Recent content by Mickey93

Ilsab, I've heard grumblings from within the video game industry that there is not always good money to be made. One person said that there are video game development sweatshops in countries such as India where overworked employees are paid less than taxi drivers despite the fact that they have...

Bystander, I read that thread and it looks like what's on that shell is not a writing system. In fact, I think the researchers themselves say it's not even proto-writing. They seem to be saying it's abstract decoration. Evo and Vanadium: I pepper my writing with occasional slang, odd word...

Stephen, They found a few things: 1) Inaccurate copying of signs, where the signs were increasingly more ambiguous or became incomplete or corrupted by elements of other signs. 2) Comparing the same types of inscriptions in different periods (such as temple dedications engraved centuries...

I remember reading another article about an aquatic organism that has never been directly observed, let alone had someone collect a specimen of it. All they've found is burrows that analysis shows must have been created by something alive rather than non-biological processes. So, yeah, the deep...

I'm just sending out a general call for people who have an interest in the study of writing systems and some knowledge on the subject. Linguists, anthropologists, sociologists (and even philologists if those still exist) are especially invited to reply. As a pump primer, I read the abstract of...

I didn't express myself very well. The way I described those two factors was as they exist in extremely oversaturated fields, such as the entertainment industries. In a field that is not saturated, technical competence does matter; and even in mildly oversaturated fields, there is a possibility...

Thanks for that explanation. I had a feeling it was a bad idea.

I hope this isn't deleted for "personal theory" reasons because it's really just a discussion point. I just have to give two paragraphs of preamble before getting to the point. To me, an oversaturated field is one in which there are too many qualified people for the number of quality jobs...

I've got this vague idea for a kernel-free OS that consists of an interrupt handler, a memory manager, a hardware prober and some other utilities. The hardware prober would be used to modify application source code upon install in order to configure the applications to access that specific...

Jim, What I find noteworthy is that the same field researchers were unable to find any other specimens on their return to the site. The Wikipedia article doesn't say how many times they returned in the past 28 years, but the fact that it has been 28 years suggests they must have tried multiple...

Could people with expertise in the relevant field(s) please tell me what you think of the contents of the following article, with a focus on the suggestion that it could lead us to redraw the web of life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrogramma Many thanks for all replies.