It's not bullshit. If you ate nothing but salad every day, you're not going to get the same nutrition that you would from eating a lot of meats.
The vegetarian/vegan forums are all full of people who go on a fad vegan diet and end up not feeling well or having other issues because they did not adjust their diet properly.
While most people eat terribly, meat is a very easy source of calories and protein. To get the same from veggies you need to pick out the right stuff. A lot of people don't understand that.
It can be very hard to get vitamin B12 from a strictly vegan diet. You pretty much need supplements to get the vitamin B12 you need when you don't eat meat or at least eggs and dairy. Of course most people are deficient in other necessary vitamins also, so it seems to be a typical problem with our modern diets. The fear of the sun hasn't helped either as vitamin D deficiency is rampant and a likely cause of many major diseases.
Vitamin B12, also called cobalamin, is a vitamin that is necessary for body functions, according to Dr. James Balch and Phyllis Balch, authors of "Prescription for Nutritional Healing." This vitamin is found in meats, eggs, milk and cheeses, but does not occur naturally in plant-based foods. Strict vegetarians who do not consume vitamin B12 fortified foods or take B12 supplements may be at risk for vitamin B12 deficiency.
I've always wondered why we use cows to generate milk. Given that most of milk is relatively simple (water, sugars, chalk, oil), why can't we have bioreactor into which we put grass-clippings, and get out something roughly similar to milk?
The need for adding protein, and some kinds of vitamins might be moderately tricky, but I should think that this wouldn't matter for many applications. The only thing that would require the full complexity of real milk would be in making (good quality) cheese. This would also appeal to vegans, some vegetarians, and many people with lactose intolerance.
An interesting thing about lactose intolerance with milk is that it is mostly brought on by pasteurization. Drinking raw milk will be just fine for most people. You would need an extreme lactose intolerance for raw milk to give you any issues. There are enzymes in raw milk like lactoperoxidase that help with the digestion of the lactose. The other thing I found interesting when I started drinking raw milk, was there are things added to processed and pasteurized milk that are not in any ingredients list. The pasteurization kills off the bacteria and destroys some of the cells in the milk. These dead cells would settle to the bottom of the milk container and form a grey sludge. Since this would be very unappetizing, they add chemicals that keep these dead cells suspended in the liquid. I've never been one to drink a lot of milk, I don't really like it. But the thought of a bunch of dead crap floating around with some unknown chemicals makes it even more gross. Another benefit from the raw milk is I can skim the cream off the top and use it in my coffee. Now that is tasty!
Beef rose to ascendancy in the American diet based on free range grazing. This was an activity that required ZERO agriculture. People are fixated on this idea of replacing Beef with Tofu and don't acknowledge the fact that it still takes a considerable amount of effort to get good soybean yields.
Grain fed beef and feedlots are a very recent phenomenon.
Less beef might not be such a big problem. The environmental impact will likely be lower than either feedlots or giant soybean farms.
The tree huggers ignore that soybean farmings isn't free either and it's sustainability is also disputable. It's disputable for the same reasons. A lot of energy goes into generating high crop yields.
The problem with soy is that the human body can't digest it properly unless it is fermented. It is quite unhealthy to eat the soy that we have today since none of it is fermented like it should be. I would assume that places in China still make tofu in the traditional method where it is fermented, but in the U.S. it is all processed and unfermented so it is unhealthy.
And this fails to work if there is no rubber sheet being stretched by the excess air being forced into it's containing volume. If you place the air molecules into a metal box instead, letting them out gives you no work at all. I think it is the stretching of the rubber that contains the potential energy, not knowing where the air is.
No secret. I just made a game that I wanted to play.
I had a game on my previous phone, a Palm Treo, that I played often. It is similar to the free and open source Einstein. When I couldn't find a similar game on Android I decided to make it myself. By the time I finished the book on learning Android from the library, I had the game done. It helped that the main example in the book was a Sudoku game and mine is also a grid based logic game. Change the numbers to pictures and add a horizontal scroll view and first pass at it was done. Check it out, Einstein's Logic. I find that many of the comments from people show that they are as hooked on it as I was. It is a niche game though as not everyone likes logic puzzles. Plus, there is a bit of a learning curve to understand the clues. I could use some sort of tutorial mode to help people learn to play.
Recently I did find my game out on some Android piracy site. Rather than cry about it, I figure I should be proud that my game is played enough to have made it into the piracy world. It's not like the pirates would have bought it anyway. I have payed for apps that were free with a donate version in the market and I have pirated apps that I did not think were worth paying for. Assassin's Creed to name one - crappy company policies and no fun on an Android device anyway. So glad I didn't buy that one.
I don't think it will even come to the 4th box. When our money is deemed worthless because they have been printing so much of it that it is a common as dirt, then the country collapses and we all live like Mad Max. No revolution is needed. It will all unravel due to it's own accord. Plus, don't forget, the U.S. is currently the record holder for longest democracy. They typically don't last all that long before collapsing.
What's always amazed me about all of this is the idea (and I've heard some really bad app developers tell me this) that all you have to do is put your product in an app store, be it iTunes, Android, or anywhere, and just sit back and collect the money. On what planet do these people come from?
I don't know about that. I put an app on the Android market and then I am just sitting back and collecting the money. After I make a couple more games I would be surprised if I don't make even more money. It's not enough to quit my day job yet, but it's a start. And the game has only been out there a year and I have done no advertising at all. The reviews average out to 5 out 5 stars, so quality and addictiveness helps.
... the kewl blue LEDs on the front of everything.
Note to self: Investigate modulating the LED intensity via a s/w trojan planted on laptops as a means of mind control and the first step to acheiving world domination.
My point was that a company can't just claim that the license is no longer BSD and is now some proprietary thing preventing existing users from using the original BSD codebase. If a company makes a proprietary fork, the OSS users can just ignore the fork.
Which works fine if the OSS version is still competitive. If the proprietary fork beats the snot out of the OSS version due to patented additions, then the market may shift and all the clueless users out there will move over to the fork. Your right in that the OSS version is still there and still open. With most projects it may not matter much if the OSS project lost some market share. But if it had some sort of network effect in place like Myspace/Facebook, then losing a large part of the market could kill the project. I think it comes down to fear of the competition really. See my previous post on that here.
I am coming to the understanding that your take on the BSD vs GPL depends on your feelings of competition in market. If you feel that you can create better software than Apple or Microsoft, even if they steal every bit of code you write, add onto it and make it proprietary, then BSD works great for you. If you feel that Microsoft might take your code you wrote and close it and add patented algorithms that make it better than you will ever be able to match, then BSD will hurt you.
I can imagine a Skype clone that is open source and turns out to work better than Skype. If BSD were used, then MS could take the parts that make it better and incorporate that into Skype. Since they have the name and now they can match the open source's performance, there is no reason people would use the open source version (besides being MS, that's enough reason).
I do find it a little annoying that your whole project would need to be GPL if you use one program that is GPL. It seems like you should be able to just keep the open source stuff open, while using it's output in other programs that aren't GPL. I guess that is what LGPL is about then. In the end, I think it is good that there are different licences to use. If you find something that is GPL that you can't use, then it is no different from that software being proprietary and closed. So stop complaining about it. It gives more freedom than proprietary does.
And with BSD they could have done the same thing but they wouldn't have even needed to share the source anymore! So I don't see how GPL is more restrictive than BSD.
I guess Megane is one of the majority of people who conveniently forgot about building 7 falling for what seems like no reason.
In the end I don't think we have to worry about the 'terrorists' flying planes into buildings. No commercial plane I have ever seen has pods attached to the bottom and shoot flame out the front right before impact with the buildings. There are too many inconsistencies with the 'official' story for that to be the truth.
human fingerprints, faces and eyes and even sweat glands and buttock pressure.
A fellow programmer and I used to joke about developing a bunghole scanner for identification. Not so funny now, is it?
That's nothing! When I first looked at the above quote I read it as "human fingerprints, feces and eyes". Now that would be an interesting bio metric scanner.
I agree that is does no good to push it onto other people. But supporting their addiction is no help either. So I don't help people with their Windows problems. And because I have been using Linux for a while now I can (almost) truthfully say that I don't know how to fix their Windows computer when something goes wrong (I could do some Googling).
I installed Ubuntu (before Unity) on my mother-in-law's computer after some typical Windows problems. I actually set it up for dual boot, but I don't think she has ever booted into Windows. She is perfectly happy with the solitaire games on Ubuntu so there is no need for Windows anymore.
Tyranny of the smart minority sounds better than tyranny of the fearful and stupid majority. Those who give up liberty for the sake of safety end up with neither one!
Now ask them how many ads they click on in the free apps on their Android phones. Those ads get in the way of the game and get clicked on much more frequently.
Yeah, look what a disaster that Y2K thing turned out to be.
I don't know where you were during Y2K, but I saw the disaster first hand. The bar I was at in LA lost all the power just after midnight and we were in pitch black darkness. When the lights came back on none of the cash registers booted up again and the bar tenders had to sell drinks manually with a pile of bills on the back wall near the bottles. Y2K did cause some problems and I'm sure it would have been worse if lots of people didn't put in lots of time to fix things before hand.
I find that interesting because as I hinted to, I've experienced the same thing from a male's perspective, from my own family. I experience gender bias all the time from people who proudly label themselves "feminists." They make generalizations about men, they side with my wife every time the two of us have a dispute and we seek support from family, they speak for me as if they know what I'm going to do and the false assumptions they make are based on the fact that I have a penis. Women think they know what I'm thinking and what my intentions are just because I'm a man. So I know exactly how it feels and I do experience it, only I experience it from the same people who complaining about it most vocally.
That's what I was alluding to when I said "... I don't see it. In fact, I see the trend going in the opposite direction." and "the complete double-standard backwardness that has been instituted in the name of 'feminism.'"
My wife and I were talking about this issue just the other day. She was remarking on how many of the active or vocal feminists are more anti-male than really out for equality. Pretty much any feminist blog will be very anti-male. I must admit I don't read many feminist blogs, so I could be completely wrong on this assertion. I do remember one though that was very hateful to men. And like you mentioned, they assume all men are like their imagined evil oppressor.
I think all the groups pushing to change things experience this. At the beginning they wanted voting rights and equality in pay and treatment. As they get some of those things they don't disband. The make new goal posts and demands. MADD just keeps asking for lower blood alcohol levels until having a breath mint can get you arrested. If you never decide things are good enough, then you just keep pushing until you have ridiculous actions. Feminists wanting all men destroyed and PETA thinking all domesticated pets would be better off killed than living with loving homes.
I remember the first time the soldiers in front of me were laying down suppressing fire as two more were rapidly making a wide pincer move to get to my flank. I was crying the tears of joy! After all the useless, pointless bots that only knew how to run towards you and died in the hundreds, I finally had a game where developers actually focused on AI. Fear had good AI as well unfortunately you couldn't get the full appreciation of it because all the environments were so closed in that there wasn't much area to show off manuverability. Hell, the reason Half Life 1 was so damn awesome was because of the AI of the grunts.
And then... The focus on AI died as if it was a brief fad. FPS returned to being fancy graphical demos with gameplay equivalent of Quake 2. Worse: Quick Time Events just became extremely common!
I just can't comprehend why. Is it because the focus now is on casual gamers and they compain about the extra difficulty of the AI? Surely you can just add dificulty levels that adjusts damage and health of enemies instead of removing all the intelligence altogether!
It really makes no sense to me. Once you do some work getting some smart AI that flanks, you just re-use the code in the next game. It isn't going to be a ton on work unless you wanted to improve it. But they didn't even do that, they just drop it and give us dumb enemies.
I remember when it was laughed at for even being called "The start menu"
Perhaps it's like "New Coke"! Make something soo bad that people scream and clamor to get the old one back. And then when you give it to them they are hooked!
Excel for Windows is the only reason I even keep a Windows machine around. Excel for Mac is a steaming pile of crap, and Calc can't hold a candle to either. It just falls flat on its face if you ask it to do any data manipulation over several thousands rows or any reasonably complex calculations. I kept giving Calc a chance but gave up after too many crashes/lock-ups with modest spreadsheets (5-10Meg). Yes, it's fine for your "need to make a table quickly" or "process this simple form data" or as crappy project management tool, but anything else, forget it, especially when it comes to database connectivity and pivottables.
And I quit using Excel after having it corrupt the documents so they would no longer open and I had to use Open Office to fix them. Plus, Excel can't search through multiple sheets for a number, you have to switch to each sheet and do a new search. Why would such a bloated tool be missing such fundamental features? Besides, if you are using over several thousands of rows I would say you are using the wrong tool for the job.
In the one-party states, only one party to the conversation needs to be informed that the call is being recorded. In these states you could record any conversation you wanted. In the other, two-party states, both parties to the conversation need to be informed that the call is being recorded. My question is this: if they announce to you that the call is being recorded, then both parties are already informed that the call is being recorded so there is no need for you to inform them of your own recording. Now I must state that IANAL and this is just my thoughts on how to twist the situation to suit my own needs.
What jobs will we go to collage for to earn the big money? Society has to be prepared for the day that human thinking loses significant value in place of machine thinking. If society is not ready for the major changes brought forward by massive technological change things can go very badly.
When that time comes, we will all be fighting the machines! Haven't you seen the movie sent back from the future by John Connor?
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It's not bullshit. If you ate nothing but salad every day, you're not going to get the same nutrition that you would from eating a lot of meats.
The vegetarian/vegan forums are all full of people who go on a fad vegan diet and end up not feeling well or having other issues because they did not adjust their diet properly.
While most people eat terribly, meat is a very easy source of calories and protein. To get the same from veggies you need to pick out the right stuff. A lot of people don't understand that.
It can be very hard to get vitamin B12 from a strictly vegan diet. You pretty much need supplements to get the vitamin B12 you need when you don't eat meat or at least eggs and dairy. Of course most people are deficient in other necessary vitamins also, so it seems to be a typical problem with our modern diets. The fear of the sun hasn't helped either as vitamin D deficiency is rampant and a likely cause of many major diseases.
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Vitamin B12, also called cobalamin, is a vitamin that is necessary for body functions, according to Dr. James Balch and Phyllis Balch, authors of "Prescription for Nutritional Healing." This vitamin is found in meats, eggs, milk and cheeses, but does not occur naturally in plant-based foods. Strict vegetarians who do not consume vitamin B12 fortified foods or take B12 supplements may be at risk for vitamin B12 deficiency.
I've always wondered why we use cows to generate milk. Given that most of milk is relatively simple (water, sugars, chalk, oil), why can't we have bioreactor into which we put grass-clippings, and get out something roughly similar to milk?
The need for adding protein, and some kinds of vitamins might be moderately tricky, but I should think that this wouldn't matter for many applications. The only thing that would require the full complexity of real milk would be in making (good quality) cheese. This would also appeal to vegans, some vegetarians, and many people with lactose intolerance.
An interesting thing about lactose intolerance with milk is that it is mostly brought on by pasteurization. Drinking raw milk will be just fine for most people. You would need an extreme lactose intolerance for raw milk to give you any issues. There are enzymes in raw milk like lactoperoxidase that help with the digestion of the lactose. The other thing I found interesting when I started drinking raw milk, was there are things added to processed and pasteurized milk that are not in any ingredients list. The pasteurization kills off the bacteria and destroys some of the cells in the milk. These dead cells would settle to the bottom of the milk container and form a grey sludge. Since this would be very unappetizing, they add chemicals that keep these dead cells suspended in the liquid. I've never been one to drink a lot of milk, I don't really like it. But the thought of a bunch of dead crap floating around with some unknown chemicals makes it even more gross. Another benefit from the raw milk is I can skim the cream off the top and use it in my coffee. Now that is tasty!
Beef rose to ascendancy in the American diet based on free range grazing. This was an activity that required ZERO agriculture. People are fixated on this idea of replacing Beef with Tofu and don't acknowledge the fact that it still takes a considerable amount of effort to get good soybean yields.
Grain fed beef and feedlots are a very recent phenomenon.
Less beef might not be such a big problem. The environmental impact will likely be lower than either feedlots or giant soybean farms.
The tree huggers ignore that soybean farmings isn't free either and it's sustainability is also disputable. It's disputable for the same reasons. A lot of energy goes into generating high crop yields.
The problem with soy is that the human body can't digest it properly unless it is fermented. It is quite unhealthy to eat the soy that we have today since none of it is fermented like it should be. I would assume that places in China still make tofu in the traditional method where it is fermented, but in the U.S. it is all processed and unfermented so it is unhealthy.
And this fails to work if there is no rubber sheet being stretched by the excess air being forced into it's containing volume. If you place the air molecules into a metal box instead, letting them out gives you no work at all. I think it is the stretching of the rubber that contains the potential energy, not knowing where the air is.
No secret. I just made a game that I wanted to play.
I had a game on my previous phone, a Palm Treo, that I played often. It is similar to the free and open source Einstein. When I couldn't find a similar game on Android I decided to make it myself. By the time I finished the book on learning Android from the library, I had the game done. It helped that the main example in the book was a Sudoku game and mine is also a grid based logic game. Change the numbers to pictures and add a horizontal scroll view and first pass at it was done. Check it out, Einstein's Logic. I find that many of the comments from people show that they are as hooked on it as I was. It is a niche game though as not everyone likes logic puzzles. Plus, there is a bit of a learning curve to understand the clues. I could use some sort of tutorial mode to help people learn to play.
Recently I did find my game out on some Android piracy site. Rather than cry about it, I figure I should be proud that my game is played enough to have made it into the piracy world. It's not like the pirates would have bought it anyway. I have payed for apps that were free with a donate version in the market and I have pirated apps that I did not think were worth paying for. Assassin's Creed to name one - crappy company policies and no fun on an Android device anyway. So glad I didn't buy that one.
I don't think it will even come to the 4th box. When our money is deemed worthless because they have been printing so much of it that it is a common as dirt, then the country collapses and we all live like Mad Max. No revolution is needed. It will all unravel due to it's own accord. Plus, don't forget, the U.S. is currently the record holder for longest democracy. They typically don't last all that long before collapsing.
What's always amazed me about all of this is the idea (and I've heard some really bad app developers tell me this) that all you have to do is put your product in an app store, be it iTunes, Android, or anywhere, and just sit back and collect the money. On what planet do these people come from?
I don't know about that. I put an app on the Android market and then I am just sitting back and collecting the money. After I make a couple more games I would be surprised if I don't make even more money. It's not enough to quit my day job yet, but it's a start. And the game has only been out there a year and I have done no advertising at all. The reviews average out to 5 out 5 stars, so quality and addictiveness helps.
Note to self: Investigate modulating the LED intensity via a s/w trojan planted on laptops as a means of mind control and the first step to acheiving world domination.
Bwaaaah haaaa haaaa!
Gee Brain, then what are we going to do tomorrow?
And I watched the newest hit blockbuster movie the other day! It is called Ass and it is 2 and a half hours of asses filling the screen.
My point was that a company can't just claim that the license is no longer BSD and is now some proprietary thing preventing existing users from using the original BSD codebase. If a company makes a proprietary fork, the OSS users can just ignore the fork.
Which works fine if the OSS version is still competitive. If the proprietary fork beats the snot out of the OSS version due to patented additions, then the market may shift and all the clueless users out there will move over to the fork. Your right in that the OSS version is still there and still open. With most projects it may not matter much if the OSS project lost some market share. But if it had some sort of network effect in place like Myspace/Facebook, then losing a large part of the market could kill the project. I think it comes down to fear of the competition really. See my previous post on that here.
I am coming to the understanding that your take on the BSD vs GPL depends on your feelings of competition in market. If you feel that you can create better software than Apple or Microsoft, even if they steal every bit of code you write, add onto it and make it proprietary, then BSD works great for you. If you feel that Microsoft might take your code you wrote and close it and add patented algorithms that make it better than you will ever be able to match, then BSD will hurt you.
I can imagine a Skype clone that is open source and turns out to work better than Skype. If BSD were used, then MS could take the parts that make it better and incorporate that into Skype. Since they have the name and now they can match the open source's performance, there is no reason people would use the open source version (besides being MS, that's enough reason).
I do find it a little annoying that your whole project would need to be GPL if you use one program that is GPL. It seems like you should be able to just keep the open source stuff open, while using it's output in other programs that aren't GPL. I guess that is what LGPL is about then. In the end, I think it is good that there are different licences to use. If you find something that is GPL that you can't use, then it is no different from that software being proprietary and closed. So stop complaining about it. It gives more freedom than proprietary does.
And with BSD they could have done the same thing but they wouldn't have even needed to share the source anymore! So I don't see how GPL is more restrictive than BSD.
I guess Megane is one of the majority of people who conveniently forgot about building 7 falling for what seems like no reason.
In the end I don't think we have to worry about the 'terrorists' flying planes into buildings. No commercial plane I have ever seen has pods attached to the bottom and shoot flame out the front right before impact with the buildings. There are too many inconsistencies with the 'official' story for that to be the truth.
human fingerprints, faces and eyes and even sweat glands and buttock pressure.
A fellow programmer and I used to joke about developing a bunghole scanner for identification. Not so funny now, is it?
That's nothing! When I first looked at the above quote I read it as "human fingerprints, feces and eyes". Now that would be an interesting bio metric scanner.
I agree that is does no good to push it onto other people. But supporting their addiction is no help either. So I don't help people with their Windows problems. And because I have been using Linux for a while now I can (almost) truthfully say that I don't know how to fix their Windows computer when something goes wrong (I could do some Googling).
I installed Ubuntu (before Unity) on my mother-in-law's computer after some typical Windows problems. I actually set it up for dual boot, but I don't think she has ever booted into Windows. She is perfectly happy with the solitaire games on Ubuntu so there is no need for Windows anymore.
Which constitutes only 1.37% of the population...
Beware the tyranny of the minority.
Tyranny of the smart minority sounds better than tyranny of the fearful and stupid majority. Those who give up liberty for the sake of safety end up with neither one!
Now ask them how many ads they click on in the free apps on their Android phones. Those ads get in the way of the game and get clicked on much more frequently.
Yeah, look what a disaster that Y2K thing turned out to be.
I don't know where you were during Y2K, but I saw the disaster first hand. The bar I was at in LA lost all the power just after midnight and we were in pitch black darkness. When the lights came back on none of the cash registers booted up again and the bar tenders had to sell drinks manually with a pile of bills on the back wall near the bottles. Y2K did cause some problems and I'm sure it would have been worse if lots of people didn't put in lots of time to fix things before hand.
I find that interesting because as I hinted to, I've experienced the same thing from a male's perspective, from my own family. I experience gender bias all the time from people who proudly label themselves "feminists." They make generalizations about men, they side with my wife every time the two of us have a dispute and we seek support from family, they speak for me as if they know what I'm going to do and the false assumptions they make are based on the fact that I have a penis. Women think they know what I'm thinking and what my intentions are just because I'm a man. So I know exactly how it feels and I do experience it, only I experience it from the same people who complaining about it most vocally.
That's what I was alluding to when I said "... I don't see it. In fact, I see the trend going in the opposite direction." and "the complete double-standard backwardness that has been instituted in the name of 'feminism.'"
My wife and I were talking about this issue just the other day. She was remarking on how many of the active or vocal feminists are more anti-male than really out for equality. Pretty much any feminist blog will be very anti-male. I must admit I don't read many feminist blogs, so I could be completely wrong on this assertion. I do remember one though that was very hateful to men. And like you mentioned, they assume all men are like their imagined evil oppressor.
I think all the groups pushing to change things experience this. At the beginning they wanted voting rights and equality in pay and treatment. As they get some of those things they don't disband. The make new goal posts and demands. MADD just keeps asking for lower blood alcohol levels until having a breath mint can get you arrested. If you never decide things are good enough, then you just keep pushing until you have ridiculous actions. Feminists wanting all men destroyed and PETA thinking all domesticated pets would be better off killed than living with loving homes.
Far Cry I with AI that would flank
This!
I remember the first time the soldiers in front of me were laying down suppressing fire as two more were rapidly making a wide pincer move to get to my flank. I was crying the tears of joy! After all the useless, pointless bots that only knew how to run towards you and died in the hundreds, I finally had a game where developers actually focused on AI. Fear had good AI as well unfortunately you couldn't get the full appreciation of it because all the environments were so closed in that there wasn't much area to show off manuverability. Hell, the reason Half Life 1 was so damn awesome was because of the AI of the grunts.
And then... The focus on AI died as if it was a brief fad. FPS returned to being fancy graphical demos with gameplay equivalent of Quake 2. Worse: Quick Time Events just became extremely common!
I just can't comprehend why. Is it because the focus now is on casual gamers and they compain about the extra difficulty of the AI? Surely you can just add dificulty levels that adjusts damage and health of enemies instead of removing all the intelligence altogether!
It really makes no sense to me. Once you do some work getting some smart AI that flanks, you just re-use the code in the next game. It isn't going to be a ton on work unless you wanted to improve it. But they didn't even do that, they just drop it and give us dumb enemies.
Suddenly we all love the start menu?
I remember when it was laughed at for even being called "The start menu"
Perhaps it's like "New Coke"! Make something soo bad that people scream and clamor to get the old one back. And then when you give it to them they are hooked!
Excel for Windows is the only reason I even keep a Windows machine around. Excel for Mac is a steaming pile of crap, and Calc can't hold a candle to either. It just falls flat on its face if you ask it to do any data manipulation over several thousands rows or any reasonably complex calculations. I kept giving Calc a chance but gave up after too many crashes/lock-ups with modest spreadsheets (5-10Meg). Yes, it's fine for your "need to make a table quickly" or "process this simple form data" or as crappy project management tool, but anything else, forget it, especially when it comes to database connectivity and pivottables.
And I quit using Excel after having it corrupt the documents so they would no longer open and I had to use Open Office to fix them. Plus, Excel can't search through multiple sheets for a number, you have to switch to each sheet and do a new search. Why would such a bloated tool be missing such fundamental features? Besides, if you are using over several thousands of rows I would say you are using the wrong tool for the job.
In the one-party states, only one party to the conversation needs to be informed that the call is being recorded. In these states you could record any conversation you wanted. In the other, two-party states, both parties to the conversation need to be informed that the call is being recorded. My question is this: if they announce to you that the call is being recorded, then both parties are already informed that the call is being recorded so there is no need for you to inform them of your own recording. Now I must state that IANAL and this is just my thoughts on how to twist the situation to suit my own needs.
What jobs will we go to collage for to earn the big money? Society has to be prepared for the day that human thinking loses significant value in place of machine thinking. If society is not ready for the major changes brought forward by massive technological change things can go very badly.
When that time comes, we will all be fighting the machines! Haven't you seen the movie sent back from the future by John Connor?