Do these garbage collectors die from things that are their own fault, or from the fault of the engineers and ground-crew? That makes a big difference in the statistics.
Also, I doubt garbage collector deaths are due from someone saying 'ah, it's safe enough' and letting it be. Their equipment is as safe as it could be made. Why expect any different for an astronaut?
At first I thought you mean the Indie Game Devs had started their own **AA. That's what this article is, you know... All the Indies getting together and bitching.
If XBLA published every Indie game that applied for it, there would be a flood of really, really crappy games and you could barely find the good ones. If MS is artificially limiting the number of games, it's because it wants to keep the offerings in the 'good-to-great' range and not offer junk just to make some quick cash.
Try this: Name 3 Indie games that was turned away from XBLA that was or would have been successes. If they are being turned away in droves, naming 3 of them should not be that hard.
Copyright isn't to stop amateur photographers from taking pictures. It's to stop crooks from selling someone else's pictures. In fact, it has nothing at all to do with the actual taking of the pictures. It's the end product that is covered.
While I think Copyright is way too strong, and should be something that ends within the author's lifetime, and not a century afterward, I think dropping it altogether is too far to the extreme, too.
Bingo. This has absolutely nothing to do with the 'online forum' and everything to do with inappropriate conduct in the workplace. If these people didn't read it on the 'online forum', they'd have read it elsewhere instead and the same thing would have happened.
I think it's important to note that in your analogy, the alternative to giving back the money for the stolen car is to just take the car and not give you the money. That could actually happen.
In this case, could that happen as well? Yes, I think it could.
Yeah, as I stated on my other post, I got sick of finding out that games were complete crap after spending $60 on them. (Actually, I think it was $50 at the time.) So I rent now.
But my comment above still stands... During those months, I couldn't even find any games worth -renting- and I was still paying the rental fees (GameFly) whether I rented games or not.
Newsflash: Games have matured. When video games were new, everything was innovative. As hardware evolved, and controls changed, things were innovative. There were a few ideas that made new genres... But most games these days can't be innovative because it's all be done before.
The Wii was supposed to be 'innovative', but ended up lackluster. Natal... I'm betting on more of the same.
And it's not that there aren't 'innovative' games... Every new innovative game in the 'casual' game industry creates a flood of new games. And Trash Panic (aka Gomibako) is pretty innovative. And Pain. And... Yeah, they're out there.
I did, about 3-4 years ago now. After I bought 2 $60 pieces of crap in a row, I decided enough was enough. Now I spend $15-$35 a month on rentals (depending on how many good games are out there that I want to play) and probably save $30-200 a month on games. If it's really, really good I might buy it immediately. If it's just good, I might buy it later when I see it really cheap. All the rest just go back.
So yeah, the game industry really shot themselves in the foot. Too many crap games, especially ones that look great in the previews and ads, means I almost never pre-order a game. (I've preordered a few since then, and a couple were crap... Reinforced my rental decision, I can tell you.)
Tricking your child into going to a 'hospital' where they tie the child down and shock them for 30 minutes at a time... There's no way that doesn't leave mental scars.
"Some Chinese medical experts still believe shock treatment for Internet addiction does not harm children, but the majority disavow it, said Tao Ran, the founder of a Beijing treatment center Web-addicted teens, during a recent interview."
Sure, as long as you're only worried about their physical health, I'm sure it doesn't... Too bad it scars them for life mentally.
So... All of them, huh? Seriously, this isn't really a top 10 or comparison, it just lists a bunch of them. I'd be a -lot- more interested in open source ones that anyone can use without paying tons of money.
Except that this looks just like image data... Because it is! There's no 'appended' file. It's converted into image data, then reconverted at the end user. It will be a lot harder to detect this.
My cat just has an annoying meow sound she makes when she wants attention. It's not cute or nice, it just grates on the nerves. She was very late in learning to meow when she wants things, so I think that has a lot to do with it. (I had another cat that took care of her and did all the asking, so she never had to. After he died, she had to learn to take care of herself and she was already like 5 years old.)
There's no doubt she learns, though... But sometimes she 'learns' things that are wrong. For instance, for some reason she thinks that I'll fill up the water bowl more often if she drops food in it. She's wrong, but she's done it for years now. There's always exactly 1 piece, no matter how far from the food bowl it is.
You have to define 'news' pretty carefully to make this claim true.
If you only look at stories that were on Mainstream Media, then their numbers are probably pretty close.
If you look at news reported by bloggers, MSM doesn't even report the vast majority of it. 'New KDE Release' has -never- been on MSM, yet it's 'news' to me and I value the information.
You don't graduate a college/uni with 'expertise'. You graduate with knowledge. Expertise is learned by actually working in the field. The closest you might come is if you find a school that requires you to apprentice for 2 years before you can graduate, like a medical doctor/nurse/etc has to. I doubt you'll find one.
Stop thinking you need to learn a language and start thinking you need to learn to program. A good programmer can pick up any language as needed. A great programmer can start programming on day 1 with just a reference book and no prior knowledge of the language.
How the hell did speculation about the -name- of a possible future WoW expansion make the front page? I like games and MMOs, but this is beyond boring.
Didn't bother to RTFA, eh? He isn't trying to make warm water cold. He's moving cold water into the warm water via pumps. That's a hell of a lot easier.
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Do these garbage collectors die from things that are their own fault, or from the fault of the engineers and ground-crew? That makes a big difference in the statistics.
Also, I doubt garbage collector deaths are due from someone saying 'ah, it's safe enough' and letting it be. Their equipment is as safe as it could be made. Why expect any different for an astronaut?
At first I thought you mean the Indie Game Devs had started their own **AA. That's what this article is, you know... All the Indies getting together and bitching.
If XBLA published every Indie game that applied for it, there would be a flood of really, really crappy games and you could barely find the good ones. If MS is artificially limiting the number of games, it's because it wants to keep the offerings in the 'good-to-great' range and not offer junk just to make some quick cash.
Try this: Name 3 Indie games that was turned away from XBLA that was or would have been successes. If they are being turned away in droves, naming 3 of them should not be that hard.
Copyright isn't to stop amateur photographers from taking pictures. It's to stop crooks from selling someone else's pictures. In fact, it has nothing at all to do with the actual taking of the pictures. It's the end product that is covered.
While I think Copyright is way too strong, and should be something that ends within the author's lifetime, and not a century afterward, I think dropping it altogether is too far to the extreme, too.
Bingo. This has absolutely nothing to do with the 'online forum' and everything to do with inappropriate conduct in the workplace. If these people didn't read it on the 'online forum', they'd have read it elsewhere instead and the same thing would have happened.
I think it's important to note that in your analogy, the alternative to giving back the money for the stolen car is to just take the car and not give you the money. That could actually happen.
In this case, could that happen as well? Yes, I think it could.
Yeah, as I stated on my other post, I got sick of finding out that games were complete crap after spending $60 on them. (Actually, I think it was $50 at the time.) So I rent now.
But my comment above still stands... During those months, I couldn't even find any games worth -renting- and I was still paying the rental fees (GameFly) whether I rented games or not.
Newsflash: Games have matured. When video games were new, everything was innovative. As hardware evolved, and controls changed, things were innovative. There were a few ideas that made new genres... But most games these days can't be innovative because it's all be done before.
The Wii was supposed to be 'innovative', but ended up lackluster. Natal... I'm betting on more of the same.
And it's not that there aren't 'innovative' games... Every new innovative game in the 'casual' game industry creates a flood of new games. And Trash Panic (aka Gomibako) is pretty innovative. And Pain. And... Yeah, they're out there.
I did, about 3-4 years ago now. After I bought 2 $60 pieces of crap in a row, I decided enough was enough. Now I spend $15-$35 a month on rentals (depending on how many good games are out there that I want to play) and probably save $30-200 a month on games. If it's really, really good I might buy it immediately. If it's just good, I might buy it later when I see it really cheap. All the rest just go back.
So yeah, the game industry really shot themselves in the foot. Too many crap games, especially ones that look great in the previews and ads, means I almost never pre-order a game. (I've preordered a few since then, and a couple were crap... Reinforced my rental decision, I can tell you.)
Just June? My GameFly queue was empty for about 4 months. June is when they started releasing games I'd play again!
Opera 10 did a lot better job, though. It loaded the page without the fonts, then loaded the fonts as it could. (Still hate the fonts.)
Safari didn't show anything where the missing fonts were, then showed them as they loaded, and then crashed.
That's okay, Safari crashed for me... Twice. I got to see a couple of the fonts before it went, though. And yeah, they were ugly.
Tricking your child into going to a 'hospital' where they tie the child down and shock them for 30 minutes at a time... There's no way that doesn't leave mental scars.
"Some Chinese medical experts still believe shock treatment for Internet addiction does not harm children, but the majority disavow it, said Tao Ran, the founder of a Beijing treatment center Web-addicted teens, during a recent interview."
Sure, as long as you're only worried about their physical health, I'm sure it doesn't... Too bad it scars them for life mentally.
Running every image file through the extractor is a lot more processor-intensive than just looking for data beyond the 'end' of the file.
So... All of them, huh? Seriously, this isn't really a top 10 or comparison, it just lists a bunch of them. I'd be a -lot- more interested in open source ones that anyone can use without paying tons of money.
Except that this looks just like image data... Because it is! There's no 'appended' file. It's converted into image data, then reconverted at the end user. It will be a lot harder to detect this.
It is actually a glass bowl, and -I- have trouble with the water level, so that could be it.
My cat just has an annoying meow sound she makes when she wants attention. It's not cute or nice, it just grates on the nerves. She was very late in learning to meow when she wants things, so I think that has a lot to do with it. (I had another cat that took care of her and did all the asking, so she never had to. After he died, she had to learn to take care of herself and she was already like 5 years old.)
There's no doubt she learns, though... But sometimes she 'learns' things that are wrong. For instance, for some reason she thinks that I'll fill up the water bowl more often if she drops food in it. She's wrong, but she's done it for years now. There's always exactly 1 piece, no matter how far from the food bowl it is.
You have to define 'news' pretty carefully to make this claim true.
If you only look at stories that were on Mainstream Media, then their numbers are probably pretty close.
If you look at news reported by bloggers, MSM doesn't even report the vast majority of it. 'New KDE Release' has -never- been on MSM, yet it's 'news' to me and I value the information.
Another quick Google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=lawsuits+over+adwords+trademark&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Yes, there have been other lawsuits like this.
You don't graduate a college/uni with 'expertise'. You graduate with knowledge. Expertise is learned by actually working in the field. The closest you might come is if you find a school that requires you to apprentice for 2 years before you can graduate, like a medical doctor/nurse/etc has to. I doubt you'll find one.
Stop thinking you need to learn a language and start thinking you need to learn to program. A good programmer can pick up any language as needed. A great programmer can start programming on day 1 with just a reference book and no prior knowledge of the language.
How the hell did speculation about the -name- of a possible future WoW expansion make the front page? I like games and MMOs, but this is beyond boring.
Cripes, all we need is for insurance companies to add 'lack of action by God' to their list of things they don't cover.
Didn't bother to RTFA, eh? He isn't trying to make warm water cold. He's moving cold water into the warm water via pumps. That's a hell of a lot easier.