their #1 fear isn't the rocket blowing up and getting killed, it's not fear of blacking out from G-forces, it's not fear of getting shot down, it's the fear of screwing up.
Same as the #1 fear from TFA. (fear of writing buggy code / messing up)
The official Pilot's Prayer (as handed to us by Alan Shepard) is "Lord, please don't let me fuck up".
Not "Lord, please don't let me blow up" or "Please keep me safe"
And I'm still up in the air about a PS4, and definitely not getting an Xbox One, so it's at least in contention. Ultimately it will come down to the games, like it always does. Nobody thought the DS could compare with the PSP, and then the games came out and everybody realized what was important.
He doesn't seem to get that no one accused Microsoft of collapsing as a company, but effectively coasting on previous success. And the thing about coasting, is that it means you had previously built up momentum. The fact that Microsoft kept making money just meant that they had built up a really strong market share. They just didn't do anything beyond what they already had.
I enjoyed Travian until I discovered it's possible to completely paralyze someone by destroying their farms, so that it's completely impossible for them to take any actions or recover at all. Then you just become a mining/logging subsidiary of whoever is nearby.
A statement that somehow the message of art 'degrades' as it reaches more people is something I assumed to hear from some art snob complaining about reproductions of the Mona Lisa, not about a video game starring Mario. The whole notion is insanely elitist, and I'm frankly flabbergasted that someone saw fit to print it.
Especially considering that they got the whole idea wrong - it's only a demo mode that shows you how to beat a section. In order to progress through the game, you still have to play it yourself!
If Rockstar managed to release San Andreas on the Playstation 2, a piece of hardware which was inferior to the gamecube, let alone the Wii, then I somehow doubt it's impossible to release an open world style game on the Wii. This basically just sounds like they don't really know what they're doing, and are wasting processor cycles on things they really don't need.
The thing that confuses me the most about this paper is his hatred for using anthropomorphic metaphors to describe the functioning of a program. It confuses me partly because his examples of why it's bad don't seem to actually address his complaint, or anything like it. But also, because the more I think about it, they seem to fit very well.
Program components may not be living things, but they do run autonomously. They perform actions, frequently without any input from me. They seem to do things and interact with other components on their own - why not describe it as such? There's also the fact that he doesn't give any alternate way of describing what's going on inside a program.
It's the equivalent of a biology class detailing the possibilities of life, by examining chemical interactions, without actually examining any actual living organisms.
even considering the subject matter. It covers that wikipedia is wiki + encyclopedia, but offers nothing on how wikis got their name (a hawaiian bus system), it just says that android was made by a company named Android, and says that OSX is the 10th mac os, without even bothering to look into the cat names at all. The only one with an actual interesting answer was Red Hat.
Nice sentiment, but sadly, the upper class already has the power. I'm sorry, but a poor working man who is wrongly accused of murder has little chance of finding a lawyer who will get him off, whereas... well, OJ Simpson. An immigrant family-owned business has no real legal discourse if the large real estate conglomerate that leases the storefront of the business decides to screw over the family.
Well, you're right, other than that these issues don't have much to do with the existence or non-existence of lawyers. Celebrities almost always get treated more leniently, and large corporations and conglomerates can usually find ways to screw over small business.
However, the upper classes having more power than the lower classes isn't new, nor did I say it wasn't the case. I said that eliminating lawyers would give the upper classes MORE power, even more than they already have.
Having a lawyer on your side is a good equalizer, even if the other side has a more expensive one. It's still better than no lawyer at all.
If you removed all lawyers and let all parties argue their own cases, you'd immediately see a drastic shift in power to the upper class and more educated, who would actually know the law, and have time to study and interpret it. The reason we have lawyers is so that EVERYONE has an expert on the law on their side.
Also there'd be a shift in power towards prosecution, since the state pretty much by definition has to have a lawyer, or at least one person who puts forward cases against a multitude of defendants.
It was set up and running by a friend of mine, before gleemax even launched. It's the same kind of blog/wiki/forum for gamers, except for it's meant for all kinds of games, and it's actually a good useful site.
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It's the latest Joker flick, Batman is just a secondary character.
You're converting a simple multiplication problem into an algebra problem, and a decently complex one if you were to write it out. While this may be fine for adults with a good grasp of algebra and equation manipulation, we're talking about children. I personally learned algebra in about 7th grade, and the times tables in 3rd. While memorization isn't the optimal solution for all cases, it's definitely a good and necessary stepping stone towards the best way.
Google used reams of data to get good at advertising and marketing, so Wired is using this ability to predict the end of SCIENCE?
Do they not realize the difference between these things? Advertising is extremely hand wavy and vague in the best of circumstances - I would argue that Google's offerings aren't really better than any other method, they're just cheaper for advertisers, and have a much larger base than normal.
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their #1 fear isn't the rocket blowing up and getting killed, it's not fear of blacking out from G-forces, it's not fear of getting shot down, it's the fear of screwing up.
Same as the #1 fear from TFA. (fear of writing buggy code / messing up)
The official Pilot's Prayer (as handed to us by Alan Shepard) is "Lord, please don't let me fuck up".
Not "Lord, please don't let me blow up" or "Please keep me safe"
This is also the Stage Manager prayer.
And I'm still up in the air about a PS4, and definitely not getting an Xbox One, so it's at least in contention. Ultimately it will come down to the games, like it always does. Nobody thought the DS could compare with the PSP, and then the games came out and everybody realized what was important.
He doesn't seem to get that no one accused Microsoft of collapsing as a company, but effectively coasting on previous success. And the thing about coasting, is that it means you had previously built up momentum. The fact that Microsoft kept making money just meant that they had built up a really strong market share. They just didn't do anything beyond what they already had.
It's called Bit.Trip Beat and it's great.
There's a difference between anti-intellectualism and anti-institutionalism.
Likewise. Dark Knight was good, but overlong, with too many unnecessary bits, and too much pretension. Iron Man was a more cohesive experience.
None of this says that you're a good programmer, it just says that you're a good marketer.
I enjoyed Travian until I discovered it's possible to completely paralyze someone by destroying their farms, so that it's completely impossible for them to take any actions or recover at all. Then you just become a mining/logging subsidiary of whoever is nearby.
A statement that somehow the message of art 'degrades' as it reaches more people is something I assumed to hear from some art snob complaining about reproductions of the Mona Lisa, not about a video game starring Mario. The whole notion is insanely elitist, and I'm frankly flabbergasted that someone saw fit to print it.
Especially considering that they got the whole idea wrong - it's only a demo mode that shows you how to beat a section. In order to progress through the game, you still have to play it yourself!
If Rockstar managed to release San Andreas on the Playstation 2, a piece of hardware which was inferior to the gamecube, let alone the Wii, then I somehow doubt it's impossible to release an open world style game on the Wii. This basically just sounds like they don't really know what they're doing, and are wasting processor cycles on things they really don't need.
Linux on the desktop is dead. Long live Linux on the desktop.
It's because all the linux geeks waste their time on stupid shit instead of actual useful things.
That money was only in the hands of a fairly small amount of plantation owners, though. The large majority of residents were poor white farmers.
Kindling is the word you're thinking of. Kindle is the verb, of starting a flame, or an emotion. Which seems fairly appropriate.
The thing that confuses me the most about this paper is his hatred for using anthropomorphic metaphors to describe the functioning of a program. It confuses me partly because his examples of why it's bad don't seem to actually address his complaint, or anything like it. But also, because the more I think about it, they seem to fit very well.
Program components may not be living things, but they do run autonomously. They perform actions, frequently without any input from me. They seem to do things and interact with other components on their own - why not describe it as such? There's also the fact that he doesn't give any alternate way of describing what's going on inside a program.
It's the equivalent of a biology class detailing the possibilities of life, by examining chemical interactions, without actually examining any actual living organisms.
even considering the subject matter. It covers that wikipedia is wiki + encyclopedia, but offers nothing on how wikis got their name (a hawaiian bus system), it just says that android was made by a company named Android, and says that OSX is the 10th mac os, without even bothering to look into the cat names at all. The only one with an actual interesting answer was Red Hat.
Why didn't anyone just ask him?
Other than the entirely optional long summons, which of these hasn't been true for any Final Fantasy?
Nice sentiment, but sadly, the upper class already has the power. I'm sorry, but a poor working man who is wrongly accused of murder has little chance of finding a lawyer who will get him off, whereas... well, OJ Simpson. An immigrant family-owned business has no real legal discourse if the large real estate conglomerate that leases the storefront of the business decides to screw over the family.
Well, you're right, other than that these issues don't have much to do with the existence or non-existence of lawyers. Celebrities almost always get treated more leniently, and large corporations and conglomerates can usually find ways to screw over small business.
However, the upper classes having more power than the lower classes isn't new, nor did I say it wasn't the case. I said that eliminating lawyers would give the upper classes MORE power, even more than they already have.
Having a lawyer on your side is a good equalizer, even if the other side has a more expensive one. It's still better than no lawyer at all.
If you removed all lawyers and let all parties argue their own cases, you'd immediately see a drastic shift in power to the upper class and more educated, who would actually know the law, and have time to study and interpret it. The reason we have lawyers is so that EVERYONE has an expert on the law on their side. Also there'd be a shift in power towards prosecution, since the state pretty much by definition has to have a lawyer, or at least one person who puts forward cases against a multitude of defendants.
It was set up and running by a friend of mine, before gleemax even launched. It's the same kind of blog/wiki/forum for gamers, except for it's meant for all kinds of games, and it's actually a good useful site.
It's the latest Joker flick, Batman is just a secondary character.
You're converting a simple multiplication problem into an algebra problem, and a decently complex one if you were to write it out. While this may be fine for adults with a good grasp of algebra and equation manipulation, we're talking about children. I personally learned algebra in about 7th grade, and the times tables in 3rd. While memorization isn't the optimal solution for all cases, it's definitely a good and necessary stepping stone towards the best way.
Google used reams of data to get good at advertising and marketing, so Wired is using this ability to predict the end of SCIENCE?
Do they not realize the difference between these things? Advertising is extremely hand wavy and vague in the best of circumstances - I would argue that Google's offerings aren't really better than any other method, they're just cheaper for advertisers, and have a much larger base than normal.
I'm honestly astounded at this.