I think that Bungie has had some serious technical or personnel problems. Marathon was incredible, Myth was great. Then there was the 3-4 year lead up to the incredibly disappointing ONI. Halo has been in development at least that long.
For those that read element names like "Unonoctium" and wonder what people are smoking, there's a reason for names like that.
Years ago the soviets and the americans and any other two-bit chemist would get into fights over who found the heavier element first, and correspondingly each give their own name.
Consequently, IUPAC (busybodies that they are) set out to define the uniform naming nomenclature for heavier elements. There's a summary here:
http://www.resource-world.net/IUPACnam.htm . Which more or less says "latin for each digit in the atomic number"
What it really comes down to is there won't be any new cool element names from this point.
Simple. Hack into their systems. Publish all their stuff for everyone to see. OpenSource(tm) all their software. Then drive them out of business and buy up their assets at the liquidation. That way you win, and the Slashdot crowd holds you up as an RMS.
How dare they try to keep their databases closed. Information wants to be free!
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Offtopic? Huh? How about I mention how evil the DMCA and SSSCA are and that Micro$oft sucks! Linux roolz!
Stupid use for a $35k box I realize, but it does come with a DVD-ROM drive. Can you watch dvds with it or is that only for data-dvd purposes?
Funny, I think they only had what... two episodes this year? How can it get bad ratings when they never show it?
I think that Bungie has had some serious technical or personnel problems. Marathon was incredible, Myth was great. Then there was the 3-4 year lead up to the incredibly disappointing ONI. Halo has been in development at least that long.
"I am now altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further"
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Sure they "could" have used a kite, but they "could" have used Linux to raise the obelisk too.
Years ago the soviets and the americans and any other two-bit chemist would get into fights over who found the heavier element first, and correspondingly each give their own name.
Consequently, IUPAC (busybodies that they are) set out to define the uniform naming nomenclature for heavier elements. There's a summary here: http://www.resource-world.net/IUPACnam.htm . Which more or less says "latin for each digit in the atomic number"
What it really comes down to is there won't be any new cool element names from this point.
How dare they try to keep their databases closed. Information wants to be free!