There is a lot of talk about repetitiveness, but as I was thinking about funny games the WarioWare series came to mind.
It's repetitive and you're doing the same type of stuff over and over, but it's still a very amusing game. And it does have a lot of humor in there and even some laugh out loud moments.
No. But I'd be even LESS surprised if the vulnerability simply gave money to of George Bush's bank account.
Go ahead and mod me "troll," but the only reason Diebold didn't "deliver" the election to George Bush is because they weren't organized and/or smart enough to do it. They had every opportunity.
So clearly there someone should invent the "automated teller machine machine machine," the machine that automatically builds the machine that automatically builds the ATM.
The inventor would make a bundle.. at least until some invented the "automated teller machine machine machine machine."!
I think IE6 is more evil for this reason: it pulled a significant part of the web away from being software/OS agnostic and made Windows a requirement. Like Windows or not this has made the web *significantly* less universal and has slowed it down. The web is still a powerful force, but if web pages (and web aps) would actually run anywhere, it would be *even more* significant to our day to day computing than it is now.
IE8 proves the point... Microsoft really tries to comply with standards and everything breaks. IE6 and non-compliance with standards is going to be a significant negative chapter in Microsoft history and we'll still be feeling the effects a decade from now at least.
Um no... this was always in the "Pickens Plan." Wind is only one half of it. Moving vehicles over to natural gas (it's the only energy he thinks could displace oil in vehicles in a relatively short amount of time) is the second half.
You could have a good argument over your comment about whether he is overly optimistic about our supplies of natural gas though.
The people whining about about wind farms are usually the ones that are getting $10k a turbine for using a sliver of their land.
Just shut up already. We Americans are all about the common good these days as long someone else is shouldering the load. Plus they get a healthy pay check for each windmill... much more than the yield of the land used if they are farmers. Still they bitch and moan.
Don't forget the complaints about the "woosh woosh woosh" sounds. I complain about that too, but I'm taking about the sound of the wind going through these whiner's ears.
THIS is why we need to go to the Moon and Mars and beyond... it is only through pushing through the boundaries to the unknown that we advance as a species. Otherwise, all we do is sit in self-induced stagnation endlessly trying to perfect ourselves.
I agree, but this is going to be the tough sell over the next 30 years. I know where I work I am drowning a deluge of people who never crack a book, have no curiosity beyond what will happen on the next American Idol, and have no deep thoughts about anything.
Vonnegut (and many others) seem to be right and we seem to be devolving. Endeavours in space and science is how we move forward, but there are less and less people that are interested in anything beyond where they are going to eat tonight. Fighting shallow mindedness is the REAL struggle.
It looks like they need to cut down their "Information Dissemination Time" with their webmasters as well... I wonder how long it will take before they pull this piece their "success" with LSE.
> These days, if they didn't make their money in the first five years, any given work is nearly dead -- especially movies.
No... not really. This was the feeling during the studio system of Hollywood. It's not really true today. There are many titles (and not all ones you'd think of like Star Wars) that are making money years and years down the road. As a matter of fact, if I remember by college film studies correctly... there are very few titles that done *eventually* make their money back. In the U.S. we tend to focus on domestic money made at the theaters, but movies are sold to Broadcast TV, Cable TV, International markets of all sorts, Airlines, Cruise Ships, DVD sales, online sales... the list goes on and on. Also.. don't forget all the movies that finally broke even when they ended up on TV shows like MST3k! All this goes on for years and years and years.
I think copyright has to accommodate this somewhat. However I agree with the parent's point... they are not falling into Public Domain at all these days and that should be corrected.
There is no good implementation of DRM and there never will be. There can't be when you assume that EVERY customer is out to rip you off and you wish to enforce it on everyone, some of which are (or maybe were now) loyal customers. The irresponsibility that is being shown in these examples are just the topping on the cake... but it sure gives your a look inside their psyche. Their point of view is "we're big, we don't have to follow the rules and play fair... but you MUST follow our rules or we take our ball home."
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
I wish people would actually read the constitution.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," : not to promote the interests of monied pockets of power.
"securing limited Time to Authors and Inventors," : limited time (we've gone over this time and time again), but *Authors* and *Inventors*
The people that wrote the constitution were damn smart people. Too bad we stopped listening. Copyright is supposed to benefit all of us so of course a limited copyright span that balances the rights of *Authors* (not Corporations) vs. the public is the best. Here's to another study that didn't need to be done.
how about hitting the programming team at Comedy Central?
They still deserve several dozen whacks to the back of the head for cancellation of MST3k to put on dreck like Craig Kilborn's version of The Daily Show.
While I agree with the rest of this statement, the crap like "it is a requirement of a corporation to maximize the shareholders...." blah blah blah need to be RETIRED. Repeating this corporate dogma garbage just strengthens the hand of blowhards like Ballmer.
It is NOT HAPPENING in the U.S... it's all about doing what's best for the corporate elite at the very top. Even if you accept the "corporations work for the betterment of the shareholders" argument for a second you then need to take into account that the biggest shareholders by far are the Board members and CEOs at the top anyway and they are STILL just working in their own best interest.
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There is a lot of talk about repetitiveness, but as I was thinking about funny games the WarioWare series came to mind.
It's repetitive and you're doing the same type of stuff over and over, but it's still a very amusing game. And it does have a lot of humor in there and even some laugh out loud moments.
No. But I'd be even LESS surprised if the vulnerability simply gave money to of George Bush's bank account.
Go ahead and mod me "troll," but the only reason Diebold didn't "deliver" the election to George Bush is because they weren't organized and/or smart enough to do it. They had every opportunity.
So clearly there someone should invent the "automated teller machine machine machine," the machine that automatically builds the machine that automatically builds the ATM.
The inventor would make a bundle.. at least until some invented the "automated teller machine machine machine machine."!
Cowboy Bebop Episode 19
Space Shuttle Columbia rescues the Spike. Outrageously unrealistic but fun to think a hobbyist could actually get and fly one in the future...
I think IE6 is more evil for this reason: it pulled a significant part of the web away from being software/OS agnostic and made Windows a requirement. Like Windows or not this has made the web *significantly* less universal and has slowed it down. The web is still a powerful force, but if web pages (and web aps) would actually run anywhere, it would be *even more* significant to our day to day computing than it is now.
IE8 proves the point... Microsoft really tries to comply with standards and everything breaks. IE6 and non-compliance with standards is going to be a significant negative chapter in Microsoft history and we'll still be feeling the effects a decade from now at least.
When was the last time you rounded a corner and stepped right in a pile of biohazard or disease outbreak?
Doesn't this happen in Phillip K Dick novels a lot?
Um no... this was always in the "Pickens Plan." Wind is only one half of it. Moving vehicles over to natural gas (it's the only energy he thinks could displace oil in vehicles in a relatively short amount of time) is the second half.
You could have a good argument over your comment about whether he is overly optimistic about our supplies of natural gas though.
The people whining about about wind farms are usually the ones that are getting $10k a turbine for using a sliver of their land.
Just shut up already. We Americans are all about the common good these days as long someone else is shouldering the load. Plus they get a healthy pay check for each windmill... much more than the yield of the land used if they are farmers. Still they bitch and moan.
Don't forget the complaints about the "woosh woosh woosh" sounds. I complain about that too, but I'm taking about the sound of the wind going through these whiner's ears.
CNN is reporting the project is "On hold" not "scrapped". They also reports the wind equipment that has been bought is going to be used.
There is a big difference between "On Hold" and "Scrapped".
Violence to further corporate interests: Double-super-sure.
Thanks Dick Cheney! This is his true legacy.
Do what's best for the corporation... or we'll throw your ass in jail.
What a joke...
THIS is why we need to go to the Moon and Mars and beyond... it is only through pushing through the boundaries to the unknown that we advance as a species. Otherwise, all we do is sit in self-induced stagnation endlessly trying to perfect ourselves.
I agree, but this is going to be the tough sell over the next 30 years. I know where I work I am drowning a deluge of people who never crack a book, have no curiosity beyond what will happen on the next American Idol, and have no deep thoughts about anything.
Vonnegut (and many others) seem to be right and we seem to be devolving. Endeavours in space and science is how we move forward, but there are less and less people that are interested in anything beyond where they are going to eat tonight. Fighting shallow mindedness is the REAL struggle.
...and they're bragging about it in a case study.
It looks like they need to cut down their "Information Dissemination Time" with their webmasters as well... I wonder how long it will take before they pull this piece their "success" with LSE.
> These days, if they didn't make their money in the first five years, any given work is nearly dead -- especially movies.
No... not really. This was the feeling during the studio system of Hollywood. It's not really true today. There are many titles (and not all ones you'd think of like Star Wars) that are making money years and years down the road. As a matter of fact, if I remember by college film studies correctly... there are very few titles that done *eventually* make their money back. In the U.S. we tend to focus on domestic money made at the theaters, but movies are sold to Broadcast TV, Cable TV, International markets of all sorts, Airlines, Cruise Ships, DVD sales, online sales... the list goes on and on. Also.. don't forget all the movies that finally broke even when they ended up on TV shows like MST3k! All this goes on for years and years and years.
I think copyright has to accommodate this somewhat. However I agree with the parent's point... they are not falling into Public Domain at all these days and that should be corrected.
> DRM is a bad idea, poorly implemented.
Should be DRM is a bad idea [FULL STOP].
There is no good implementation of DRM and there never will be. There can't be when you assume that EVERY customer is out to rip you off and you wish to enforce it on everyone, some of which are (or maybe were now) loyal customers. The irresponsibility that is being shown in these examples are just the topping on the cake... but it sure gives your a look inside their psyche. Their point of view is "we're big, we don't have to follow the rules and play fair... but you MUST follow our rules or we take our ball home."
It's just pineing for the fjords!!
Came to find the Valeyard reference... ...and I found it.
Thank you very much.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
I wish people would actually read the constitution.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," : not to promote the interests of monied pockets of power.
"securing limited Time to Authors and Inventors," : limited time (we've gone over this time and time again), but *Authors* and *Inventors*
The people that wrote the constitution were damn smart people. Too bad we stopped listening. Copyright is supposed to benefit all of us so of course a limited copyright span that balances the rights of *Authors* (not Corporations) vs. the public is the best. Here's to another study that didn't need to be done.
even God is hooked on watching CSI!
how about hitting the programming team at Comedy Central?
They still deserve several dozen whacks to the back of the head for cancellation of MST3k to put on dreck like Craig Kilborn's version of The Daily Show.
doesn't it involve hand signals and someone playing a really loud organ?
screw that... what about Windows ME? My boss refuses to upgrade he OS but I'm sure he'll be buying a Pre any day now and expecting a perfect sync.
So, basically you're saying the system is broken?
While I agree with the rest of this statement, the crap like "it is a requirement of a corporation to maximize the shareholders...." blah blah blah need to be RETIRED. Repeating this corporate dogma garbage just strengthens the hand of blowhards like Ballmer.
It is NOT HAPPENING in the U.S... it's all about doing what's best for the corporate elite at the very top. Even if you accept the "corporations work for the betterment of the shareholders" argument for a second you then need to take into account that the biggest shareholders by far are the Board members and CEOs at the top anyway and they are STILL just working in their own best interest.
Damn you. I wanted to watch Rebecca Romijn with a scar across her eye...