One foot long vegie delight sub on age retarding bread with swiss cheese, all the salad, no sauce and no salt or pepper. No drinks or cookies either thanks, I'm just here to live longer and lose some weight.
There are only four tones in Mandarin. Flat, up, down and an up/down one. Learning the tone associated with a word is no different than learning a pronunciation of a word that might be spelled the same as another word in English. Such as 1. 'read' as in 'He read a book.' and 2. 'read' as in 'Hopefully I will read what happened later on.' And as for the writing system, I ditto what CRCulver said, plus add, you can learn what the meanings of the characters are and read it in English. It isn't hard, just a lot of memorising. I used to hang out with Chinese friends in Sydney (Australia) and surprise them when occasionally I could tell them what something said. They were quite chuffed that I knew some of the charters. (Caveat - I'm not fluent by any means of the imagination, and have forgotten a lot of them, as I left Sydney over 10 years ago).
Everywhere I've worked (as a sys admin or network engineer) we've always voiced our concerns and it is always the 'adversarial' problem. Management has a problem with the 'security through obscurity' thing, where they think no one outside the company knows the companies network exists. You can talk till you're blue in the face, but they won't listen. They even make statements about the firewalls just wasting the companies money. Last place I worked they insisted that 'password' was a good enough password for people to have, and removed a rule that didn't allow it. The main people who pushed it were the IT manager and the infrastructure team leader (who was an MS Server Admin - you'd think they'd know better). There were some other stupid decisions I won't go into, but whenever a new manager comes in and starts to pull apart/destroy the security of the network, it is always a good time to leave.
Wait, isn't the predicted sea level rise a total of almost 3m over the next 100 years? I'm not familiar with San Francisco, except what I've seen on TV and movies (lots of Hills with a huge bridge and trolley cars). But, are all those offices really located only 3m or less above sea level? If not, then they have over 100 years to relocate their offices. I doubt they would have been in the same offices anyway as they would have expanded or contracted as a business over that 100 years. Even if they are only 1m - 3m above sea level, they still have time to move. They could also look at turning San Fran into the Venice of California if it is really going to be struggling with the water.
The reason it is a great game (and its successor not quite as good in my opinion) is the execution. It is well put together, fun to play, well tested, well balanced, has good visuals and music, it is stable, and so on and so forth.
Actually, I met the lead anthropologist for Microsoft at a conference many years ago. She said they have about 7 anthropologist who work at MS, and their job is to make the product work for people. ie good user interfaces etc for the average person off the street. She was brought on board at MS when Windows 95 came out, and she told a story about how she brought in some average people off the street to test loading Win 95 from scratch, and not one of them could get it to load. The engineers/developers asked where she got all the stupid people from, and she pointed out that they weren't stupid, they just weren't technical as they weren't IT.
Knowing that she and many other anthropologists are working for MS to get their interfaces working for humans makes me wonder if they've accidentally picked up too much tech knowledge, if they're just failing to do their jobs, if they get pushed aside in favour of release dates, or just get ignored by the tech people. Food for thought.
They can pull the millions they have in the pipeline for marketing and limit its release (ie ship it to less cinemas - ie they don't need to make as many prints of it if it is not digital - even stopping it being shown anywhere) and can shove it straight into DVD release to try to maximise its returns. Just pulling the millions that would have been spent on marketing around the world could save them. Apparently (from what I've previously read) about one third of a movies production cost is the marketing. So instead of a $120 million flop, they'd only have an $80 million flop on their hands. If the returns were only going to be $10 million and then instead get $5 million and keep their $40 million marketing budget, they still come out slightly better off.
I can think of a number of good things that can come from this:
If it becomes safe enough you can do away with things like seat belts and air bags. You could even have the seats face in any direction you like, so that you can all sit around a table in the middle of the vehicle playing games, having a party with drinks etc. You could have the windows blacked out so that no one can see in. You could put a bed in the car. You could turn the inside of the car into a small mobile office. The possibilities are almost endless.
Can't help but think that the NSA is tracking everyone who downloads or mirrors wikileak files in order to do a massive round up one night when everyone least expects it and the files (where ever they are found) disappear forever with everyone who ever copied it.
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All people who post to this thread are under arrest for thought crime. Please report for reNeducation. Excuse me. Knock at the door ...
Spain are really advanced in this area compared to the rest of the world. Way, way ahead of us in unemployment.
Hope they give preferences to politicians ... in fact, can we convince the Mars program to send them all?
'Helium doesn't burn/explode ... '
My uneducated friend hasn't heard of the sun! That things full of helium, and look at it burning and exploding all the time! :-)
One foot long vegie delight sub on age retarding bread with swiss cheese, all the salad, no sauce and no salt or pepper. No drinks or cookies either thanks, I'm just here to live longer and lose some weight.
It uses the same physics that Baron Von Munchausen used to lift himself out of the quicksand by his hair, by pulling upwards on it.
Who forget to fill it with politicians?????
There are only four tones in Mandarin. Flat, up, down and an up/down one. Learning the tone associated with a word is no different than learning a pronunciation of a word that might be spelled the same as another word in English. Such as 1. 'read' as in 'He read a book.' and 2. 'read' as in 'Hopefully I will read what happened later on.' And as for the writing system, I ditto what CRCulver said, plus add, you can learn what the meanings of the characters are and read it in English. It isn't hard, just a lot of memorising. I used to hang out with Chinese friends in Sydney (Australia) and surprise them when occasionally I could tell them what something said. They were quite chuffed that I knew some of the charters. (Caveat - I'm not fluent by any means of the imagination, and have forgotten a lot of them, as I left Sydney over 10 years ago).
Everywhere I've worked (as a sys admin or network engineer) we've always voiced our concerns and it is always the 'adversarial' problem. Management has a problem with the 'security through obscurity' thing, where they think no one outside the company knows the companies network exists. You can talk till you're blue in the face, but they won't listen. They even make statements about the firewalls just wasting the companies money. Last place I worked they insisted that 'password' was a good enough password for people to have, and removed a rule that didn't allow it. The main people who pushed it were the IT manager and the infrastructure team leader (who was an MS Server Admin - you'd think they'd know better). There were some other stupid decisions I won't go into, but whenever a new manager comes in and starts to pull apart/destroy the security of the network, it is always a good time to leave.
We asked her, but she's not telling us.
It has a new hat!!!!
So it does what the mail service does in World of Warcraft. Deletes it after a time, even if unread.
You can win more OIL.
Stand still, LADEE! Yes, yoo, LADEE! How can ya have any pudding if ya don' eat ya meat?
Wait, isn't the predicted sea level rise a total of almost 3m over the next 100 years? I'm not familiar with San Francisco, except what I've seen on TV and movies (lots of Hills with a huge bridge and trolley cars). But, are all those offices really located only 3m or less above sea level? If not, then they have over 100 years to relocate their offices. I doubt they would have been in the same offices anyway as they would have expanded or contracted as a business over that 100 years. Even if they are only 1m - 3m above sea level, they still have time to move. They could also look at turning San Fran into the Venice of California if it is really going to be struggling with the water.
The reason it is a great game (and its successor not quite as good in my opinion) is the execution. It is well put together, fun to play, well tested, well balanced, has good visuals and music, it is stable, and so on and so forth.
And has Leonard Nimoy!!!! :-)
Not only Lame, but I tried it on my Mac and it doesn't work. Command-Z did however.
You under estimate her! She had plenty of nano seconds stored up just in case!
It's called strip poker. :-)
Actually, I met the lead anthropologist for Microsoft at a conference many years ago. She said they have about 7 anthropologist who work at MS, and their job is to make the product work for people. ie good user interfaces etc for the average person off the street. She was brought on board at MS when Windows 95 came out, and she told a story about how she brought in some average people off the street to test loading Win 95 from scratch, and not one of them could get it to load. The engineers/developers asked where she got all the stupid people from, and she pointed out that they weren't stupid, they just weren't technical as they weren't IT.
Knowing that she and many other anthropologists are working for MS to get their interfaces working for humans makes me wonder if they've accidentally picked up too much tech knowledge, if they're just failing to do their jobs, if they get pushed aside in favour of release dates, or just get ignored by the tech people. Food for thought.
They can pull the millions they have in the pipeline for marketing and limit its release (ie ship it to less cinemas - ie they don't need to make as many prints of it if it is not digital - even stopping it being shown anywhere) and can shove it straight into DVD release to try to maximise its returns. Just pulling the millions that would have been spent on marketing around the world could save them. Apparently (from what I've previously read) about one third of a movies production cost is the marketing. So instead of a $120 million flop, they'd only have an $80 million flop on their hands. If the returns were only going to be $10 million and then instead get $5 million and keep their $40 million marketing budget, they still come out slightly better off.
I can think of a number of good things that can come from this:
If it becomes safe enough you can do away with things like seat belts and air bags. You could even have the seats face in any direction you like, so that you can all sit around a table in the middle of the vehicle playing games, having a party with drinks etc. You could have the windows blacked out so that no one can see in. You could put a bed in the car. You could turn the inside of the car into a small mobile office. The possibilities are almost endless.
In other news, it can also be used as a gun ... er ...
Those 1930 people were just ripping off the Amtrak Wars series of books!!!! How unoriginal!!!
Can't help but think that the NSA is tracking everyone who downloads or mirrors wikileak files in order to do a massive round up one night when everyone least expects it and the files (where ever they are found) disappear forever with everyone who ever copied it.