I wouldn't be surprised if this were a side effect of Europes (not-so) recent Restriction of Hazardous Substances laws, which mean manufacturers need to use unleaded solder, which leads to tin whiskers.
The whiskers grow slowly and cause no harm, until they do cause harm (maybe a couple years down the line) -- and when they do, it is often catastrophic.
It should say "the native depopulation and consequent re-forestation" rather than "native depopulation and deforestation". In current models, it doesn't make sense that deforestation leads to cooling.
The/. article title helps propagate the widespread popular confusion between radiation and radioactive materials. Radiation helps you detect contamination with radioactive materials, similar to how light helps you detect the sun. The editor should have stuck with either of the phrasings from the first link -- "10 cases of radiation" or "10 cases of radioactive contamination" -- rather than combine them.
And remember, you don't look "to" credentials, you look "at" them.
PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell And the profit and loss.
A current under sea Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
The PS3 version is shipping with extra content because Sony won't allow them to ship otherwise. Games that ship simultaneously are given more leeway; but if the 360 version ships first, the game must contain features that set the ps3 version apart. It doesn't take much thought to see why this is a very smart tactic. I don't know of any examples of PS3 SKUs shipping first off the top of my head, but you'll see Microsoft doing the same thing.
If a game fits on DVD, you can be sure that a game + 5% added assets can also be made to fit on DVD. And note that amount of content/gameplay != amount of assets; if I add a ton of new content, it may reuse lots of existing assets (as in the case of making a character playable). If I had to guess, the bulk of new assets will be new audio.
[Stallman] is rather concerned with some strange philosophy that hard work shouldn't pay. [..] RMS somehow reminds me of Bin Laden telling America they need to forsake democracy. What an exciting moment, to witness a variant of Godwin's Law struggling to be born.
An evens/odds system is effectively D2; Hollow Earth Expedition uses one and makes it practical (see http://www.exilegames.com/games/ubiquity.html). As another poster has pointed out, 25D4 (or 50D2) is not the same as 1D100. With the former you get a bell-shaped distribution (google normal distribution or gaussian distribution); with the latter, it's flat. Their system takes advantage of this.
A clever result of their D2 system is that you can make a 2^n-sided die worth effectively n coin flips by putting the correct binomial distribution on it; a die of value 2 would have sides 0 1 1 2, and value 3 would have sides 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 3. If you need to flip 10 coins/roll 10 dice, grab any number of dice that add to 10. Simple, streamlined, and flexible.
It's shortsighted to view a successful team as solely a collection of "human resources" to be broken up and spread around among projects. Smoothly functioning teams don't appear by magic when you throw a bunch of resources together; it takes time, and sometimes they don't appear at all.
A illiterate intro based on a brief article from a random blog that doesn't quote any sources. That's what I call credibility. I will use my karma bonus and bump your post. It is really quite sad that it took so long for someone to point out these obvious facts.
Etymotics in-ear headphones are great at blocking outside noise. Their earplugs are also good, too; they have a relatively flat attenuation-vs-frequency curve.
I got my pair several years back; I think other companies have jumped on the in-ear bandwagon since then.
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This is a bad article; and the submitter, editor, and readers should all feel bad.
I have a device that gives you the winning lottery numbers ahead of time, but it has only a 10% chance of being correct. Is it useful?
I wouldn't be surprised if this were a side effect of Europes (not-so) recent Restriction of Hazardous Substances laws, which mean manufacturers need to use unleaded solder, which leads to tin whiskers.
The whiskers grow slowly and cause no harm, until they do cause harm (maybe a couple years down the line) -- and when they do, it is often catastrophic.
It should say "the native depopulation and consequent re-forestation" rather than "native depopulation and deforestation". In current models, it doesn't make sense that deforestation leads to cooling.
The /. article title helps propagate the widespread popular confusion between radiation and radioactive materials. Radiation helps you detect contamination with radioactive materials, similar to how light helps you detect the sun. The editor should have stuck with either of the phrasings from the first link -- "10 cases of radiation" or "10 cases of radioactive contamination" -- rather than combine them.
That was the best discussion post I've ever read on slashdot.
The MariaDB link should be http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Scott Adams logical fallacy #3, "I am the world". Thank you, anonymous slashdot moderator, for your "Troll" judgment.
(setq kill-emacs-query-functions '(kill-emacs-did-you-really-mean-that))
Using setq is antisocial. It blows away any other hooks that might have been set.
I use the moral equivalent of this:
(add-hook 'kill-emacs-query-functions (lambda () nil) 'append)
When I want to quit, I use M-C-: (kill-emacs)
And remember, you don't look "to" credentials, you look "at" them.
PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
>PR#6
*6[CONTROL-P]
The PS3 version is shipping with extra content because Sony won't allow them to ship otherwise. Games that ship simultaneously are given more leeway; but if the 360 version ships first, the game must contain features that set the ps3 version apart. It doesn't take much thought to see why this is a very smart tactic. I don't know of any examples of PS3 SKUs shipping first off the top of my head, but you'll see Microsoft doing the same thing.
If a game fits on DVD, you can be sure that a game + 5% added assets can also be made to fit on DVD. And note that amount of content/gameplay != amount of assets; if I add a ton of new content, it may reuse lots of existing assets (as in the case of making a character playable). If I had to guess, the bulk of new assets will be new audio.
An evens/odds system is effectively D2; Hollow Earth Expedition uses one and makes it practical (see http://www.exilegames.com/games/ubiquity.html). As another poster has pointed out, 25D4 (or 50D2) is not the same as 1D100. With the former you get a bell-shaped distribution (google normal distribution or gaussian distribution); with the latter, it's flat. Their system takes advantage of this.
A clever result of their D2 system is that you can make a 2^n-sided die worth effectively n coin flips by putting the correct binomial distribution on it; a die of value 2 would have sides 0 1 1 2, and value 3 would have sides 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 3. If you need to flip 10 coins/roll 10 dice, grab any number of dice that add to 10. Simple, streamlined, and flexible.
See a picture here:
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http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/windows/2006/04/0
And the spelling here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenanigan
It's shortsighted to view a successful team as solely a collection of "human resources" to be broken up and spread around among projects. Smoothly functioning teams don't appear by magic when you throw a bunch of resources together; it takes time, and sometimes they don't appear at all.
> made by lucas arts and not tell tale
You did know that Telltale was formed by people who were working on Sam and Max at LucasArts, right?
Specifically, the compilation _Notation, Notation, Notation_, page 130.
Why does the article link to a source 2 steps removed from the actual information?
http://ulo.tricho.us/?p=63
I'm sure you're familiar with the quote, but for everyone's benefit:
"Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation." (Feynman)
Psychonauts: 4 years in development, great game.
Etymotics in-ear headphones are great at blocking outside noise. Their earplugs are also good, too; they have a relatively flat attenuation-vs-frequency curve.
I got my pair several years back; I think other companies have jumped on the in-ear bandwagon since then.
Try Psychonauts!