I'm not sure I agree with that. Humans *can* have goals that don't include reproduction and raising of young as a primary purpose, but the sheer number of organisms who breed as soon as resource allocation makes possible (and often earlier) vs those who don't and have other goals which never include reproduction and raising of offspring would seem to indicate that reproduction is still the singular, most powerful driving force for homo sapiens.
Sorry I meant "Linux or OS X" not "Windows or OS X", though if you take it to mean "Regardless of whether Windows or OS X have 90%..." then it kind of works;)
If Windows or OS X had 90% of the desktop market, the same users that currently click "Okay" or "Yes" on everything would be entering in their root/admin password for those OSes. It's about social engineering at that point, not necessarily the technical merits of the OS itself.
Not really. There's no reason why it would take more than a week. Doesn't seem like you are all that familiar with the realities of red tape and bureaucracy, not to mention cost-benefit ratio for something like that.
Mandarin speakers in mainland China typically use simplified hanzi, and I have to imagine the literate of the other geographically close dialects do as well.
However, the Cantonese speakers I've known all learned traditional hanzi, which shows up a lot in kanji as well (tho there seems to be some simplified in there, in addition to some other forms, I guess). So really this probably doesn't directly impact the dev efforts vis a vis mainland China.
Well, I don't know exactly how the Flickr system is set up, but I imagine if they pull from an image server (or 10) they could just block the IPs of the image servers. Flickr still works, but the images don't load.
Well, I can't speak to why you've never heard of the songs, but if you look at the previous Guitar Hero game song lists (in-game, at that), you'll see that aside from the bonus/original/boring tracks (and I think 1 track in GH2), they're all "As Made Famous By" credits.
There's a lot of songs... a LOT of Iron Maiden songs that are easier than Wrathchild. Granted, it's not the hardest song either, but it's guitar-heavy and has a lot of interesting rhythms. Plus I bet the licensing cost on it was low.
Just FYI, with rare exception the first 2 GH releases have all been "As Made Famous By..." tracks. Yes, there were the "original" tracks, but I personally didn't have much interest in them. At any rate, 99% have been covers anyway, so unsure why you'd be surprised that these are also covers.
Yeah, I imagine that what they really did was break down and get a contractor to look at the source of whatever CMS app they use and figure out that some var wasn't at a proper value or a flag was turned on/off when it should have been off/on, etc. Decompile sounds so much more "hi-tech" tho!
From a few links in the Ars Technica posting of this story, this seems to be essentially correct. The Telecom worker union does copper (and the workflow involves 4 of their workers at different levels to provision/change lines), while the fibre workers, while unionized (apparently), are a different union group, with a different job description/position, and involves less workers for provisioning.
Or, more recently (say the last 30 years) PMC's made up of former US military that perform outsourced tasks for the DOD in both combat and non-combat operations.
I doubt all these people being caught in their underwear or picking their nose or walking past strip clubs on Google Street View knew about or agreed to that photography. I hate to nitpick (nah, I don't really), but when one is in public, one's expectations of privacy (not being photographed, for example) are significantly diminished, if not nearly non-existent.
MUSH and MUSE (and prolly other MU* variations) had end-user content in a multi-user game in the late 80's/early 90's. Internet access just wasn't as pervasive back then.
See my reply below. It's not that it's similar, but rather that it's almost exactly the same. And again, not that I'm worked up about it or something, just that my initial impression of "did they license stuff from the movies" was "yes" when I played the game, and the interview's answer to the question being the opposite stuck out for me.
Yeah, someone else told me this as well, though it seems to me (not that it really *matters* to me, one way or the other) that the actual visualizations (not just the stylings) for the game are pretty much taken directly from the movie. But, who knows. I personally find the game rather interesting so far, in spite of what others have said (tho it's an MMO, so the gripers are always louder than the ones who like the game, so it's hard sometimes to figure out what the actual real quality-level of the thing is, y'know?)
If nothing else, tho, it's really frickin' pretty.
Well, since Yahweh was originally part of a pantheon of gods, and since a lot of the OT creation story "borrows" from other sources, it stands to reason that the language carried over. Remember that monotheism was a fairly innovative concept at the time, and as such they were adapting old traditions into this new paradigm.
However, one has to wonder if a person of the time really was all that monotheistic in terms of worldview. To this day, some "converted" non-European Christian communities worship other gods alongside Yahweh/Jehova.
I always liked the plural of that, "behold, the man has become like one of us". It's always interesting to hear about the Biblical source materials, though. For some reason that never gets well taught, and the book has so many varied sources, I'm always learning new bits.
Slashdot: Okay. No plans ever to tap into the license from the movies at all?
Mr. Anderson: Oh, you know, never say never. Who knows? There's currently nothing about them in the game. In terms of constraints[...] I don't see how this can be... I've played the game and the use of visuals from the movie is pretty obvious (if for nothing else their visualization of the Eye of Sauron), but how Rivendell looks, how the Nazgul look, etc etc are _really_ obviously taken from the New Line Cinema movies...
Well, kinda the reason that the Vikings play indoors now (in a crappy stadium, granted). -30F windchild makes the Packer fans take their shirt off, -30F makes Minnesotans go "y'know, why don't we make something so that we're not freezin' our asses off?"
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I'm not sure I agree with that. Humans *can* have goals that don't include reproduction and raising of young as a primary purpose, but the sheer number of organisms who breed as soon as resource allocation makes possible (and often earlier) vs those who don't and have other goals which never include reproduction and raising of offspring would seem to indicate that reproduction is still the singular, most powerful driving force for homo sapiens.
Sorry I meant "Linux or OS X" not "Windows or OS X", though if you take it to mean "Regardless of whether Windows or OS X have 90%..." then it kind of works ;)
If Windows or OS X had 90% of the desktop market, the same users that currently click "Okay" or "Yes" on everything would be entering in their root/admin password for those OSes. It's about social engineering at that point, not necessarily the technical merits of the OS itself.
Mandarin speakers in mainland China typically use simplified hanzi, and I have to imagine the literate of the other geographically close dialects do as well.
However, the Cantonese speakers I've known all learned traditional hanzi, which shows up a lot in kanji as well (tho there seems to be some simplified in there, in addition to some other forms, I guess). So really this probably doesn't directly impact the dev efforts vis a vis mainland China.
Well, I don't know exactly how the Flickr system is set up, but I imagine if they pull from an image server (or 10) they could just block the IPs of the image servers. Flickr still works, but the images don't load.
AFAIK, they own all the network infrastructure, so it's a trivial task to set up IP filtering on the incoming/outgoing routers for the country.
Well, I can't speak to why you've never heard of the songs, but if you look at the previous Guitar Hero game song lists (in-game, at that), you'll see that aside from the bonus/original/boring tracks (and I think 1 track in GH2), they're all "As Made Famous By" credits.
The Krokus one was fairly well circulated, though I'm slowly beginning to believe that Krokus never did an original song...
I'm kind of perplexed by the White Lion selection, though. They had at least 3 popular singles, so why pick a cover?
There's a lot of songs... a LOT of Iron Maiden songs that are easier than Wrathchild. Granted, it's not the hardest song either, but it's guitar-heavy and has a lot of interesting rhythms. Plus I bet the licensing cost on it was low.
I dunno, since somehow, magically, I already knew all these songs were on there... SlashDelay again. Or maybe it's just ZonkDelay
Just FYI, with rare exception the first 2 GH releases have all been "As Made Famous By..." tracks. Yes, there were the "original" tracks, but I personally didn't have much interest in them. At any rate, 99% have been covers anyway, so unsure why you'd be surprised that these are also covers.
Yeah, I imagine that what they really did was break down and get a contractor to look at the source of whatever CMS app they use and figure out that some var wasn't at a proper value or a flag was turned on/off when it should have been off/on, etc. Decompile sounds so much more "hi-tech" tho!
From a few links in the Ars Technica posting of this story, this seems to be essentially correct. The Telecom worker union does copper (and the workflow involves 4 of their workers at different levels to provision/change lines), while the fibre workers, while unionized (apparently), are a different union group, with a different job description/position, and involves less workers for provisioning.
Or, more recently (say the last 30 years) PMC's made up of former US military that perform outsourced tasks for the DOD in both combat and non-combat operations.
It seems to be a slightly less common but sometimes used phrase.
MUSH and MUSE (and prolly other MU* variations) had end-user content in a multi-user game in the late 80's/early 90's. Internet access just wasn't as pervasive back then.
See my reply below. It's not that it's similar, but rather that it's almost exactly the same. And again, not that I'm worked up about it or something, just that my initial impression of "did they license stuff from the movies" was "yes" when I played the game, and the interview's answer to the question being the opposite stuck out for me.
Yeah, someone else told me this as well, though it seems to me (not that it really *matters* to me, one way or the other) that the actual visualizations (not just the stylings) for the game are pretty much taken directly from the movie. But, who knows. I personally find the game rather interesting so far, in spite of what others have said (tho it's an MMO, so the gripers are always louder than the ones who like the game, so it's hard sometimes to figure out what the actual real quality-level of the thing is, y'know?)
If nothing else, tho, it's really frickin' pretty.
Well, since Yahweh was originally part of a pantheon of gods, and since a lot of the OT creation story "borrows" from other sources, it stands to reason that the language carried over. Remember that monotheism was a fairly innovative concept at the time, and as such they were adapting old traditions into this new paradigm.
However, one has to wonder if a person of the time really was all that monotheistic in terms of worldview. To this day, some "converted" non-European Christian communities worship other gods alongside Yahweh/Jehova.
I always liked the plural of that, "behold, the man has become like one of us". It's always interesting to hear about the Biblical source materials, though. For some reason that never gets well taught, and the book has so many varied sources, I'm always learning new bits.
Well, kinda the reason that the Vikings play indoors now (in a crappy stadium, granted). -30F windchild makes the Packer fans take their shirt off, -30F makes Minnesotans go "y'know, why don't we make something so that we're not freezin' our asses off?"
The Packers definitely don't play in a Dome. I was making a comparison between the Packers and the Broncos, not the Vikings and the Broncos.