They probably spent $100 million alone on those laughable "Dark Side" M&M displays we all saw in the grocery store where Darth Vader is standing next to two cartoon pieces of candy.
50% on a test does not mean 50% understanding of the material. This would assume that every test is written to perfectly reflect the material in the course. That is an absurd assumption. The fact that the article's author thinks this way explains a lot about his difficulty as an engineering major.
I read in an interview somewhere (maybe here at slashdot) from a guy from id software (who are strong supporters of Linux gaming) that knowing that a game will be ported to multiple platforms from the beginning of development forces them to produce cleaner code which ultimately results in less bugs on every platform. I wish more game developers had this kind of attitude, that developing for cross platform is a challenge that can improve the development progress, rather than seeing it as a sink in terms of cost benefit.
As far as the money question goes, these guys are raking it in. Do the math: 1 million subscribers in the US alone at $15 a month for a year is $180 million dollars in yearly revenue. I'm leaving out the initial $50 investment and all non-US revenue. And just wait till the first pay add-on appears. We are not talking some garage game design studio here, this is a seriously flush corporation. They can afford to support any platform they need to, they just choose not to when it comes to Linux.
It's a perfectly legitimate question to ask. We have GPS and spy satellites but are still by any objective account losing in Iraq to an enemy that has no presence in space.
Hey, I'm as big an FPS junkie as the next person, but I still think it's kind of interesting that in every picture of this thing there's guy with a firearm in his hand. Good fodder for sociologists.
Scientific papers often include a great deal of data and analysis. Some of this data can be somewhat inaccurate, much of the analysis can also easily be incorrect. How far off does something have to be before it is "wrong"? How much of a paper has to be "wrong" for the paper itself to be declared "wrong"? I think a better way to look at it is that in most papers, there is some wrong and some right.
Murray and Herrnstein describe Lynn as "a leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences." Here's a sample of Lynn's thinking on such differences: "What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the 'phasing out' of such peoples.... Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent. To think otherwise is mere sentimentality." (cited in Newsday, 11/9/94)
Elsewhere Lynn makes clear which "incompetent cultures" need "phasing out": "Who can doubt that the Caucasoids and the Mongoloids are the only two races that have made any significant contributions to civilization?" (cited in New Republic, 10/31/94)
This guy would be a cartoonish sci-fi villain if he wasn't real.
Yet another article from a financial news source that assumes rising wages are automatically bad. Isn't an increase in the standard of living the point to economic progress? Isn't that the excuse whenever business gets their tax breaks and tarrifs and corporate welfare, that there will be more and better jobs? They describe rising wages in the tech sector in Ireland in the 90's like it was a natural disaster.
Recently I was sitting in a theater next to some young girl who had a fluorescent mini-lightsaber who kept pulling it out and waving it around. Her mom was sitting next to her and made a few half-hearted attempts to get her to put it away. I almost took it out of her hands and stabbed her in the eye with it but then the voices in my head subsided.
If you are saying that you can't use the on-board nforce network adapter on your motherboard in Linux, that is no longer true. I have it up and running in Mandrake 10.1.
The Earth's magnetic field will help protect against any charged particles (including photons, electrons, plasma particles, etc.) because magnetic fields exert a force that points in a direction perpendicular to both the path of the particle and to direction of the magnetic field. This causes charged particles to be confined to a helical path around magnetic field lines, which prevents many of them from penetrating the field and striking the earth. (These particles accumulate at the poles and are responsible for the Aurorae Borealis.) Neutral particles, such as neutrons, pass through unaffected, but can be slowed down by collisions with other particles, such as in the Earth's atmosphere.
I believe even in low-earth orbit you are protected by the magnetic field, but you lack the shielding of the atmosphere, and rely solely on the walls and windows of the spacecraft for protection.
I'd be way more worried about the damage done to his tissues by energetic cosmic particles that didn't get decelerated by that pesky atmosphere we have. He is certainly at a much higher risk of cancer than your average terrestrial human.
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The real question is: is it easily scratched?
They probably spent $100 million alone on those laughable "Dark Side" M&M displays we all saw in the grocery store where Darth Vader is standing next to two cartoon pieces of candy.
50% on a test does not mean 50% understanding of the material. This would assume that every test is written to perfectly reflect the material in the course. That is an absurd assumption. The fact that the article's author thinks this way explains a lot about his difficulty as an engineering major.
I read in an interview somewhere (maybe here at slashdot) from a guy from id software (who are strong supporters of Linux gaming) that knowing that a game will be ported to multiple platforms from the beginning of development forces them to produce cleaner code which ultimately results in less bugs on every platform. I wish more game developers had this kind of attitude, that developing for cross platform is a challenge that can improve the development progress, rather than seeing it as a sink in terms of cost benefit. As far as the money question goes, these guys are raking it in. Do the math: 1 million subscribers in the US alone at $15 a month for a year is $180 million dollars in yearly revenue. I'm leaving out the initial $50 investment and all non-US revenue. And just wait till the first pay add-on appears. We are not talking some garage game design studio here, this is a seriously flush corporation. They can afford to support any platform they need to, they just choose not to when it comes to Linux.
I also wonder why this is modded troll.
It's a perfectly legitimate question to ask. We have GPS and spy satellites but are still by any objective account losing in Iraq to an enemy that has no presence in space.
Hey, I'm as big an FPS junkie as the next person, but I still think it's kind of interesting that in every picture of this thing there's guy with a firearm in his hand. Good fodder for sociologists.
Hey spelling fascist, go "such" eggs! ;)
I agree. This article, while interesting, was riddled with spelling errors. Enough to make reading it a chore.
Scientific papers often include a great deal of data and analysis. Some of this data can be somewhat inaccurate, much of the analysis can also easily be incorrect. How far off does something have to be before it is "wrong"? How much of a paper has to be "wrong" for the paper itself to be declared "wrong"? I think a better way to look at it is that in most papers, there is some wrong and some right.
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This guy would be a cartoonish sci-fi villain if he wasn't real.
Yet another article from a financial news source that assumes rising wages are automatically bad. Isn't an increase in the standard of living the point to economic progress? Isn't that the excuse whenever business gets their tax breaks and tarrifs and corporate welfare, that there will be more and better jobs? They describe rising wages in the tech sector in Ireland in the 90's like it was a natural disaster.
Recently I was sitting in a theater next to some young girl who had a fluorescent mini-lightsaber who kept pulling it out and waving it around. Her mom was sitting next to her and made a few half-hearted attempts to get her to put it away. I almost took it out of her hands and stabbed her in the eye with it but then the voices in my head subsided.
If you are saying that you can't use the on-board nforce network adapter on your motherboard in Linux, that is no longer true. I have it up and running in Mandrake 10.1.
I made a mistake in that post, where it says "photons" it should say "protons", i.e. ionized Hydrogen.
The Earth's magnetic field will help protect against any charged particles (including photons, electrons, plasma particles, etc.) because magnetic fields exert a force that points in a direction perpendicular to both the path of the particle and to direction of the magnetic field. This causes charged particles to be confined to a helical path around magnetic field lines, which prevents many of them from penetrating the field and striking the earth. (These particles accumulate at the poles and are responsible for the Aurorae Borealis.) Neutral particles, such as neutrons, pass through unaffected, but can be slowed down by collisions with other particles, such as in the Earth's atmosphere. I believe even in low-earth orbit you are protected by the magnetic field, but you lack the shielding of the atmosphere, and rely solely on the walls and windows of the spacecraft for protection.
I'd be way more worried about the damage done to his tissues by energetic cosmic particles that didn't get decelerated by that pesky atmosphere we have. He is certainly at a much higher risk of cancer than your average terrestrial human.