Nope - They going for nhc98 at last check. I should know - I was given it to do as an 4th year engineering project (Computer Systems Engineering), last year.
However due to lack of funding, the university didn't have any Win2k installs, so I was told to aim to have a Haskell to Java converter.
It proved to be impossibly large for a 4th year project, but I got a working framework, and a skeletal converter (i.e. it compiles simple single file programs).
I'm still waiting on the marking of it (supervisor problems). However nhc98 claims to be open source, which I believe would mean that my one would also have to be so as well. If I can get the university to put what I've done up on a web page I'll do so, and notify those at nhc98 so they can do what they want with it.
I have no idea what M$ are doing with it now (if anything at all) - as they went through my supervisor, and I was only interested in getting it done as a project.
The Maori aren't a primitive culture. They had carbine rifles before the english, they used trench warfare before anyone else did.
At the battle of Ohaiwai (probably not spelled correctly), they wiped out a 3rd of the British Army in less than 5 minutes!
The English wrote that they had won - because they had the Pa (Fort). The Maori had retreated into the bush and were fighting using Guerrilla warfare, something the British didn't understand yet.
They lost the later land battles because they were losing numbers due to disease (brought in by the Europeans), and the fact that the English could just bring more people in to replace those they lost.
Nowdays as a people we use more technology (per head) than just about any other race. We have more internet usage (again per head) than most other races.
Wrong. The Maori are of polynesian descent not african (ok - so we may be somewhere way back).
My skin barely looks like I'm a tanned Pakeha (thats european to non-Maori speakers).
If you want to know what most Maori look like (as a generalisation) go to http://www.culture.co.nz/portraits/
Point of fact: at 300,000, there are more Maori now than there were before the European Devils arrived.
However non of us are true Maori any more. We all have European blood in our ancestory somewhere.
As it was the Maori blood stock had been decreased so low, that the only method of survival was to interbreed with the Europeans.
Its took over 100 years to build the Maori numbers back up past the point they had been at the arrival of the europeans.
AFAICS Lego are not stealing or commodifying anyone's identity, they are just using a couple of Maori/Polynesian words (nothing specific to the Maori language at all) in a ficitional game
They aren't just using a couple of words, what the major complaint is about the fact that they are using some of our legends as a basis for their game.
While I have no problem with them using the story (which could almost be from any culture), its the combination of the story and the use of the words that is offending. It makes it a little too copied, infringing on our identity.
That said my tribe isn't one of the ones complaining (yes, IAANZ of the Ngapui nation/tribe).
In these countries when no party has a clear majority, days or even weeks pass before a viable coalition can be formed and in the meantime they have no government.
Incorrect statement. Until a new government has been formed - the old one continues to rule, preventing the country from falling into a situation where there is no government.
You can be social at the same time while coding at 4 in the morning. E.g. assignment/project due - find a lab, or stay at work and gather other geeks who are doing the same thing.
It actually works out better this way at uni - because when the security guards come around at 1am and you are by yourself, they will attempt to throw you out on suspicion. Get an entire lab full, and they ignore you.
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However due to lack of funding, the university didn't have any Win2k installs, so I was told to aim to have a Haskell to Java converter.
It proved to be impossibly large for a 4th year project, but I got a working framework, and a skeletal converter (i.e. it compiles simple single file programs).
I'm still waiting on the marking of it (supervisor problems). However nhc98 claims to be open source, which I believe would mean that my one would also have to be so as well. If I can get the university to put what I've done up on a web page I'll do so, and notify those at nhc98 so they can do what they want with it.
I have no idea what M$ are doing with it now (if anything at all) - as they went through my supervisor, and I was only interested in getting it done as a project.
. . . and I don't respect primitive cultures.
The Maori aren't a primitive culture. They had carbine rifles before the english, they used trench warfare before anyone else did.
At the battle of Ohaiwai (probably not spelled correctly), they wiped out a 3rd of the British Army in less than 5 minutes!
The English wrote that they had won - because they had the Pa (Fort). The Maori had retreated into the bush and were fighting using Guerrilla warfare, something the British didn't understand yet.
They lost the later land battles because they were losing numbers due to disease (brought in by the Europeans), and the fact that the English could just bring more people in to replace those they lost.
Nowdays as a people we use more technology (per head) than just about any other race. We have more internet usage (again per head) than most other races.
The Maori are degenerate and disgusting niggers.
Wrong. The Maori are of polynesian descent not african (ok - so we may be somewhere way back).
My skin barely looks like I'm a tanned Pakeha (thats european to non-Maori speakers).
If you want to know what most Maori look like (as a generalisation) go to http://www.culture.co.nz/portraits/
Point of fact: at 300,000, there are more Maori now than there were before the European Devils arrived.
However non of us are true Maori any more. We all have European blood in our ancestory somewhere.
As it was the Maori blood stock had been decreased so low, that the only method of survival was to interbreed with the Europeans.
Its took over 100 years to build the Maori numbers back up past the point they had been at the arrival of the europeans.
AFAICS Lego are not stealing or commodifying anyone's identity, they are just using a couple of Maori/Polynesian words (nothing specific to the Maori language at all) in a ficitional game
They aren't just using a couple of words, what the major complaint is about the fact that they are using some of our legends as a basis for their game.
While I have no problem with them using the story (which could almost be from any culture), its the combination of the story and the use of the words that is offending. It makes it a little too copied, infringing on our identity.
That said my tribe isn't one of the ones complaining (yes, IAANZ of the Ngapui nation/tribe).
In these countries when no party has a clear majority, days or even weeks pass before a viable coalition can be formed and in the meantime they have no government.
Incorrect statement. Until a new government has been formed - the old one continues to rule, preventing the country from falling into a situation where there is no government.
You can be social at the same time while coding at 4 in the morning.
E.g. assignment/project due - find a lab, or stay at work and gather other geeks who are doing the same thing.
It actually works out better this way at uni - because when the security guards come around at 1am and you are by yourself, they will attempt to throw you out on suspicion. Get an entire lab full, and they ignore you.
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