If he meant his "or" to imply exclusivity, he would've used "xor".
With "a lack of research, a lack of understanding, or a lack of honesty", a lack of research is sufficient to satisfy the statement as "true", and the rest is not necessary.:-P
The senses are completely bombarded with input which our brain ignores, for example the feel of your tongue on your teeth right now, or the weight of your shirt.
This is off-topic, but from what I remember, isn't autism essentially caused by the inability to tune out these sensory signals (or at least this is one symptom)?
Sure it has taste! Sci-fi is known for usually having great music, and most sci-fi takes place in space!
Just look at the "space station docking" scene from "2001"; "Blue Danube" was a powerfully apt choice for that scene! And don't even get me started on Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, and Serenity!
Well, let me clarify. What I'm saying is that beta stages are not going to see any major gameplay or style changes; it's all about the bugfixes.
Whether or not a game is horrendously buggy in beta (or even release!), it is essentially finished. If Blizzard is considering adding a new class, they'll wait for the expansion, they won't fiddle with that sort of thing in the beta.
I don't know what character you were trying to do, but if you use the correct HTML codes, you can display pretty many of the characters that get screwed up by simply cutting and pasting:
I'll readily admit that I don't know that much about Hawking's work. The extent of my knowledge of theoretical physics came from the latter half of a high school honors-level physics course.
Sometime in the next few years I plan on reading Hawking's books; I have a feeling I'll have a much greater appreciation for the man afterward.:)
A much-expanded version of what I said in my post was essentially how my physics teacher structured our class, and to this day I still think it was so cool. It's also provided me with an excellent starting point for explaining the scientific process to non-science people, and for doing things like explaining "theory does not mean unproven" -- Newton's "theory of gravity" wasn't strictly correct in the binary sense, but it was mostly there.
Well, there was one good thing about the article; it may be multi-page, but at least each page has a whole standard page's worth of writing, compared with the usual one-paragraph-per-page article that's usually linked from/.
Interesting... The Hunt for Red October was the only one you mentioned that Hans Zimmer didn't do...:-P
I've seen all of those movies, and I like Hans Zimmer's music, but I've found it's not the best to code to, for the same reason that John Williams doesn't write good coding music (ironically, considering he's at the center of nerd-dom). Zimmer's not really a "background music" kind of guy, which is why I think it was brilliant for him and James Newton Howard to collaborate on the new Batman movies, since Howard is a very subtle composer.
Maybe you can code well to Hans Zimmer's music, but I can't.;) I may buy those soundtracks regardless though, for when I'm doing work that requires less concentration. Thanks!
Beta tests now are glorified demos for the games. It used to be so much different. I really hate what's been done to them, and the only way to be a 'real' tester now is to get into the alpha's or in some rare cases early closed betas.
Backing up the first quote and pointing out what Betas have become.
IMO, the point of an open beta isn't to make client-side changes, because the developers can make all of those changes based on alpha or closed-beta testing, much earlier in the development process. By the time a product reaches beta stages, it's essentially done, and just needs a small amount of polish before release.
The real point of an open beta, especially for MMOs, is stress-testing the game servers. An open beta by definition tries to get everyone possible to play the game, so in addition to being a demo for the game, you're also trying to debug any bugs in the server system that simply can't be found by testing with just a few clients.
This was about all Blizzard was concentrating on with WoW during the open beta, and we can even see this outside the genre; when Valve had the pre-release demo of Left 4 Dead, they were testing what happens when thousands of gamers used their brand new matchmaking system. It had some issues that have been largely resolved by now, but they just couldn't test it that easily without that kind of hammering.
For me it needs to have no vocals and no complex drum parts; I'm a drummer, and I can't even listen to Dream Theater or Rush instrumental songs while coding, because I end up spending more time drumming on my desk than typing.
So I have a similar playlist -- mostly classical and techno. I mostly end up going with movie soundtracks, because they're often designed specifically to be "background" music. Techno has drums, but since it's usually electronic, it's not complex enough to be fun to play along.
Movie soundtracks I own, and use for coding: Golden Compass, Firefly, Serenity, The Dark Knight (this one is excellent for coding), Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander, Braveheart, Defiance, Hidalgo, Valkyrie, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ogniem i mieczem/With Fire and Sword (good Polish movie), Princess Bride, Band of Brothers, Gettysburg, Legend, and Merlin.
I've also found that even though I don't particularly enjoy Nine Inch Nails, it's good for coding, especially Ghosts I-IV since it's all instrumental. I plan on also buying a couple of CDs from The Art of Noise and Pendulum, since I think those will be good for coding.
Back in the days of Aristotle, we knew that gravity was a constant downward force.
Newton's calculations didn't show that to be wrong, it merely proved that it's a good approximation if you're on the Earth's surface. If you're in space, you need to use Newton's work.
Einstein didn't disprove Newton, he merely showed that his calculations are a good approximation if you're traveling at less than 10% the speed of light. Higher than that, and you need to use Einstein's equations.
Hawking showed that Einstein's equations only worked in a limited scope, just like Einstein did to Newton. In the same way, Hawking's early work has been supplanted by more recent studies, but it doesn't mean the man is dumb.
You do need another piece of software to do that, but it doesn't necessarily have to be iTunes.
I have a Rockbox'd Sansa myself, so I don't know that much about it, but I know at the very least that Winamp is also capable of putting songs on to an ipod.
I realize that the chance of a small party grabbing any meaningful power is smaller in a Constitutional Republic than a Parliamentary system, but it's still worth a shot, right?;)
Maybe we can win some local elections and gain some notoriety?
Slashdot Mirror
I hope many Bothans died to bring us this information.
From his third paragraph:
All of the planets imaged so far are relatively close, on a galactic scale. A few 10's of light years.
So, yes.
This is /.
If he meant his "or" to imply exclusivity, he would've used "xor".
With "a lack of research, a lack of understanding, or a lack of honesty", a lack of research is sufficient to satisfy the statement as "true", and the rest is not necessary. :-P
The senses are completely bombarded with input which our brain ignores, for example the feel of your tongue on your teeth right now, or the weight of your shirt.
This is off-topic, but from what I remember, isn't autism essentially caused by the inability to tune out these sensory signals (or at least this is one symptom)?
Space does not have a taste.
Sure it has taste! Sci-fi is known for usually having great music, and most sci-fi takes place in space!
Just look at the "space station docking" scene from "2001"; "Blue Danube" was a powerfully apt choice for that scene! And don't even get me started on Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, and Serenity!
Oh, a taste. Excuse me.
This instance may be a Microsoft issue, but I know Slashdot does freak out with Unicode as well, unless you use the correct reference.
â(TM) is how Slashdot displays an XML/HTML-standard "right single quotation" mark, correctly displayed as ’ by using the character reference.
Well, let me clarify. What I'm saying is that beta stages are not going to see any major gameplay or style changes; it's all about the bugfixes.
Whether or not a game is horrendously buggy in beta (or even release!), it is essentially finished. If Blizzard is considering adding a new class, they'll wait for the expansion, they won't fiddle with that sort of thing in the beta.
I don't know what character you were trying to do, but if you use the correct HTML codes, you can display pretty many of the characters that get screwed up by simply cutting and pasting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
For example, the "acute" apostrophe: -- this often gets pasted in to /. comments, and comes out as Â
The dash: — -- Comes out as â"
And so on. Left and right quotes are another big one.
I'll readily admit that I don't know that much about Hawking's work. The extent of my knowledge of theoretical physics came from the latter half of a high school honors-level physics course.
Sometime in the next few years I plan on reading Hawking's books; I have a feeling I'll have a much greater appreciation for the man afterward. :)
A much-expanded version of what I said in my post was essentially how my physics teacher structured our class, and to this day I still think it was so cool. It's also provided me with an excellent starting point for explaining the scientific process to non-science people, and for doing things like explaining "theory does not mean unproven" -- Newton's "theory of gravity" wasn't strictly correct in the binary sense, but it was mostly there.
If Rockbox adds support, then yes. :)
Well, there was one good thing about the article; it may be multi-page, but at least each page has a whole standard page's worth of writing, compared with the usual one-paragraph-per-page article that's usually linked from /.
Slashdot's software takes the non-ASCII apostrophe and freaks out, and produces "Ãf(TM)".
So he was merely trying to paste the contraction "won't".
Interesting... The Hunt for Red October was the only one you mentioned that Hans Zimmer didn't do... :-P
I've seen all of those movies, and I like Hans Zimmer's music, but I've found it's not the best to code to, for the same reason that John Williams doesn't write good coding music (ironically, considering he's at the center of nerd-dom). Zimmer's not really a "background music" kind of guy, which is why I think it was brilliant for him and James Newton Howard to collaborate on the new Batman movies, since Howard is a very subtle composer.
Maybe you can code well to Hans Zimmer's music, but I can't. ;) I may buy those soundtracks regardless though, for when I'm doing work that requires less concentration. Thanks!
Beta tests now are glorified demos for the games. It used to be so much different. I really hate what's been done to them, and the only way to be a 'real' tester now is to get into the alpha's or in some rare cases early closed betas.
Backing up the first quote and pointing out what Betas have become.
IMO, the point of an open beta isn't to make client-side changes, because the developers can make all of those changes based on alpha or closed-beta testing, much earlier in the development process. By the time a product reaches beta stages, it's essentially done, and just needs a small amount of polish before release.
The real point of an open beta, especially for MMOs, is stress-testing the game servers. An open beta by definition tries to get everyone possible to play the game, so in addition to being a demo for the game, you're also trying to debug any bugs in the server system that simply can't be found by testing with just a few clients.
This was about all Blizzard was concentrating on with WoW during the open beta, and we can even see this outside the genre; when Valve had the pre-release demo of Left 4 Dead, they were testing what happens when thousands of gamers used their brand new matchmaking system. It had some issues that have been largely resolved by now, but they just couldn't test it that easily without that kind of hammering.
For me it needs to have no vocals and no complex drum parts; I'm a drummer, and I can't even listen to Dream Theater or Rush instrumental songs while coding, because I end up spending more time drumming on my desk than typing.
So I have a similar playlist -- mostly classical and techno. I mostly end up going with movie soundtracks, because they're often designed specifically to be "background" music. Techno has drums, but since it's usually electronic, it's not complex enough to be fun to play along.
Movie soundtracks I own, and use for coding:
Golden Compass, Firefly, Serenity, The Dark Knight (this one is excellent for coding), Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander, Braveheart, Defiance, Hidalgo, Valkyrie, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ogniem i mieczem/With Fire and Sword (good Polish movie), Princess Bride, Band of Brothers, Gettysburg, Legend, and Merlin.
I've also found that even though I don't particularly enjoy Nine Inch Nails, it's good for coding, especially Ghosts I-IV since it's all instrumental. I plan on also buying a couple of CDs from The Art of Noise and Pendulum, since I think those will be good for coding.
It gives off pilot killer rays.
Maybe you couldn't afford it?
Back in the days of Aristotle, we knew that gravity was a constant downward force.
Newton's calculations didn't show that to be wrong, it merely proved that it's a good approximation if you're on the Earth's surface. If you're in space, you need to use Newton's work.
Einstein didn't disprove Newton, he merely showed that his calculations are a good approximation if you're traveling at less than 10% the speed of light. Higher than that, and you need to use Einstein's equations.
Hawking showed that Einstein's equations only worked in a limited scope, just like Einstein did to Newton. In the same way, Hawking's early work has been supplanted by more recent studies, but it doesn't mean the man is dumb.
I'd be willing to bet that we could find his real name easily here.
You do need another piece of software to do that, but it doesn't necessarily have to be iTunes.
I have a Rockbox'd Sansa myself, so I don't know that much about it, but I know at the very least that Winamp is also capable of putting songs on to an ipod.
Nothing like that for me, I just think the music is catchy!
This gets modded up, and LazyTown's "Pirate Song" gets modded down?
How is this off-topic?
It's the PIRATE SONG!
Geez, must be someone who hates LazyTown.
Anyone want to start a Pirate Party in the US?
I realize that the chance of a small party grabbing any meaningful power is smaller in a Constitutional Republic than a Parliamentary system, but it's still worth a shot, right? ;)
Maybe we can win some local elections and gain some notoriety?
For the average /. user, it's trivial. For everyone else, it's more than valid as a complaint. He sounded like he might not have known about it though.