Let's get this straight -- they're transcribing an archaic form of handwriting, from a language they don't know, using characters they don't know, for a guy who's going to pay them minimum wage and isn't going to check their work. Yeah, right.
Back then it was called "demo-optical perception." It was complete crap that only worked if the person was wearing a poorly-designed blindfold. In a properly conducted test, this "power" disappeared entirely.
Your child has condemned himself to the humiliation of having everyone know his father is a big nerd. Well, it's his own fault for volunteering you. Unfortunately, his respect for you will now plummet and you will have trouble keeping him off drugs three years from now. After several minor run-ins with the law, he will end up studying general accounting at community college, and take a job cooking the books for a corrupt tire warehouse in Des Moines. His wife will commit suicide at 32. Your grandchildren will be spoiled and ugly.
You can, however, prevent all this by claiming to be an astronaut.
Your resume is supposed to get you a job. You aren't supposed to lie on it, but there's no law that says you have include items that don't serve your interests. If someone asks what you've been doing, just tell them it was a stop-loss job while you looked for work.
Or employees. Customers are just people they sell their products to; employees are people they hire when they need labor. The definition of "better" doesn't include them. Better, in business terms, means more valuable and more profitable.
Electronic Arts was definitely better after it bought Tiburon. Tiburon was a truly excellent development studio, working closely with EA, and it was in both their interests for EA to buy them.
The fact that you're dumb enough to post a picture of yourself breaking the law DOES have a bearing on your ability to be a good student.
Admissions officers have to make judgments on SOME basis besides GPA, and universities are communities of scholars, not just diploma-factories. We used to exclude women and blacks because they wouldn't fit in; now we exclude dimwits, which is much more fair and makes good sense.
If you post stuff about yourself that reflects badly on you, you have no grounds for complaint. Live with the consequences of your actions or don't post.
Underage drinking may or may not be a bad idea; telling the world about it definitely is. Why should a college want to admit a moron with no judgment?
Large quantities are produced all the time. Much of it is dross -- short-lived light entertainment at best. But the greats will eventually begin to stand out. It's no different for video games. Tetris is our The Gold Rush.
I don't see what could possibly be improved by giving the same wankers who invented spam, phishing, viruses, worms, trojans, 411 scams, Google-bombs, etc. ad nauseum, influence Google's search results.
The only disk space I would be comfortable donating to this would be on a Truecrypted drive, so even if someone cracks their protection, it's secondarily protected by mine. If the cops seize my drive, they find nothing.
One person's fun is another person's misery. I loathe action games, but love adventure games. Many people feel the opposite. You can't just say "make it fun" without discussing what that really means to your target audience.
Gee-whiz technology brings the fanboys, and that used to be enough, but not any more. Enabling technology like the Wii controller, however, allows people who wouldn't otherwise play to enjoy themselves.
If a technology doesn't last more than four or five years, why bother? Regular DVD works perfectly well -- I don't particularly want to see James Coburn's pores, thank you -- and is now cheap and ubiquitous.
... is that it's supposed to be redundant and fault-tolerant -- where "fault" includes people trying to sabotage it either physically by cutting wires, or virtually through censorship and spying. The more different routes there are, the better.
We were both software engineers when we got married, and our company used Pascal. We were going to get ordinary white gold rings, one engraved "REPEAT" and the other engraved "UNTIL." You can't have one without the other.
In the end we didn't, which is probably just as well as hers slipped off her finger while snorkeling on Maui.
Ralph Nader got us George W. Bush, which was the worst thing to happen to America since WWII. Oh, yeah, and without the benefit of a decisive victory, and a net loss, rather than gain, in world prestige.
Ralph Nader shares the blame for the damage to America that George Bush has wrought.
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Let's get this straight -- they're transcribing an archaic form of handwriting, from a language they don't know, using characters they don't know, for a guy who's going to pay them minimum wage and isn't going to check their work. Yeah, right.
Meant to write "dermo-optical perception." As for citations, see Carl Sagan or Martin Gardner.
Back then it was called "demo-optical perception." It was complete crap that only worked if the person was wearing a poorly-designed blindfold. In a properly conducted test, this "power" disappeared entirely.
Your child has condemned himself to the humiliation of having everyone know his father is a big nerd. Well, it's his own fault for volunteering you. Unfortunately, his respect for you will now plummet and you will have trouble keeping him off drugs three years from now. After several minor run-ins with the law, he will end up studying general accounting at community college, and take a job cooking the books for a corrupt tire warehouse in Des Moines. His wife will commit suicide at 32. Your grandchildren will be spoiled and ugly.
You can, however, prevent all this by claiming to be an astronaut.
Your resume is supposed to get you a job. You aren't supposed to lie on it, but there's no law that says you have include items that don't serve your interests. If someone asks what you've been doing, just tell them it was a stop-loss job while you looked for work.
Or employees. Customers are just people they sell their products to; employees are people they hire when they need labor. The definition of "better" doesn't include them. Better, in business terms, means more valuable and more profitable.
Electronic Arts was definitely better after it bought Tiburon. Tiburon was a truly excellent development studio, working closely with EA, and it was in both their interests for EA to buy them.
It also includes their trademarked name. How dare it!
The fact that you're dumb enough to post a picture of yourself breaking the law DOES have a bearing on your ability to be a good student.
Admissions officers have to make judgments on SOME basis besides GPA, and universities are communities of scholars, not just diploma-factories. We used to exclude women and blacks because they wouldn't fit in; now we exclude dimwits, which is much more fair and makes good sense.
Greatest, in terms of biggest, would have to be a Dyson sphere. I see the Japanese haven't started on THAT one yet.
If you post stuff about yourself that reflects badly on you, you have no grounds for complaint. Live with the consequences of your actions or don't post. Underage drinking may or may not be a bad idea; telling the world about it definitely is. Why should a college want to admit a moron with no judgment?
Large quantities are produced all the time. Much of it is dross -- short-lived light entertainment at best. But the greats will eventually begin to stand out. It's no different for video games. Tetris is our The Gold Rush.
I don't see what could possibly be improved by giving the same wankers who invented spam, phishing, viruses, worms, trojans, 411 scams, Google-bombs, etc. ad nauseum, influence Google's search results.
The only disk space I would be comfortable donating to this would be on a Truecrypted drive, so even if someone cracks their protection, it's secondarily protected by mine. If the cops seize my drive, they find nothing.
Female promiscuity does not extend to male IT geeks. Messalina herself wouldn't have been interested.
"Sorry our Predator drone blew up an entire family and 25 bystanders -- somebody in the crowd was walking like a terrorist we once saw."
One person's fun is another person's misery. I loathe action games, but love adventure games. Many people feel the opposite. You can't just say "make it fun" without discussing what that really means to your target audience. Gee-whiz technology brings the fanboys, and that used to be enough, but not any more. Enabling technology like the Wii controller, however, allows people who wouldn't otherwise play to enjoy themselves.
The VCR worked just fine and most of the movies available were crap.
What prompted me to get the DVD player had nothing to do with DVD technology itself, but the invention of Netflix and its competitors.
If a technology doesn't last more than four or five years, why bother? Regular DVD works perfectly well -- I don't particularly want to see James Coburn's pores, thank you -- and is now cheap and ubiquitous.
I don't think anyone is actively in favor of making the climate worse than it already is, except maybe pentecostalists.
There seem to be an awful lot of climate change Pollyannas around though.
Did it occur to you that the tropics being colder than usual might not be a good thing either?
So what makes you think you are entitled to privacy there? If you want privacy, stay in private places.
Next we'll have people at the ballpark suing the network because they showed up on TV when a foul ball went into the stands.
Communism was never the problem. The problem was and is, the Russians.
C'mon -- SOME network is going to see the publicity value of this story and run with it.
We were both software engineers when we got married, and our company used Pascal. We were going to get ordinary white gold rings, one engraved "REPEAT" and the other engraved "UNTIL." You can't have one without the other.
In the end we didn't, which is probably just as well as hers slipped off her finger while snorkeling on Maui.
Ralph Nader got us George W. Bush, which was the worst thing to happen to America since WWII. Oh, yeah, and without the benefit of a decisive victory, and a net loss, rather than gain, in world prestige.
Ralph Nader shares the blame for the damage to America that George Bush has wrought.