, especially battles. What does it have that's better than the Age of Empires trilogy or other RTSes? I might give it another try.
They just should have and could have kept using "could have" in the rest of the sentences. This is representative of the poor level of journalism today. And since everyone is yelling at you for pointing out this misleading error, which indeed it is, it seems they can't even tell the difference anymore.
Good point - I played WoW for a few months... I had some nice (looking) sets of equipment around 15-35th level.. after that I sorta didn't like how my character looked anymore or how any other characters around my level looked even when I got to 60th.
a non apple product getting a bad review and not being a feature article
I'm just glad it isn't another Apple product price change update. Though people have some how managed to mention Apple multiple times in the comments.
can we have a law that goes a little over board in terms of protecting people's rights. like a law saying that if a politician ever utters the phrase "if you aren't doing anything wrong, then you don't have to worry about X", then that politician can sentenced to death, treated as an enemy combatant, sent off to a concentration camp.
I can only be grateful that I'm not the poor chump who has to write their press releases. You only need be grateful to your lack of writing skills and lack of experince.
Wasn't it a main article at first? I guess it's not 100% flattering to Apple.
yet you still suck you dont know what above means ass tart
fuck off