You bring as proof of a scientific statement an article that demonstrate it using an item (ansible) found in SciFi books? "An Ansible is an instantaneous communicator in Ursula LeGuin's Hainish books, the best of which are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.
I don't know if he was joking, but a coworker of mine told me that his nephew (a 14 years old girl) uses youtube (for watching music videos) and msn (to chat with friends) a lot, but doesn't know what an *email* is...
Many are worried by employees looking on the internet for employers habits (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/04/0028227&art_pos=2) and you would want to remove secret ballots?
I've read somewhere that UK financial situation is quite bad recently (similar to Iceland). Any chance they'll bankrupt and cut founds to such silly projects?
But since you use C to write more optimized code, using one byte for the terminator uses less space than using N bytes to memorize the actual string length, unless you're fine with strings with max length of 255.
Sony and EA would have the money, but they're simply too greedy and shortsighted: they want money NOW and don't understand that with MMORPG you make money on the long time, but only if you don't botch the launch.
If WoW will be dethroned, it will be by another Blizzard MMORPG. It seems that other producers cannot grasp the concepts of "deliver when ready", "appeal to the masses", "don't need a supercomputer to run" and so on... Surely other factors concurs, but AoC was targeted to mature(?) audience, WAR to PvPers. They started with a market base already reduced by their choices, and killed themselves by being uncomplete and bug ridden.
How much will you bet that Darkfall (pvp with consequences), Aion (graphic heavy), Champions Online (niche market)... will fail? If they won't have the quality that WoW has *now*, people will play them for the standard free month and then leave them for the next game.
If one assumes that playing is funny (probably not true anymore for severely addicted people), which is better, grinding for happiness or grinding for money? The answer "money can buy happiness" is not valid...:)
How does this compare to the real life in which you work for: - pay the rent of your house - buy a new car cause your neighbour has a car better than the one you have now - work more to get a pay rise - hope for a better work someday
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You bring as proof of a scientific statement an article that demonstrate it using an item (ansible) found in SciFi books?
"An Ansible is an instantaneous communicator in Ursula LeGuin's Hainish books, the best of which are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.
And what do you think the bunch of Big Brother like shows are for?
Sorry, english isn't my mother tongue...
his niece...
I don't know if he was joking, but a coworker of mine told me that his nephew (a 14 years old girl) uses youtube (for watching music videos) and msn (to chat with friends) a lot, but doesn't know what an *email* is...
Many are worried by employees looking on the internet for employers habits (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/04/0028227&art_pos=2) and you would want to remove secret ballots?
"If this exercise had been done with criminal intent it would be breaking the law."
So, if I run over a pedestrian with my car while absentminded I obviously have no criminal intent so I'm not breaking the law?
And that's why 2009 will be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
But I'm worried to see Disney ads while I'm watching p0rn!
I've read somewhere that UK financial situation is quite bad recently (similar to Iceland).
Any chance they'll bankrupt and cut founds to such silly projects?
Memory wasn't neither cheap nor abundant when C was created.
But since you use C to write more optimized code, using one byte for the terminator uses less space than using N bytes to memorize the actual string length, unless you're fine with strings with max length of 255.
"Japan is immune to Reality Distortion Field"
Why I'm still worried by a malware that, even without root privileges, runs
cd /
rm -rf *
It simply fell asleep because you're sooooo boring...
Sony and EA would have the money, but they're simply too greedy and shortsighted: they want money NOW and don't understand that with MMORPG you make money on the long time, but only if you don't botch the launch.
If WoW will be dethroned, it will be by another Blizzard MMORPG.
It seems that other producers cannot grasp the concepts of "deliver when ready", "appeal to the masses", "don't need a supercomputer to run" and so on...
Surely other factors concurs, but AoC was targeted to mature(?) audience, WAR to PvPers. They started with a market base already reduced by their choices, and killed themselves by being uncomplete and bug ridden.
How much will you bet that Darkfall (pvp with consequences), Aion (graphic heavy), Champions Online (niche market)... will fail? If they won't have the quality that WoW has *now*, people will play them for the standard free month and then leave them for the next game.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/
I know you are!
I'm so glad to be European.
If one assumes that playing is funny (probably not true anymore for severely addicted people), which is better, grinding for happiness or grinding for money? The answer "money can buy happiness" is not valid... :)
How does this compare to the real life in which you work for:
- pay the rent of your house
- buy a new car cause your neighbour has a car better than the one you have now
- work more to get a pay rise
- hope for a better work someday
US is the nation where Bush jr was elected president... twice...
"Sony to lay off 8,000 full-timers, 8,000 others"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10118970-92.html
In EQ2, ALL armor looks the same... and it's ugly!
Not for long, the next EQ Patch will be "Flying Penises of Doom"...