Well, Brexit is a thing in part because news stories like this grossly distort what the original report is actually saying.
Shouldn't we be considering the legal liabilities for robots that cause damage, or the effect of robots on the labor force? These things get thrown around on Slashdot an awful lot these days - it's hardly an irrelevant discussion.
My guess would be that even without the Chinese conspiracy theory, the stamps would be rejected.
Putting the Dalai Lama on a stamp surely constitutes the advocation of a religious figure. I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't have rules to stop you from doing that.
If you're worried about formaldehyde production in your body then you'd better give up eating a lot of food.
I think drinks companies must actually love aspartame. It's basically been arbitrarily chosen to be the focus of wide-spread (and still as of yet largely unproven) hysteria. It the perfect distraction, while they get to pump the drinks with as much sugar as they like.
>There's also the fact that said chief researcher used the research to make herself into something of a national star.
She did? The Japanese media did that all by themeselves - and largely because she is female. Obokata made complaints about the gross invasion of her privacy even before this became a scandal. She was everywhere - and I don't think she had much choice in the matter.
I wouldn't claim she has any innocence in this case - but there was a pretty clear attempt by the center (especially in the early days) to scapegoat her and her alone for everything.
Champagne, Switzerland has been producing wine since before Dom Perignon came up with his method of making sparkling wine
Actually Dom Perignon worked hard to prevent the formation of sparkling wine, because it represented quite a big health hazard.
Personally I think the threat of exploding wine bottles would have some parties a lot more fun.
We are delighted to hear of your most recent mouse developments. For too long has there been a line of segregation between those who work inside the office, and those that work outside. Before down, we only understood the concept of Internet time-wasting (an oft mentioned topic on Slashdot) in theory. Finally, we will get to surf porn at work and play flash games, with the same freedoms are everyone.
Something more akin to col~er/col~eur, I think. I believe the spare 'u' just acts as a phonetic modifier, like a silent 'e'; it's inclusion should be a pronunciation aid. After all, it's not pronounced col-or either.
It's probably not something to get too worked up about; but it does smack of laziness on the part of publishers that they can't be bothered to change this stuff. It's prevalent across all mediums though, and doesn't seem to work the other way around. The colour of Magic, for example, is billed as color in the US. But I still have to wince when I see adverts for the Time Travelers Wife shown in the UK.
Yeah! This being Slashdot it made me think how ludicrous the situation is in the car world. I mean why should I shell out for insurance ever year? I mean, if everyone else is insured where's the problem if I skip out.
But what stops the police themselves editing Wikipedia, and then citing it back in court? It seems exactly the sort of thing the British police would do these days...
It's not just you, but it's not every gamer either.
It all depends on how you perceive enjoyment from a game. Personally, if the story is tight and engaging but linear I'll happy sit through almost any number of cutscences they throw at me. The idea of an "interactive movie" isn't an instant turn-off, it just has to be a good movie.
The problem with Heavy Rain and its type, is how to attract the right audience. Adventure fans may be drawn in with a story, no matter how conceptually linear, but they'll hate the twitch controls. But an action gamer is going to find the notion of any kind of 'game' here to be severely lacking.
But if they pull off the kind of dynamic storytelling they're promising then they may have something on their hands...
Like the other poster mentions there doesn't seem to be any objective metric here at all.
Bioshock sold well and was well received - but I wouldn't call it influential - you'd have to put System Shock on the list then surely.
But on the other hand I thought Ico was considered a commercial failure - despite being well received. It does count as an influence for the, much better selling, Shadow of the Colossus (so why isn't that on the list instead?).
It's not just the viewing experience. Computers almost always do something crazy to my attention span; I can read a book for a long time, but on a computer I'd struggle to concentrate. It happens with almost everything, watching movies, reading, writing on a computer - there's an overwhelming feeling that I could just be doing something else too. I'm just too weak willed and...
(1) That's because they recalled that a previous Democracy in Athens had killed one of mankind's greatest thinkers, Socrates, simply because they didn't like him.
That's a tad oversimplifying things. Plato stood strongly against democracy, and (although we don't know) it's not unreasonable to suggest that Socrates did too. Plato's Socrates may have been killed because "they didn`t like him", but the real Socrates? He may very well of been the man that brought tyranny to the city.
" It's a pity that most people would never think about reading them"
Most classicists wouldn't even consider reading some of this stuff either until about 70 years ago. When it comes to books like Suetonius and Petronius the reputation from stuffy is well deserved. I think there are still untranslated sections in the Loeb of De vita Caesarum. And Satyricon (and to an extent all the Ancient novels) was heavily sidestepped because of its strong homosexual content - and when it was studied, it was only through some bizarre Christian/Freudian moralising framework.
Can someone tell me what 'employee monitoring software' does? Does it track your activity through the building? At your desk? I've never seen or heard of it before here in Japan, it does sound terribly sinister though...
I get your point and partially agree, but I don't think you're given example is great for this. Most people, however wrong, would probably write 'stadiums' now. This is more a cultural shift towards a greater standardisation of language than a move against it; people just following the logical rules that most of the time do apply. You're not going to get failures of communication by messing with the plurals of a few seldom used words, but by introducing shiny new ones.
It's not completely regarded as a myth; there are a handful of Galileo scholars that think there may be some reality to it. It's all conjecture though, a single source of questionable reliability will forever make it impossible to distinguish myth from fact.
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Northern Ireland voted 44.2 - 58.8 for remain.
Shouldn't we be considering the legal liabilities for robots that cause damage, or the effect of robots on the labor force? These things get thrown around on Slashdot an awful lot these days - it's hardly an irrelevant discussion.
The iPhone is popular here but I wouldn't say as popular as it used to be, or is in other countries.
Actually quite the opposite - iOS marketshare is huge here, and doesn't show much sign of slowing down. Here is a handy table.
Putting the Dalai Lama on a stamp surely constitutes the advocation of a religious figure. I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't have rules to stop you from doing that.
I think drinks companies must actually love aspartame. It's basically been arbitrarily chosen to be the focus of wide-spread (and still as of yet largely unproven) hysteria. It the perfect distraction, while they get to pump the drinks with as much sugar as they like.
She did? The Japanese media did that all by themeselves - and largely because she is female. Obokata made complaints about the gross invasion of her privacy even before this became a scandal. She was everywhere - and I don't think she had much choice in the matter.
I wouldn't claim she has any innocence in this case - but there was a pretty clear attempt by the center (especially in the early days) to scapegoat her and her alone for everything.
I don't own a Wii U or Mario Kart - but a quick glance at metacritic shows it getting reviews ranging from very good to amazing.
Without some kind of time-travel I don't see how that is even possible.
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Champagne, Switzerland has been producing wine since before Dom Perignon came up with his method of making sparkling wine
Actually Dom Perignon worked hard to prevent the formation of sparkling wine, because it represented quite a big health hazard. Personally I think the threat of exploding wine bottles would have some parties a lot more fun.
We are delighted to hear of your most recent mouse developments. For too long has there been a line of segregation between those who work inside the office, and those that work outside. Before down, we only understood the concept of Internet time-wasting (an oft mentioned topic on Slashdot) in theory. Finally, we will get to surf porn at work and play flash games, with the same freedoms are everyone.
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The Window Cleaners Union
It's probably not something to get too worked up about; but it does smack of laziness on the part of publishers that they can't be bothered to change this stuff. It's prevalent across all mediums though, and doesn't seem to work the other way around. The colour of Magic, for example, is billed as color in the US. But I still have to wince when I see adverts for the Time Travelers Wife shown in the UK.
Yeah! This being Slashdot it made me think how ludicrous the situation is in the car world. I mean why should I shell out for insurance ever year? I mean, if everyone else is insured where's the problem if I skip out.
But what stops the police themselves editing Wikipedia, and then citing it back in court? It seems exactly the sort of thing the British police would do these days...
It all depends on how you perceive enjoyment from a game. Personally, if the story is tight and engaging but linear I'll happy sit through almost any number of cutscences they throw at me. The idea of an "interactive movie" isn't an instant turn-off, it just has to be a good movie.
The problem with Heavy Rain and its type, is how to attract the right audience. Adventure fans may be drawn in with a story, no matter how conceptually linear, but they'll hate the twitch controls. But an action gamer is going to find the notion of any kind of 'game' here to be severely lacking.
But if they pull off the kind of dynamic storytelling they're promising then they may have something on their hands...
Of course definitions don't demonstrate tone. Feel free to insert you own [irony] tags there...
Replacing a newspaper is somewhat cheaper.
Bioshock sold well and was well received - but I wouldn't call it influential - you'd have to put System Shock on the list then surely.
But on the other hand I thought Ico was considered a commercial failure - despite being well received. It does count as an influence for the, much better selling, Shadow of the Colossus (so why isn't that on the list instead?).
It's not just the viewing experience. Computers almost always do something crazy to my attention span; I can read a book for a long time, but on a computer I'd struggle to concentrate. It happens with almost everything, watching movies, reading, writing on a computer - there's an overwhelming feeling that I could just be doing something else too. I'm just too weak willed and...
That's a tad oversimplifying things. Plato stood strongly against democracy, and (although we don't know) it's not unreasonable to suggest that Socrates did too. Plato's Socrates may have been killed because "they didn`t like him", but the real Socrates? He may very well of been the man that brought tyranny to the city.
Most classicists wouldn't even consider reading some of this stuff either until about 70 years ago. When it comes to books like Suetonius and Petronius the reputation from stuffy is well deserved. I think there are still untranslated sections in the Loeb of De vita Caesarum. And Satyricon (and to an extent all the Ancient novels) was heavily sidestepped because of its strong homosexual content - and when it was studied, it was only through some bizarre Christian/Freudian moralising framework.
Can someone tell me what 'employee monitoring software' does? Does it track your activity through the building? At your desk? I've never seen or heard of it before here in Japan, it does sound terribly sinister though...
I guess you're implying that if a nuclear reactor goes then lots of people may die...which is somehow worse than a couple of people dying everyday...
I get your point and partially agree, but I don't think you're given example is great for this. Most people, however wrong, would probably write 'stadiums' now. This is more a cultural shift towards a greater standardisation of language than a move against it; people just following the logical rules that most of the time do apply. You're not going to get failures of communication by messing with the plurals of a few seldom used words, but by introducing shiny new ones.
It's mere coincidence that the actual killer thought the same way.
It's not completely regarded as a myth; there are a handful of Galileo scholars that think there may be some reality to it. It's all conjecture though, a single source of questionable reliability will forever make it impossible to distinguish myth from fact.