Oh great, Yahoo is doing it. That means I bet they won't be able to resist adding some ads into the "transmission" that they're sending, and I use that word loosely. You never know if those aliens want to meet sexy singles.
Archaeologists say a culture centred in Teotihuacan, known as the City of the Gods, dominated Mesoamerica for hundreds of years during the first millennium. It is unclear what led to the society's collapse.
hmmm, maybe they built a giant laser and beamed annoying ads into space so aliens came and obliterated everyone.
sorry but Dance Dance Revolution came first and beats this idea by far. Haven't we all seen the before and after miracle DDR exercise plan pics all over the internet?
In case you didn't notice, Ipods die all the time. My friend that worked at Best Buy said there wasn't a single day that went by that 4-7 of them didn't get returned or brought in for RMAs because they broke. How can a product that breaks so much be so popular?! I hope they die for good soon.
oh trust me, they'll make up for the 10% and then some. Last I heard, if U add up all the supposed Nielsen stats for certain given times such as primetime television it adds up to way more people than even live in the US. Everyone adds on a little to make it look like more ppl are watching so they can get more money from advertising. And just think how much better TV would be if they used that time and effort to think of something more creative than 25 year old "teenagers" bitching at each other about how dramatic their life is and big city single women bitching about everything and acting like big stereotype machines.
I love Starcraft. I played it for several years and had about a 650-40 record and all I got was a bunch of people pissed off at a LAN party:( Btw I'm bringing it back for an upcoming LAN party at my college that I'm in charge of, lol. But I have to mention that more than 75% of people when I last played used a map hack to reveal the location of everyone on the map (me included) and almost all asian players racked up a huge record with dummy accounts and with cheating like rushing in a no rush game. I wonder how cheap these guys play in tournaments where people are actually watching and they can't use hacks.
I think Sony has done such a good job at ruining their image that no single person could help them. But my vote goes towards them needing a Steve Ballmer:-P
In case you're one of those people that claims to not mind in game advertising, you have to think about the natural course of evolution for it. Anyone can write an always on top program that's just a big rectangle that covers annoying, distracting ad banners or hack a game so advertising skins don't load on 3D objects but picture this: you log on to WoW and start walking around and suddenly a strange looking character runs up to you with a Radio Shack logo on him saying "Can I help you find something?!" and then following you around until you log out. Yeah...you're against in game advertising now aren't ya?
speaking of projects, we could create a bunch of giant explosions that spell out something. That would definitely get aliens' attention. Kinda makes you wonder why we haven't spotted any supernovas all going off at once in the shape of an alien smiley face, lol.
I think the best way to contact aliens and let them know we are here is to build a giant billboard about 10x bigger than the sun that says "Hey aliens, people live here" and park it right outside out solar system. That way when they're looking at us with their giant telescopes, they'd see it and know. I'm sure we could get pepsi to sponsor that billboard, they sponsor anything.
As for us seeing other intelligent life, just watch for planets to spontaniously blow themselves up. I'm sure we'll almost do that a few times in the future looking at the past so logically some aliens have to do it.
there have been a lot of stories posted on slashdot about invisible cloaks and cloaked vehicles and personal cloaks and all that. How many times are we going to hear about invisible vehicles before we start seeing them flying/driving around every day? Oh wait... well at least this time they claim it actually is built and works
okay, what about high schoolers that are bloggers? Technically they ruin the test because it's no longer a 1:1 comparison. Plus, it's not really fair unless you test high schoolers from everywhere in the US. One of my teachers pointed out one time that certain parts of the country are better and worse at different subjects. And then there's the whole who cares about grammar as long as you accurately get the point accross thing.
consider how hard it is for the inhouse tech people to talk to non-IT people and have it make sense in english. I thought I was good at it until I realized just how many tech terms most people don't know, lol. When you add in the translation to another language first and almost no IT staff at the US company, you're pretty much garaunteed to have some massive problems with the final product whether it be hardware or software. That's why it's either inhouse or outhouse:D
because we trade billions with them? Well, more like buy than trade. Plus, a big laser beam from the ground blinding a satellite stands out a bit. It'd be a really, really easy target for just about any long range weapon we have; just look for the end of the big laser beam (or fly a helicopter with a mirror on the bottom over it or put a large magnet a foot out from the satellite's lense cuz I think that bends the light, or fire flack cannons over it or just dump flour out of a plane above it, or hit the local power plant, or EMP the area) Not such a scary weapon now, lol
It's really no surprise that "Release it when it works" works better than "release it by ____ and we'll patch it later." Patches were originally intended to update the program with new features or to make it compatabile with no technology, not to fix things that should have been ironed out during development. Most software companied have just become lazy and decided they want more money faster even if their product sucks.
It's a heck of a lot harder to cheat in IT degrees. You either know how to fix a computer, hook up a network, or write a program or you don't and since most of it is hands on, it's pretty hard to cheat on anything actually worth decent points. Plus, us IT people are smart so we don't need to cheat:D lol
oh sweet, then perhaps you could explain the phrase "to change the law to allow paper ballots" Since when did the law in your state say paper ballots were no longer allowed. You'd think that change would have made it on slashdot when it happened because it's pretty outrageous.
P.S. you're right, one of these days people are going to catch on and elect a third party or independant candidate
anyone can play a game, get scammed or fragged because of lagging, then go write a review saying it's the worst game in the history of gaming. I like the other type of review that nuetrally describes how the game works, its features, its performance (glitches and speed), and any major problems with it. Reading any other type of review that's completely opinionated one way or another just doesn't tell the full story. However, nothing beats game demos.
if Nasar, her co-author, and the New Yorker fail to undo the damage done.
so all they have to do is write an apology article or put a picture of him in saying he's the best and no money for him. Is he just doing this for publicity or what?
well now I guess we have one more problem to worry about: supernova obeisity. Let's strap Richard Simmons and that tae bo guy to a rocket and send them on over to get it back down to normal, exceptable size.
Hmmm if you don't turn in your report on time, you're suspended:P where have I heard that sort of policy before? Geeze, I thought they get most of their people from Harvard and stuff.
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hmmm, maybe they built a giant laser and beamed annoying ads into space so aliens came and obliterated everyone.
sorry but Dance Dance Revolution came first and beats this idea by far. Haven't we all seen the before and after miracle DDR exercise plan pics all over the internet?
In case you didn't notice, Ipods die all the time. My friend that worked at Best Buy said there wasn't a single day that went by that 4-7 of them didn't get returned or brought in for RMAs because they broke. How can a product that breaks so much be so popular?! I hope they die for good soon.
oh trust me, they'll make up for the 10% and then some. Last I heard, if U add up all the supposed Nielsen stats for certain given times such as primetime television it adds up to way more people than even live in the US. Everyone adds on a little to make it look like more ppl are watching so they can get more money from advertising. And just think how much better TV would be if they used that time and effort to think of something more creative than 25 year old "teenagers" bitching at each other about how dramatic their life is and big city single women bitching about everything and acting like big stereotype machines.
I love Starcraft. I played it for several years and had about a 650-40 record and all I got was a bunch of people pissed off at a LAN party :( Btw I'm bringing it back for an upcoming LAN party at my college that I'm in charge of, lol. But I have to mention that more than 75% of people when I last played used a map hack to reveal the location of everyone on the map (me included) and almost all asian players racked up a huge record with dummy accounts and with cheating like rushing in a no rush game. I wonder how cheap these guys play in tournaments where people are actually watching and they can't use hacks.
I think Sony has done such a good job at ruining their image that no single person could help them. But my vote goes towards them needing a Steve Ballmer :-P
In case you're one of those people that claims to not mind in game advertising, you have to think about the natural course of evolution for it. Anyone can write an always on top program that's just a big rectangle that covers annoying, distracting ad banners or hack a game so advertising skins don't load on 3D objects but picture this: you log on to WoW and start walking around and suddenly a strange looking character runs up to you with a Radio Shack logo on him saying "Can I help you find something?!" and then following you around until you log out. Yeah...you're against in game advertising now aren't ya?
speaking of projects, we could create a bunch of giant explosions that spell out something. That would definitely get aliens' attention. Kinda makes you wonder why we haven't spotted any supernovas all going off at once in the shape of an alien smiley face, lol.
I think the best way to contact aliens and let them know we are here is to build a giant billboard about 10x bigger than the sun that says "Hey aliens, people live here" and park it right outside out solar system. That way when they're looking at us with their giant telescopes, they'd see it and know. I'm sure we could get pepsi to sponsor that billboard, they sponsor anything. As for us seeing other intelligent life, just watch for planets to spontaniously blow themselves up. I'm sure we'll almost do that a few times in the future looking at the past so logically some aliens have to do it.
no, you'd turn into one of the borg, a cyborg race of zombie-like drones that try to push DRM on people
In other news, Bob Barker is still hosting the Price is Right at the old age of 124 years old :-P
If I was behind a Microsoft firewall, I'd just feel insecure ;)
there have been a lot of stories posted on slashdot about invisible cloaks and cloaked vehicles and personal cloaks and all that. How many times are we going to hear about invisible vehicles before we start seeing them flying/driving around every day? Oh wait...
well at least this time they claim it actually is built and works
okay, what about high schoolers that are bloggers? Technically they ruin the test because it's no longer a 1:1 comparison. Plus, it's not really fair unless you test high schoolers from everywhere in the US. One of my teachers pointed out one time that certain parts of the country are better and worse at different subjects. And then there's the whole who cares about grammar as long as you accurately get the point accross thing.
consider how hard it is for the inhouse tech people to talk to non-IT people and have it make sense in english. I thought I was good at it until I realized just how many tech terms most people don't know, lol. When you add in the translation to another language first and almost no IT staff at the US company, you're pretty much garaunteed to have some massive problems with the final product whether it be hardware or software. That's why it's either inhouse or outhouse :D
now all they need to do is create an Emergency Medical Hologram and they're all set
Obviously China fired a laser beam at it and it fried (see story a couple articles up :-P)
because we trade billions with them? Well, more like buy than trade. Plus, a big laser beam from the ground blinding a satellite stands out a bit. It'd be a really, really easy target for just about any long range weapon we have; just look for the end of the big laser beam (or fly a helicopter with a mirror on the bottom over it or put a large magnet a foot out from the satellite's lense cuz I think that bends the light, or fire flack cannons over it or just dump flour out of a plane above it, or hit the local power plant, or EMP the area) Not such a scary weapon now, lol
It's really no surprise that "Release it when it works" works better than "release it by ____ and we'll patch it later." Patches were originally intended to update the program with new features or to make it compatabile with no technology, not to fix things that should have been ironed out during development. Most software companied have just become lazy and decided they want more money faster even if their product sucks.
It's a heck of a lot harder to cheat in IT degrees. You either know how to fix a computer, hook up a network, or write a program or you don't and since most of it is hands on, it's pretty hard to cheat on anything actually worth decent points. Plus, us IT people are smart so we don't need to cheat :D lol
oh sweet, then perhaps you could explain the phrase "to change the law to allow paper ballots" Since when did the law in your state say paper ballots were no longer allowed. You'd think that change would have made it on slashdot when it happened because it's pretty outrageous.
P.S. you're right, one of these days people are going to catch on and elect a third party or independant candidate
anyone can play a game, get scammed or fragged because of lagging, then go write a review saying it's the worst game in the history of gaming. I like the other type of review that nuetrally describes how the game works, its features, its performance (glitches and speed), and any major problems with it. Reading any other type of review that's completely opinionated one way or another just doesn't tell the full story. However, nothing beats game demos.
so all they have to do is write an apology article or put a picture of him in saying he's the best and no money for him. Is he just doing this for publicity or what?
well now I guess we have one more problem to worry about: supernova obeisity. Let's strap Richard Simmons and that tae bo guy to a rocket and send them on over to get it back down to normal, exceptable size.
Hmmm if you don't turn in your report on time, you're suspended :P where have I heard that sort of policy before? Geeze, I thought they get most of their people from Harvard and stuff.