It's a shame the term 'Trojan' is already taken. Then again, perhaps this is best described in those terms. trojanware != a trojan I'd call it trojanware.
Next in the mega plan was to be "totally open and honest with the publisher." Working with SCEE, Healey and Evans said that they made the decision early on to treat the relationship like a partnership. "We're 10 people, they're 10 trillion," so during early visits, Media Molecule told Sony "absolutely everything."
"We didn't want to have a them-and-us attitude," said Healey, adding, "that way if it goes wrong we can blame them."
Healey, too, said that the company would go through quite painful arguments, ridiculous in that after two days of "arguing about some silly little thing," they would realize they were talking about the same thing anyway, but with different words. Here, too, the two stressed that visual concepts and communication were key.
It sounds like they were successfully applying XP on the client side, but the quality of internal team communication dropped significantly as soon as the team grew in size. Their method of approaching development is also interesting: jump in, boots and all. This should be in a textbook.
\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} One can measure the resonance of any object by dividing propagation speed by the object length. It's called the fundamental frequency. \begin{align} \text{Frequency} &= k * \frac{\text{speed}}{\text{length}} \\ \text{where,} k &= 1/2 \text{\ or\ } 1/4\text{, depending on the material.} \intertext{Thus we can measure the frequency of the crust's natural resonance by dividing speed by wavelength.} \text{Frequency} &= \frac{\text{Propogation speed of aftershocks through crust}}{\text{length of crust in direction of travel}} \\ &= \text{recipe to turn Earth into Quake 3 Arena.} \end{align} \end{document} \bye
But the Everywhere Girl is permanently banned from Wikipedia. The article used to be several paragraphs long.
Really? Then it should show up in a deletion log somewhere. As far as I can tell that article was only deleted once.
To me this sounds like an internet meme or pop-culture article; if so then it sounds like it relied on primary sources and was thus Original Research. My advice is that you should wait until Wikipedia:Attribution gets accepted as a guideline; now for an important caveat: although it should be a bit more understanding than what we have at the moment, this should not be seen as an open-slather green light to so-called pop-culture articles where primary sources are the only available sources—reliable are still preferred if available. In this case however, I have never heard of Everywhere Girl outside of the source you provided, nor have I read the original article you are talking about, so you might want to take this advice with a pinch of salt.
Last I heard (on October 20th), Sony announced that they may not make their PS3 Shipment targets of 2 Million units Worldwide by January 2007 (which in itself had been a reduction of the 4 Million worldwide for January 2007 that they claimed at E3).
If there is roughly 10^4.9 seconds per day, and around 10^1.8 days between now and then, that's 10^6.7 seconds between now and then, or roughly 5 million seconds. I don't know how quick it takes to make one of those things, but to meet that amount of orders in such a short time might be impossible when you take testing into it. They need to build and test about one per second, and exactly how long will it take for the PS3 to boot up again?
I think I know why they might be having problems: there's too much demand.
Global warming has nothing to do with the environment and absolutely nothing to do with science. It is a movement to punish people for engaging in free will and capitalism. It is just Soviet marxism wrapped in a pretty green banner.
Ummm.... no it isn't, but thanks for the argument ad hominem.
There is a perception that free will is a god given right when it is actually a responsibility. To illustrate, I suppose by the argument you used that we would be better off if murderers and rapists weren't locked up because it infringes on their free choice? No, of course not. The principle is that they chose to go down that path, and they have to pay the consequences: you reap what you sow.
In this case, if someone spends the extra money to get a large vehicle that barely meets any emission standards and has woeful mileage, then I suppose they have enough money to afford the extra tax that society imposes on them for polluting the air.
Asked about the environment, Hawking, who suffers from a degenerative disease, uses a wheelchair and speaks through a computerized voice synthesizer, said he was "very worried about global warming."
He said he was afraid that Earth "might end up like Venus, at 250 degrees centigrade and raining sulfuric acid."
In any case, I think he's referring to an underlying geometric progression in climate models.
In fact, reliance on CSS with its absolute font, size and color specifications breaks compatibility with different screen resolutions, browsers, mobile devices and accessibility features.
That only happens if you write CSS that is prone to breaking, such as using absolute font sizes, or relying on colors for navigation. I should be able to hit View->Page Style->No Style in my browser and still understand the page... if I can't, that's bad web design.
It might surprise you that Wikipedia does not define *any* absolute font sizes, and yet its article headings are always larger than the text in the sidebar. Check out monobook's main.css to see how they do it.
As for colors, a good motto is to stick to short colors (e.g. "background-color: #eef" is a nice heading background and an alias to the longer #eeeefff") or named colors. If you really really want that color to always show, another alternative is to wrap elements like this: <span style="background-color: blue"><span style="background-color: #eef">**STUFF**</span></span>. If your PDA's 6-bit LCD screen doesn't display hex color styles, at least some of it will show up.
However, as a general rule one shouldn't be purely relying on colors or CSS style to provide navigation hints anyway. A navigation aid is all that CSS should provide, but it is no substitute for well emitted (X)HTML.
A shear line is an area in a low pressure trough, usually in the tropics, within which wind direction changes significantly over a relatively short distance. The area is marked by an increase in cumuluform clouds, often including towering cumulus, and rainshowers. It may become more active with thunderstorms, and the turbulence and circular motion of winds may assist in the formation of a tropical storm. A shear line is depicted as a line of red dots and dashes.
KDE has a tendency to fill every users system with crap that nobody uses. And E or GNOME doesn't?
You, my dear sir, are an idiot. Not everyone shares the same interests, and it is practically impossible to find anyone who uses every single piece of software provided by a desktop environment.
What would nice however if this new technology used unix-style seperation of tasks, so that every window manager could use it, i.e. programs with commandlines like x_video_stream video.mpeg --window 12385 --default-x-server --size 320,240 --deinterlace, and stream_from_network_to_pipe nfsfile pipetouse.
This, more than anything else, would make more people use them because their usage can be CUSTOMIZED. Hiding stuff in an API is a mistake.
"How do I read from stdin?" "How do I allocate without too much overhead for it?" "Wait, I really shouldn't be doing this in the main function. Perhaps I'll make a separate function." Easy.
char* getaline(FILE* fp) {
char buf[80];
char* out;
int len = 0;
if (feof(fp)) { return NULL; }
out = (char*)malloc(80);
if (!out) { return NULL; }
*out = 0;
while (fscanf(fp, "%79[^\n]", buf) == 1) {
strcat(out, buf);
len += strlen(buf);
if ((out = (char*)realloc(out, len+80)) == NULL) { return NULL; }
}
fscanf(fp, "%*c");
return out; }
"Now, hmm.. How do I define a function which takes a reference to an array of char pointers, and what else do I need to know to reallocate the array" "Oh right. It also needs to be separated by spaces too, not just newlines" "I wish there was a nice library function 'char *readfile(stream)' in ANSI C" Almost, but you're approaching it the wrong way. You get your reader function to do all the allocating.
char** readfile(FILE* stream) {
char** text;
char* tmp;
int line = 0;
text = (char**)malloc(sizeof(char*));
while(1) {
if ((text[lines] = getaline(stream)) == NULL) {
if (!lines) { free(text); return(NULL); }
return text;
}
line++;
if ((text = realloc(text, (line+1)*sizeof(char*)) == NULL) { return NULL; }
} }
Psh, it's my opinion that Sega is doing this for the money and for the money alone. That's called business, and it is also called "making money", "turning a profit", or "staying in the black". You can't complain about that.
Either Sony or Microsoft would have been smart to approach them; then they'd really have something to compete Nintendo with nostalgia-wise (Xbox's curent arcade not really doing it). Actually, prior history suggests that Sega approached them: * Sonic Mega Collection * Sonic Mega Collection Plus * Sonic Gems Collection all of these are games that come with emulated games.
There was also Sega Superstars, based on many previous Sega titles, but it hasn't stopped there. The latest Sonic title is actually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(2 006_game)>this one, (to be on PS3, 360, and maybe Revolution,) although I haven't heard of any possibilities about any emulated games packaged with it.
Mine Apple ][+ had 12k ROM, and 48k RAM. (Other 4k: C100-CFFF for cards, C000-C0FF for keyboard and flip flops.) Sound familiar?
Used to have loads of fun playing Broderbund LodeRunner on it, 1 bit interlaced graphics and all. I've still got several copies of the 5 1/2" disk it came on. It'd still work on a modern emulator if I had a way of reading them.
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No one has enough mod points. Seriously, lower the bar to entry or introduce disqus-like +1 moderation
I'd call it trojanware.
No biggie. I think most of us can tell what word was meant to be in here.
Oh please. Lay off the Zonk bashing. Read the summary and note that it was not written by Zonk.
Don't like the stories? Then take a drink from the FireHose and mod up the contributions that interest you.
A real hacker would've cracked open the server the day before and gotten the answers before entering the competition.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
One can measure the resonance of any object by dividing propagation speed by the object length. It's called the fundamental frequency.
\begin{align}
\text{Frequency} &= k * \frac{\text{speed}}{\text{length}} \\
\text{where,} k &= 1/2 \text{\ or\ } 1/4\text{, depending on the material.}
\intertext{Thus we can measure the frequency of the crust's natural resonance by dividing speed by wavelength.}
\text{Frequency} &= \frac{\text{Propogation speed of aftershocks through crust}}{\text{length of crust in direction of travel}} \\
&= \text{recipe to turn Earth into Quake 3 Arena.}
\end{align}
\end{document}
\bye
This is otherwise known as MPEG-4
Hopefully this will mean that movie codecs will be part of a respectable Linux distribution instead of getting relegated to 'extras'?
Ask an avionics engineer.
Really? Then it should show up in a deletion log somewhere. As far as I can tell that article was only deleted once.
To me this sounds like an internet meme or pop-culture article; if so then it sounds like it relied on primary sources and was thus Original Research. My advice is that you should wait until Wikipedia:Attribution gets accepted as a guideline; now for an important caveat: although it should be a bit more understanding than what we have at the moment, this should not be seen as an open-slather green light to so-called pop-culture articles where primary sources are the only available sources—reliable are still preferred if available. In this case however, I have never heard of Everywhere Girl outside of the source you provided, nor have I read the original article you are talking about, so you might want to take this advice with a pinch of salt.
Cheers,
DavidHOzAu
First, why would we want to restore a one-word article?
Second, it's quicker to start the article yourself than to request undeletion, buddy.
Third, that's an interesting question! When you feel something needs clarity, please feel free to look it up on a variety of sources before asking about whatever questions you feel need to be answered. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit any article by simply following the Edit this page link. You don't even need to log in! (Although there are some reasons why you might like to...)
Fourth, sources you might want to look up first include but are not limited to:
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If there is roughly 10^4.9 seconds per day, and around 10^1.8 days between now and then, that's 10^6.7 seconds between now and then, or roughly 5 million seconds. I don't know how quick it takes to make one of those things, but to meet that amount of orders in such a short time might be impossible when you take testing into it. They need to build and test about one per second, and exactly how long will it take for the PS3 to boot up again?
I think I know why they might be having problems: there's too much demand.
There is a perception that free will is a god given right when it is actually a responsibility. To illustrate, I suppose by the argument you used that we would be better off if murderers and rapists weren't locked up because it infringes on their free choice? No, of course not. The principle is that they chose to go down that path, and they have to pay the consequences: you reap what you sow.
In this case, if someone spends the extra money to get a large vehicle that barely meets any emission standards and has woeful mileage, then I suppose they have enough money to afford the extra tax that society imposes on them for polluting the air.
"Stephen Hawking: Earth Could Become Like Venus"
In any case, I think he's referring to an underlying geometric progression in climate models.
The other thing that I forgot to mention is that an em will scale, but a pixel will not.
It might surprise you that Wikipedia does not define *any* absolute font sizes, and yet its article headings are always larger than the text in the sidebar. Check out monobook's main.css to see how they do it.
As for colors, a good motto is to stick to short colors (e.g. "background-color: #eef" is a nice heading background and an alias to the longer #eeeefff") or named colors. If you really really want that color to always show, another alternative is to wrap elements like this: <span style="background-color: blue"><span style="background-color: #eef">**STUFF**</span></span>. If your PDA's 6-bit LCD screen doesn't display hex color styles, at least some of it will show up.
However, as a general rule one shouldn't be purely relying on colors or CSS style to provide navigation hints anyway. A navigation aid is all that CSS should provide, but it is no substitute for well emitted (X)HTML.
...and I think it is now safe to say that you can read more about him here.
In hindsight, I'd say this story came up seconds after I clicked on the submit page and started typing.
A shear line is an area in a low pressure trough, usually in the tropics, within which wind direction changes significantly over a relatively short distance. The area is marked by an increase in cumuluform clouds, often including towering cumulus, and rainshowers. It may become more active with thunderstorms, and the turbulence and circular motion of winds may assist in the formation of a tropical storm. A shear line is depicted as a line of red dots and dashes.
KDE has a tendency to fill every users system with crap that nobody uses.
And E or GNOME doesn't?
You, my dear sir, are an idiot. Not everyone shares the same interests, and it is practically impossible to find anyone who uses every single piece of software provided by a desktop environment.
What would nice however if this new technology used unix-style seperation of tasks, so that every window manager could use it, i.e. programs with commandlines like x_video_stream video.mpeg --window 12385 --default-x-server --size 320,240 --deinterlace, and stream_from_network_to_pipe nfsfile pipetouse.
This, more than anything else, would make more people use them because their usage can be CUSTOMIZED. Hiding stuff in an API is a mistake.
"How do I allocate without too much overhead for it?"
"Wait, I really shouldn't be doing this in the main function. Perhaps I'll make a separate function."
Easy.
"Now, hmm.. How do I define a function which takes a reference to an array of char pointers, and what else do I need to know to reallocate the array"
"Oh right. It also needs to be separated by spaces too, not just newlines"
"I wish there was a nice library function 'char *readfile(stream)' in ANSI C"
Almost, but you're approaching it the wrong way. You get your reader function to do all the allocating.
Have fun!
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Psh, it's my opinion that Sega is doing this for the money and for the money alone.
2 006_game)>this one, (to be on PS3, 360, and maybe Revolution,) although I haven't heard of any possibilities about any emulated games packaged with it.
That's called business, and it is also called "making money", "turning a profit", or "staying in the black". You can't complain about that.
Either Sony or Microsoft would have been smart to approach them; then they'd really have something to compete Nintendo with nostalgia-wise (Xbox's curent arcade not really doing it).
Actually, prior history suggests that Sega approached them:
* Sonic Mega Collection
* Sonic Mega Collection Plus
* Sonic Gems Collection
all of these are games that come with emulated games.
Also, Sonic Adventure DX had emulated games as unlockables.
There was also Sega Superstars, based on many previous Sega titles, but it hasn't stopped there. The latest Sonic title is actually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(
Sounds like an Apple ][.
Mine Apple ][+ had 12k ROM, and 48k RAM. (Other 4k: C100-CFFF for cards, C000-C0FF for keyboard and flip flops.) Sound familiar?
Used to have loads of fun playing Broderbund LodeRunner on it, 1 bit interlaced graphics and all. I've still got several copies of the 5 1/2" disk it came on. It'd still work on a modern emulator if I had a way of reading them.