Profit is hard to define or rather it can't be looked at in isolation. Killing CoH means NCSoft can leave the North American market, 98% of their revenue is in Korea. So they can shut down their US offices, data centers, marketing, get rid of Korean personnel with N. America knowledge, Korean managers dealing with N. America and so on. Lot's of secondary costs that can be lowered or gotten rid of totally. Just saving the time and hassle (late hours, mis-communication, flight costs, etc.) of communicating with the North American offices may be worth it. So even if CoH was profitable in isolation, once you add in all those other North America costs that get saved it may very well be a loss. Either way NCSoft clearly didn't want to deal with the hassle.
Doesn't NCSoft own Guild Wars 1 & 2 (one of which is practically brand new)? Shouldn't they still need offices in North America to support them? I'm confused about how they can manage Guild Wars in North America without offices and personnel.
That's pretty easy to fix. Just click the collapse arrow next to the apps row, and the Collapse arrow next to the Frequently Viewed row, and it will look almost identical to the old page. (However, I agree that it is kinda annoying.) This change is stored and maintained for all new tabs opened afterwards.
That's what you think. Just wait until I finalize the deal with my publisher and my first novel hits the market. It features Zack the Zombie and his star-crossed love affair with teenaged Sarah, a clumsy yet lovable girl I'm sure young women across the country will fall in love with.
What you're talking about (phonemic recognition by babies) doesn't happen until a few months after birth (I don't know the exact time, as by book on the topic is currently on loan). Until that time, they will respond equally to phonemic inventories not of their native language.
Assumed by some child language acquisition specialists, yes. Assumed by the ones who are scientific about their research, probably not.
As I understand it, we have a fair amount of information about children responding to other phonetic and phonological aspects of the language(s) spoken around them, but there hasn't been any other research on prenatal language acquisition.
Because vocal fold size determines a range of pitches available to the speaker, whereas phrase-level tone contours are language based and proportionate/relative. You can't genetically determine that any more than you can other aspects of a language's lexicon.
Much as I agree with your argument for contemporary work, I really do have to point out that there is more going on in fantasy than "Orcs, Elves, and stuff".
First, fantasy is a much larger genre then the epic, Tolkien-esque work that is most pushed by publishers. First, mythic fiction, which while not always fantasy in a sense that most people identify with, often has most if not all of the characteristics of fantasy, and is much harder than a great majority of the the current popular SF (I mean, really guys. How many Star Wars books does the world need?)
We also have lovely options for class readings in urban/contemporary/indigenous fantasy. This might even be better, in my opinion, as there are quite a lot of short stories that have a fair bit of analytical meat.
The Endicott Studio used to have some excellent reading lists for both of these subgenres.
Maybe the greater proportion of Slashdotters don't see the need for looking at this kind of fiction. However, they provide many useful insights into how to critically analyze fiction, as their references and tropes tend to be more relevant to high schoolers than monks who live to do math.
Actually, smiley faces (not emoticons, but the symbol from a Wingdings type font) do manifest in serious work. Optimality Theory, a very popular formalism used in phonology (the linguistics branch dealing with the differences between the spoken and underlying forms of words) uses these to indicate "winning" candidates, typically those actually found in the language in question. They also use bombs, flowers, and a goodly collection of other odd symbols.
For more information, I recommend Rene Kager's book,/Optimality Theory/... or some googling of you don't feel like going to your local college library.
Judges are not held accountable for their own bullshit. We just have to collectively hope they are fair, similar to dictators or kings. If they ruin lives, oh well.
What?
As I understand it, a judge's purpose is to decide whether or not an individual (corporate or otherwise) has broken a law, not to legislate from the bench. Your statement makes no sense. This judge stated that her decision was based on the *laws* put in place by the legislature. Take your bitterness to your *elected* local Congressman, not the judge who has to muck around in the horseshit they spew and figure out what to do with it.
Technically speaking, as a linguist, *both* are acceptable plurals of the word 'virus'. They both meet the broad definition of morphological variants, namely that at least some English speakers use both/virii/ and/viruses/ and nearly all speakers of the language can understand the content the speaker is attempting to convey. Furthermore, both use morphological pluralization rules found in other words in the language (for example,/cacti/ and/foxes/. From a linguistic standpoint, it doesn't really matter whether or not this would be correct in Latin, as we are discussing English.
The point I'm trying to make is that it may be the case that from a traditional lexicographical standpoint, only one is correct, most modern linguists would accept both as valid plurals, and neither as superior over the other. Remember, the sounds we make are ultimately arbitrary representations. As long as the are consistently intelligible within a community, it doesn't matter what they are.
There is a saying that goes: "one must give respect to get it."
It's perfectly fine to say that mere potential should not be given respect, but it is not merely intelligence or potential which deserves respect, but the individual himself. A teacher will get no respect from any student with any sort of mind if he treats them without the respect due to another human being. Once it becomes clear to a student with more intelligence than a tapeworm that a teacher has no interest in him, then he will promptly show no interest in return. This is not a new phenomenon due to the wild hooligans of the modern day, with their weird hair and sloppy clothes. It is because people treat others as they are treated, and if a teacher is not interested in his students, offers them no respect, he shouldn't have become a teacher, because teaching is an interpersonal vocation, and requires some level of tact.
I'm a Chesterfield native, and am familiar with these calculators, since I know kids who use them. Those particular calcs are only issued for SOLs (the local flavor of standardized test) and when a student forgets to bring his/her own. The point is to be dumbed down to four function & square roots so that you don't get to use higher functions on the Big Test, but other than that, you can use whatever you want. Since one of the goals is to make you do things like conversion on paper/in your head, that is purposefully excluded.
(The point is not to see if a Middle Schooler can add, hopefully they wouldn't have gotten this far without that particular ability.)
So, yes, even though this seems very silly (as do the tests) there is a reason why this is a problem.
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Profit is hard to define or rather it can't be looked at in isolation. Killing CoH means NCSoft can leave the North American market, 98% of their revenue is in Korea. So they can shut down their US offices, data centers, marketing, get rid of Korean personnel with N. America knowledge, Korean managers dealing with N. America and so on. Lot's of secondary costs that can be lowered or gotten rid of totally. Just saving the time and hassle (late hours, mis-communication, flight costs, etc.) of communicating with the North American offices may be worth it. So even if CoH was profitable in isolation, once you add in all those other North America costs that get saved it may very well be a loss. Either way NCSoft clearly didn't want to deal with the hassle.
Doesn't NCSoft own Guild Wars 1 & 2 (one of which is practically brand new)? Shouldn't they still need offices in North America to support them? I'm confused about how they can manage Guild Wars in North America without offices and personnel.
Whooosh?
That's pretty easy to fix. Just click the collapse arrow next to the apps row, and the Collapse arrow next to the Frequently Viewed row, and it will look almost identical to the old page. (However, I agree that it is kinda annoying.) This change is stored and maintained for all new tabs opened afterwards.
That's what you think. Just wait until I finalize the deal with my publisher and my first novel hits the market. It features Zack the Zombie and his star-crossed love affair with teenaged Sarah, a clumsy yet lovable girl I'm sure young women across the country will fall in love with.
You are correct. Stardock does not require that Impulse be running to run any game purchased through Impulse.
What you're talking about (phonemic recognition by babies) doesn't happen until a few months after birth (I don't know the exact time, as by book on the topic is currently on loan). Until that time, they will respond equally to phonemic inventories not of their native language.
Assumed by some child language acquisition specialists, yes. Assumed by the ones who are scientific about their research, probably not.
As I understand it, we have a fair amount of information about children responding to other phonetic and phonological aspects of the language(s) spoken around them, but there hasn't been any other research on prenatal language acquisition.
Because vocal fold size determines a range of pitches available to the speaker, whereas phrase-level tone contours are language based and proportionate/relative. You can't genetically determine that any more than you can other aspects of a language's lexicon.
Much as I agree with your argument for contemporary work, I really do have to point out that there is more going on in fantasy than "Orcs, Elves, and stuff".
First, fantasy is a much larger genre then the epic, Tolkien-esque work that is most pushed by publishers. First, mythic fiction, which while not always fantasy in a sense that most people identify with, often has most if not all of the characteristics of fantasy, and is much harder than a great majority of the the current popular SF (I mean, really guys. How many Star Wars books does the world need?)
We also have lovely options for class readings in urban/contemporary/indigenous fantasy. This might even be better, in my opinion, as there are quite a lot of short stories that have a fair bit of analytical meat.
The Endicott Studio used to have some excellent reading lists for both of these subgenres.
Maybe the greater proportion of Slashdotters don't see the need for looking at this kind of fiction. However, they provide many useful insights into how to critically analyze fiction, as their references and tropes tend to be more relevant to high schoolers than monks who live to do math.
Actually, smiley faces (not emoticons, but the symbol from a Wingdings type font) do manifest in serious work. Optimality Theory, a very popular formalism used in phonology (the linguistics branch dealing with the differences between the spoken and underlying forms of words) uses these to indicate "winning" candidates, typically those actually found in the language in question. They also use bombs, flowers, and a goodly collection of other odd symbols.
/Optimality Theory/... or some googling of you don't feel like going to your local college library.
For more information, I recommend Rene Kager's book,
Judges are not held accountable for their own bullshit. We just have to collectively hope they are fair, similar to dictators or kings. If they ruin lives, oh well.
What? As I understand it, a judge's purpose is to decide whether or not an individual (corporate or otherwise) has broken a law, not to legislate from the bench. Your statement makes no sense. This judge stated that her decision was based on the *laws* put in place by the legislature. Take your bitterness to your *elected* local Congressman, not the judge who has to muck around in the horseshit they spew and figure out what to do with it.
Technically speaking, as a linguist, *both* are acceptable plurals of the word 'virus'. They both meet the broad definition of morphological variants, namely that at least some English speakers use both /virii/ and /viruses/ and nearly all speakers of the language can understand the content the speaker is attempting to convey. Furthermore, both use morphological pluralization rules found in other words in the language (for example, /cacti/ and /foxes/. From a linguistic standpoint, it doesn't really matter whether or not this would be correct in Latin, as we are discussing English.
The point I'm trying to make is that it may be the case that from a traditional lexicographical standpoint, only one is correct, most modern linguists would accept both as valid plurals, and neither as superior over the other. Remember, the sounds we make are ultimately arbitrary representations. As long as the are consistently intelligible within a community, it doesn't matter what they are.
There is a saying that goes: "one must give respect to get it."
It's perfectly fine to say that mere potential should not be given respect, but it is not merely intelligence or potential which deserves respect, but the individual himself. A teacher will get no respect from any student with any sort of mind if he treats them without the respect due to another human being. Once it becomes clear to a student with more intelligence than a tapeworm that a teacher has no interest in him, then he will promptly show no interest in return. This is not a new phenomenon due to the wild hooligans of the modern day, with their weird hair and sloppy clothes. It is because people treat others as they are treated, and if a teacher is not interested in his students, offers them no respect, he shouldn't have become a teacher, because teaching is an interpersonal vocation, and requires some level of tact.
I'm a Chesterfield native, and am familiar with these calculators, since I know kids who use them. Those particular calcs are only issued for SOLs (the local flavor of standardized test) and when a student forgets to bring his/her own. The point is to be dumbed down to four function & square roots so that you don't get to use higher functions on the Big Test, but other than that, you can use whatever you want. Since one of the goals is to make you do things like conversion on paper/in your head, that is purposefully excluded. (The point is not to see if a Middle Schooler can add, hopefully they wouldn't have gotten this far without that particular ability.) So, yes, even though this seems very silly (as do the tests) there is a reason why this is a problem.