That this hasn't yet taken over the male gamers' representations is the surprise for me.
It doesn't surprise me. Currently, men are overwhelmingly the audience for video games. I think it's fair to say that male gamers are, at the very least, no better than "average" attractiveness. So having incredibly attractive male pro gamers would end up making the largest part of the demographic feel inadequate. And if these guys are attractive at the expense of their gaming ability, they'll come to be resented for their lack of talent, and pros will lose credibility among gamers.
You see how this applies also to female gamers--if female pros are sponsored based on their looks instead of their gaming ability, what's a girl to do? If she wanted to get plastic surgery to look good, she could make more money and meet richer, better looking guys by being a model, and just play games in her spare time.
I think that the way forward in pro gaming will be for more companies to sponsor more and smaller tournaments instead of players or teams, so that more people have a shot at making money and becoming pro. "Real" athletes get sponsorship from shoe and equipment companies because of the notion that good equipment is important (clubs & balls in golf, shoes in association football, gloves, mitts and bats in baseball, etc)--that the right tools can have a certain je ne sais quoi that helps you perform better. Whether that's actually the case or not, it's at least possible in those cases; however in the context of video games it's entirely questionable. Does an nVidia graphics card or an AMD CPU really help you win better than the competition? You might see companies like Dell sponsoring players on the grounds that Dell makes wicked-good gaming systems, but even that seems like a stretch. Better for Dell to hold Region Championships and hand out substantial prizes to the top dozen (or whatever) finishers. That way, the winner is always under the Dell logo.
There are TONS of people who would switch. And they would all want drivers. And if you wanted to sell your hardware to these people, you'd give them drivers.
Except they'd be shitty drivers, like the ones plague Windows installations now. Each new driver required for a Mac is a "value lost" proposition, since either 1) it will be buggy and cause system problems, making the Mac less reliable and the "Mac experience" more frustrating; or, 2) Apple will have to hire developers (plus cajole the device vendors, probably with money, for documentation) to build the drivers themselves. That gets you high-quality drivers, but the cost is much higher than using only the small subset of available equipment that is well-documented and/or well-supported.
Yes, but the English word is hospital, essential a direct copy of the French (but done before the -os- turned into -ô-); likewise, the character combinations for byôin, hôsei, and kishôgaku are pronounced much differently in modern Chinese. But just as most present-day English-speakers cannot speak French, neither can most Japanese-speakers speak Chinese (but sometimes can get the gist of a passage by looking for similar words; it's how I started learning French).
Here's the controversy: evolution permits (not requires, but *permits)* a world in which God does not exist. This is clearly bad, since it means that it's possible for someone to break the theo-fascist programming using logic. So we need to outlaw anything that might possibly keep people from circumventing the brain-washing to keep them in control.
That is, learn English. Now, I know all the Japanese fetish pedants are going to come out and complain that English and Japanese are about as far apart from each other as possible, blah blah blah... it's all lies. Japanese and English have a *lot* in common. They're both hybrid languages, consisting of an older core vocabulary of concrete nouns and basic words (Anglo-Saxon: tree, man, eat; Japanese--wago: ki, hito, taberu) and an imported vocabulary of words for compounds, abstractions, and more complex things (French: hospital, Latin: legislation, Greek: meteorology; Sino-Japanese kango: by?in, h?sei, kish?gaku). They both misappropriate words and phrases from other cultures (compare English "bourgeois" with the French meaning of bourgeois or English clothiers' jargon "petite" with French petite). The big difference is that Japanese inflects verbs a whole lot (adjectives somewhat and nouns not at all), whereas English doesn't inflect much anymore.
Japanese honestly isn't really all that hard, despite what you've been told. All that about "verbs have no future tense" or "parts of speech are frequently omitted" is very easy to adjust to. Japanese culture is sometimes hard to deal with, but I think that's just because it's another culture--people go through just as much culture shock visiting France or Sweden as they do in Japan.
All that said, it's really worth your time (and money, if you're not too tight for cash) to take college courses in the language. The opportunity to interact (and be corrected by) native speakers is priceless, and even clumsy first-year students can help your pronunciation, rhythm, comprehension, etc etc etc (in particular if you're the sort to identify mistakes made by others better than to identify your own).
It is, in fact, explicitly not a EULA. It says that you are entirely free to use, install, copy for personal use, and modify The Program as a part of 'fair use'. What the GPL addresses are terms of redistribution, both of The Program and any Derived Works, which is something that is (strictly speaking) required for the redistribution of any copyrighted works, whether or not they are GPL.
It's only legally binding if you choose to redistribute it, otherwise it's irrelevant.
One of the requirements for a patent being granted is that the idea contained in the patent be reduced to practice.
So clearly MS's patent application will be rejected.
There are no C interpreters. There are C compilers, but those are more often than not simply bootstrapped from a previous C compiler. In the beginnging, though, they were all assembler. As was everything else
PHP? Whose crack are you smoking? PHP is like somebody's bastard stepchild, only with a lot more buffer overflow vulernabilities. Someday, people will realize how useless (and not to mention dangerous) it is, and throw the whole thing away. If PHP is the language for the future then the future is quite fucked.
Before the product's release, Apple could always just say it was a code name they weren't planning on keeping. Hence they had to wait until the official release date to demonstrate that "Tiger" is an actual product.
For shizzle. People are always complaining about "Oh, God, this product has such an awful name, my boss would never use it. I have a million better ideas for names!" But they don't get that, it's open source, so if you want to have a Fork In Name Only, you can go right ahead and do that. Just write a script that will changes all instances of 'Subversion' (or whatever) to 'Project Management Pro Elite'. Piece of cake.
Except that a cell phone tower doesn't prevent quiet enjoyment of their property. In fact, provided it is not on their property, it doesn't affect them at all, in the way that train sparks might start a fire. If you're going to allow people to file lawsuits based solely on property value, then you've basically opened the doors for discrimination of all kinds. Who's to say that gay couples moving in don't reduce property values? Or blacks? Or people who dry their clothes on a clothesline? Who farm using organic fertilizer? Who don't mow their lawns?
I hate cellphone towers and think they're hideously ugly, too. But, at least in this case, towers are certainly the lesser of two evils.
Evolution doesn't explain how life started. It doesn't even address that. It explains how more life changes over time.
That's pretty much religion hating science in a nutshell.
It goes back to the idea of the Great Chain of Being, a philosophical concept developed in the Middle Ages to explain why a supremely powerful and good God could create a universe with error and sin in it. The idea is that evil is simply a *lack* of God's grace, the "privation" of God's goodness.
Here's where we get into trouble. The Great Chain of being relies on the notion that greater cannot come from lesser, and that thing like the world, people, and even ideas like infinity cannot come from things of lesser stature--the world can't come from dust, people can't come from animals, and infinity cannot be conceived of from finite numbers alone. Hence, all of these things must come from something greater than they are, and that ne plus ultra of greatness is God.
Evolution more or less rejects that claim, and consequently raises the possibility that *all* complex things evolved from simpler things. Suddenly, there's no need for a God to explain anything: if people can evolve from animals, then the world can evolve from cosmic gas and infinity can be invented/discovered through the negation of finitude. Where would God fit in now?
As much as I hate to side with phone companies, 'cos I think they're ugly, I do like to see people who bitch about "property values" get rammed in the ass even more. I think it's bullshit that people are allowed to dictate to others what they can or cannot do based on the effect it will have on their property values. It's just yet another way to infringe on personal freedoms so someone else can get richer.
How about, everytime my sister launches YIM (on Windwos) it takes over the IE toolbars and sets itself up to load automatically the computer boots? No, that couldn't be it.
There's this interesting thing called personal information. Suppose I went to your bank and said, "Hi, I represent Ratfink International Assocation of Accountants. We suspect that zoogies has under-reported his net work to our accountants, so that our 10% cut is less than it should be. Please hand over all of his account information for the last 3 years so we can review it. We'll get back to you once we've made progress."
There was a time when knowing someone's Social Security number couldn't cause any real trouble. Now, of course, it can be used for all kinds of mischief. You think names and IP addresses will be far behind?
"H2G2" expands to "Hitch-Hiker's Guide... (the) Galaxy", whereas "HHG2G" expands to "Hitch-Hiker's Guide To (the) Galaxy". Hence it is the preferred version by all right-thinking peoples.
You *might* be right for high-level languages, but I've seen two *completely different* implementations of libc strlen in powerpc assembly (and wrote a third). Without all the comments, both before the start of the function and inline, I never would have figured out how each one did its job.
There will always be loser "programmers" who write code without comments, or write code without useful comments, or modify usefully-commented code without modifying the comments. Everyone I've seen who's ever put up an example of how code is self-documenting and that comments are just extra text saying the same thing have fallen into the second category. Of course things like "prints a message" or "check to see if i==0" are stupid comments. But that's just a straw man if you want to say that all comments are useless (I dare these people to read uncommented assembly of more than about 40 lines, and tell me the code documents itself).
The true useful skill lies in reading sloppy and/or wizardly code. Some people think that they have job security if they write impenetrable code, but then they can just be fired and all their code rewritten. If you can read others' "unmaintainable" code, you enable your employer to save money by not having to rewrite everything the guy they just fired wrote. So they'll want to keep you around as they fire/downsize everyone else. I It doesn't really matter what kind of code you write, since you can read whatever. advise everyone to start reading up on the Obfuscated C Contest, and practice figuring out what evertyhing does. Then you can handle any kind of code thrown at you, and the code you actually write becomes of secondary importance.
From very earlier on a compiler has been distinguished from an assembler. The compiler converts high-level language code into low-level, machine-specific assembly, and then the assembler assembles that into object code (I have a book on AI programming from the 1960s that attests to this usage).
And nobody ever uses the term "linker" to refer to either a compiler or an assembler. They use it to refer to a program that links the object code produced by the assembler to to static blocks of code that get stuck on the beginning and end of the object code to form an executable. Early computers didn't have linkers to do this; you had to put the specially-marked decks of punch-cards at the beginning and end of the object code for it to run.
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It doesn't surprise me. Currently, men are overwhelmingly the audience for video games. I think it's fair to say that male gamers are, at the very least, no better than "average" attractiveness. So having incredibly attractive male pro gamers would end up making the largest part of the demographic feel inadequate. And if these guys are attractive at the expense of their gaming ability, they'll come to be resented for their lack of talent, and pros will lose credibility among gamers.
You see how this applies also to female gamers--if female pros are sponsored based on their looks instead of their gaming ability, what's a girl to do? If she wanted to get plastic surgery to look good, she could make more money and meet richer, better looking guys by being a model, and just play games in her spare time.
I think that the way forward in pro gaming will be for more companies to sponsor more and smaller tournaments instead of players or teams, so that more people have a shot at making money and becoming pro. "Real" athletes get sponsorship from shoe and equipment companies because of the notion that good equipment is important (clubs & balls in golf, shoes in association football, gloves, mitts and bats in baseball, etc)--that the right tools can have a certain je ne sais quoi that helps you perform better. Whether that's actually the case or not, it's at least possible in those cases; however in the context of video games it's entirely questionable. Does an nVidia graphics card or an AMD CPU really help you win better than the competition? You might see companies like Dell sponsoring players on the grounds that Dell makes wicked-good gaming systems, but even that seems like a stretch. Better for Dell to hold Region Championships and hand out substantial prizes to the top dozen (or whatever) finishers. That way, the winner is always under the Dell logo.
Except they'd be shitty drivers, like the ones plague Windows installations now. Each new driver required for a Mac is a "value lost" proposition, since either 1) it will be buggy and cause system problems, making the Mac less reliable and the "Mac experience" more frustrating; or, 2) Apple will have to hire developers (plus cajole the device vendors, probably with money, for documentation) to build the drivers themselves. That gets you high-quality drivers, but the cost is much higher than using only the small subset of available equipment that is well-documented and/or well-supported.
Yes, but the English word is hospital, essential a direct copy of the French (but done before the -os- turned into -ô-); likewise, the character combinations for byôin, hôsei, and kishôgaku are pronounced much differently in modern Chinese. But just as most present-day English-speakers cannot speak French, neither can most Japanese-speakers speak Chinese (but sometimes can get the gist of a passage by looking for similar words; it's how I started learning French).
Here's the controversy: evolution permits (not requires, but *permits)* a world in which God does not exist. This is clearly bad, since it means that it's possible for someone to break the theo-fascist programming using logic. So we need to outlaw anything that might possibly keep people from circumventing the brain-washing to keep them in control.
kish?gaku). They both misappropriate words and phrases from other cultures (compare English "bourgeois" with the French meaning of bourgeois or English clothiers' jargon "petite" with French petite). The big difference is that Japanese inflects verbs a whole lot (adjectives somewhat and nouns not at all), whereas English doesn't inflect much anymore.
Japanese honestly isn't really all that hard, despite what you've been told. All that about "verbs have no future tense" or "parts of speech are frequently omitted" is very easy to adjust to. Japanese culture is sometimes hard to deal with, but I think that's just because it's another culture--people go through just as much culture shock visiting France or Sweden as they do in Japan.
All that said, it's really worth your time (and money, if you're not too tight for cash) to take college courses in the language. The opportunity to interact (and be corrected by) native speakers is priceless, and even clumsy first-year students can help your pronunciation, rhythm, comprehension, etc etc etc (in particular if you're the sort to identify mistakes made by others better than to identify your own).
It's only legally binding if you choose to redistribute it, otherwise it's irrelevant.
One of the requirements for a patent being granted is that the idea contained in the patent be reduced to practice. So clearly MS's patent application will be rejected.
Say that the computer is turned off, but plugged and ready to boot.
Say that you're dead, as most of the people who have ever lived are.
Then what's the point
There are no C interpreters. There are C compilers, but those are more often than not simply bootstrapped from a previous C compiler. In the beginnging, though, they were all assembler. As was everything else
PHP? Whose crack are you smoking? PHP is like somebody's bastard stepchild, only with a lot more buffer overflow vulernabilities. Someday, people will realize how useless (and not to mention dangerous) it is, and throw the whole thing away. If PHP is the language for the future then the future is quite fucked.
Before the product's release, Apple could always just say it was a code name they weren't planning on keeping. Hence they had to wait until the official release date to demonstrate that "Tiger" is an actual product.
For shizzle. People are always complaining about "Oh, God, this product has such an awful name, my boss would never use it. I have a million better ideas for names!" But they don't get that, it's open source, so if you want to have a Fork In Name Only, you can go right ahead and do that. Just write a script that will changes all instances of 'Subversion' (or whatever) to 'Project Management Pro Elite'. Piece of cake.
Looks like the dumbasses are out in full force today.
Wait, people get *paid* for trolling Linux here? Fuck, and I've been doing it for free this whole time...
I think the point is that we can tell when they move, even if they don't declare their new residency.
I hate cellphone towers and think they're hideously ugly, too. But, at least in this case, towers are certainly the lesser of two evils.
That's pretty much religion hating science in a nutshell.
It goes back to the idea of the Great Chain of Being, a philosophical concept developed in the Middle Ages to explain why a supremely powerful and good God could create a universe with error and sin in it. The idea is that evil is simply a *lack* of God's grace, the "privation" of God's goodness.
Here's where we get into trouble. The Great Chain of being relies on the notion that greater cannot come from lesser, and that thing like the world, people, and even ideas like infinity cannot come from things of lesser stature--the world can't come from dust, people can't come from animals, and infinity cannot be conceived of from finite numbers alone. Hence, all of these things must come from something greater than they are, and that ne plus ultra of greatness is God.
Evolution more or less rejects that claim, and consequently raises the possibility that *all* complex things evolved from simpler things. Suddenly, there's no need for a God to explain anything: if people can evolve from animals, then the world can evolve from cosmic gas and infinity can be invented/discovered through the negation of finitude. Where would God fit in now?
As much as I hate to side with phone companies, 'cos I think they're ugly, I do like to see people who bitch about "property values" get rammed in the ass even more. I think it's bullshit that people are allowed to dictate to others what they can or cannot do based on the effect it will have on their property values. It's just yet another way to infringe on personal freedoms so someone else can get richer.
How about, everytime my sister launches YIM (on Windwos) it takes over the IE toolbars and sets itself up to load automatically the computer boots? No, that couldn't be it.
There was a time when knowing someone's Social Security number couldn't cause any real trouble. Now, of course, it can be used for all kinds of mischief. You think names and IP addresses will be far behind?
Gentoo is used by just about the biggest nerds of all. Since when did it have any cool factor whatsoever?
"H2G2" expands to "Hitch-Hiker's Guide... (the) Galaxy", whereas "HHG2G" expands to "Hitch-Hiker's Guide To (the) Galaxy". Hence it is the preferred version by all right-thinking peoples.
You *might* be right for high-level languages, but I've seen two *completely different* implementations of libc strlen in powerpc assembly (and wrote a third). Without all the comments, both before the start of the function and inline, I never would have figured out how each one did its job.
The true useful skill lies in reading sloppy and/or wizardly code. Some people think that they have job security if they write impenetrable code, but then they can just be fired and all their code rewritten. If you can read others' "unmaintainable" code, you enable your employer to save money by not having to rewrite everything the guy they just fired wrote. So they'll want to keep you around as they fire/downsize everyone else. I It doesn't really matter what kind of code you write, since you can read whatever. advise everyone to start reading up on the Obfuscated C Contest, and practice figuring out what evertyhing does. Then you can handle any kind of code thrown at you, and the code you actually write becomes of secondary importance.
And nobody ever uses the term "linker" to refer to either a compiler or an assembler. They use it to refer to a program that links the object code produced by the assembler to to static blocks of code that get stuck on the beginning and end of the object code to form an executable. Early computers didn't have linkers to do this; you had to put the specially-marked decks of punch-cards at the beginning and end of the object code for it to run.