Yet there were other abstract things hidden in that work of art, I can think of a respect for the Golden Ratio and an implied dodecahedron, but I'm sure there were others. A work of a master craftsman like Da Vinci shouldn't have Occams Razor applied, for it is not simplistic in nature but harbours deeper meaning.
I find the tag accurate. When Nokia releases a smartphone, I expect a story or two. Apple does the same, and we're flooded with endless boring stories every time they twitch. Apple has a great sense of style and interesting products, but the endless shallow drivel passed off as news gets boring.
For a different tradeoff, roller blades and skateboards make fun, rapid, highly portable transportation that requires little cost and maintenance, but does require paved surfaces. Cycling is also good in this respect, though a bike isn't as easy to carry around and usually requires secure lockup facilities. Hitching lifts has gone out of style, but it is still something easy to arrange with friends and coworkers. Even frequent taxi usage can cost far less than car hire or ownership. Swimming is great exercise and large goods such as a king size bed can be floated on pontoons for easy shipping. Rappelling is a cheap and affordable method of descending cliffs. Hang gliding also works, as does transcendental levitation. Lastly, you could get a Segway but you're not quite that desperate to look like a fool.
Sure, that's easy to assume, but you are dead wrong. They tailored their OS for Nigerians specifically because of this contract. Additional to localisation they trialled them extensively, thus the reaction. MS just stepped in once the deal was done with a half hearted effort that has left the people on the ground wanting. They chose the superior OS for their needs.
It shouldn't be suprising that the folks who actually want to use them would want to keep the tried and tested localised Mandriva over the untested XP that costs more and would cripple the system. Hopefully they will all end up this way, but I don't blame them for accepting the MS bounty.
If, like me, you miss the oldschool BBS games, and want something that is more than just a five minute distraction but a persistent world, try Colony Wars or Legend of the Green Dragon. My fave flash game at the moment is Dicewars, a simplified risk style game. Enjoy!
You missed my point. The iPhone is a great gadget, hampered by Apples incompetence in delivering a closed black box that had to be unofficially cracked. Yes there's hope on the horizon. I said that. I'll let you know how they stand in my books when they officially open the phone to third party developers. So far incompetent is a nice term.
All his points stand. There is no native SDK, a pale imitation of GPS and no ability to be unlocked without voiding the warranty and bricking your phone every update. Until Apple supports at least an SDK (which they have promised, so there's hope on the horizon) it is more than fair to call Apple incompetent.
Not give them weapons? Bah, a robot has no need for weapons! I ask you, what self respecting robot can't crush a puny meatbags skull with it's bare hydraulic fist?
It sounds outlandish, but when MS and the DReaM team gang up, hideously nightmarish shit like tilt bits and encrypted fucking system busses are the result. I think you're right, but I see the MS lockin and DRM lockin monsters being vanquished by Global Benevolent Dictator Linus the week after he is appointed lord and emperor over all mankind. Unfortunately we will have to wait till 2038 for this, at which time a rebellious renegade decides to port an ancient operating system to a revolutionary closed source architecture and MS is reborn. So the cycle of the saga of the ages continues, waxing and waning in the aeons.
I'm not kidding, I have a luser with the exact same issue, refuses to say what OS/browser anything identifiable except Norton. I guess that in-your-face-worse-than-any-virus-known-to-mankind technology pays off in brand recognition.
Anyway, please, I'm begging you, how did you solve this? And I've unfortunately already ruled out homicide.
And that word is that today GR is the best theory of gravity we have.
Yet we have observations that don't fit the theory, both on the small and large scales. The theory is either incomplete, or our observations are incorrect. Seeing as we don't alter empirical data to fit theories, we must alter the theories to fit the empirical data. It is the best theory we have, and still it breaks, so we strive for a new theory to explain all the facts. MOND and string theory are two such theories that make real predictions and the 'knob twiddling' you refer to is the scientific process in action, rejecting hypotheses that don't fit the evidence and proposing new ones.
...they are a bunch of sharks circling information, just waiting for that first bit of blood that suggests a hole in some established theory.
Trying to poke holes in in established theories (also known as conducting experiments and analysing empirical data) is more properly called the scientific method. You make it sound like a bad thing, and that ivory tower guardians of cryptic scrolls are the true scientists. You have it all backwards. Theories shouldn't need propping up, they should stand on their own, and especially stand up to repeated scrutiny and analysis. If we failed to poke holes in established methodology there would be no Newton, no Einstein, no progress to speak of.
Plague hits a button on a remote control, and the virus - a long haired male model - appears on a large screen, in psychedelic colors. The virus speaks in a hammy Italian accent.
"Unless five million dollars are transferred to the following numbered account in seven days, I will capsize five tankers in the Ellingson fleet." -- "You wanted to know who I am, Zero Cool? Well let me explain the New World Order. Governments and corporations need people like you and me. We are samurai. The keyboard cowboys. And all those other people out there who have no idea what's going on are the cattle. Mooo! I need your help, you need my help. Let me help you earn your spurs. Ahh, think about it. Enjoy the laptop, "Cool"! Tell me where the disk is."
You're telling me a giant corporation didn't make an exception to their policies for you... well colour me shocked. Obviously you forgot to tell them how you were a unique and special snowflake, and that they must bend to your will because you were too impatient to get your replacement from them.
Indeed, in most ways it is better to present an alternate reality than attempting to emulate it. Realism can suck the life out of games, and imposes constraints not inherent in the medium. Something like Katamari Damacy shows what you can achieve by leaving reality behind. It is akin to a documentary vs. a dramatisation - even though the documentary strives for 100% accuracy a fictionalised dramatisation tells a better story and is more appealing and engrossing for most people.
Loosely speaking, 'loose' and 'lose' have lost status. Losers have loosened definitions. You are losing this lost battle so loose yourself now, unless you lose yourself further and lose your screws.
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Yet there were other abstract things hidden in that work of art, I can think of a respect for the Golden Ratio and an implied dodecahedron, but I'm sure there were others. A work of a master craftsman like Da Vinci shouldn't have Occams Razor applied, for it is not simplistic in nature but harbours deeper meaning.
You're right. If he just incorporated before this event, he could just dismiss himself with a sweet golden handshake to boot.
I find the tag accurate. When Nokia releases a smartphone, I expect a story or two. Apple does the same, and we're flooded with endless boring stories every time they twitch. Apple has a great sense of style and interesting products, but the endless shallow drivel passed off as news gets boring.
Cosby's been doing this for decades.
For a different tradeoff, roller blades and skateboards make fun, rapid, highly portable transportation that requires little cost and maintenance, but does require paved surfaces. Cycling is also good in this respect, though a bike isn't as easy to carry around and usually requires secure lockup facilities. Hitching lifts has gone out of style, but it is still something easy to arrange with friends and coworkers. Even frequent taxi usage can cost far less than car hire or ownership. Swimming is great exercise and large goods such as a king size bed can be floated on pontoons for easy shipping. Rappelling is a cheap and affordable method of descending cliffs. Hang gliding also works, as does transcendental levitation. Lastly, you could get a Segway but you're not quite that desperate to look like a fool.
Just get 1000 monkeys and 1000 numeric keypads. Where's my prize?
Sure, that's easy to assume, but you are dead wrong. They tailored their OS for Nigerians specifically because of this contract. Additional to localisation they trialled them extensively, thus the reaction. MS just stepped in once the deal was done with a half hearted effort that has left the people on the ground wanting. They chose the superior OS for their needs.
It shouldn't be suprising that the folks who actually want to use them would want to keep the tried and tested localised Mandriva over the untested XP that costs more and would cripple the system. Hopefully they will all end up this way, but I don't blame them for accepting the MS bounty.
If, like me, you miss the oldschool BBS games, and want something that is more than just a five minute distraction but a persistent world, try Colony Wars or Legend of the Green Dragon. My fave flash game at the moment is Dicewars, a simplified risk style game. Enjoy!
Computing has now passed the toddler Turing test. Seeing Skynet's been operational for quite a while now, it's about time the robots caught up.
You missed my point. The iPhone is a great gadget, hampered by Apples incompetence in delivering a closed black box that had to be unofficially cracked. Yes there's hope on the horizon. I said that. I'll let you know how they stand in my books when they officially open the phone to third party developers. So far incompetent is a nice term.
All his points stand. There is no native SDK, a pale imitation of GPS and no ability to be unlocked without voiding the warranty and bricking your phone every update. Until Apple supports at least an SDK (which they have promised, so there's hope on the horizon) it is more than fair to call Apple incompetent.
Not give them weapons? Bah, a robot has no need for weapons! I ask you, what self respecting robot can't crush a puny meatbags skull with it's bare hydraulic fist?
It sounds outlandish, but when MS and the DReaM team gang up, hideously nightmarish shit like tilt bits and encrypted fucking system busses are the result. I think you're right, but I see the MS lockin and DRM lockin monsters being vanquished by Global Benevolent Dictator Linus the week after he is appointed lord and emperor over all mankind. Unfortunately we will have to wait till 2038 for this, at which time a rebellious renegade decides to port an ancient operating system to a revolutionary closed source architecture and MS is reborn. So the cycle of the saga of the ages continues, waxing and waning in the aeons.
So it's not in mom's basement?
I'm not kidding, I have a luser with the exact same issue, refuses to say what OS/browser anything identifiable except Norton. I guess that in-your-face-worse-than-any-virus-known-to-mankind technology pays off in brand recognition.
Anyway, please, I'm begging you, how did you solve this? And I've unfortunately already ruled out homicide.
Yet we have observations that don't fit the theory, both on the small and large scales. The theory is either incomplete, or our observations are incorrect. Seeing as we don't alter empirical data to fit theories, we must alter the theories to fit the empirical data. It is the best theory we have, and still it breaks, so we strive for a new theory to explain all the facts. MOND and string theory are two such theories that make real predictions and the 'knob twiddling' you refer to is the scientific process in action, rejecting hypotheses that don't fit the evidence and proposing new ones.
...they are a bunch of sharks circling information, just waiting for that first bit of blood that suggests a hole in some established theory.Trying to poke holes in in established theories (also known as conducting experiments and analysing empirical data) is more properly called the scientific method. You make it sound like a bad thing, and that ivory tower guardians of cryptic scrolls are the true scientists. You have it all backwards. Theories shouldn't need propping up, they should stand on their own, and especially stand up to repeated scrutiny and analysis. If we failed to poke holes in established methodology there would be no Newton, no Einstein, no progress to speak of.
Plague hits a button on a remote control, and the virus - a long haired male model - appears on a large screen, in psychedelic colors. The virus speaks in a hammy Italian accent.
"Unless five million dollars are transferred to the following numbered account in seven days, I will capsize five tankers in the Ellingson fleet."
--
"You wanted to know who I am, Zero Cool? Well let me explain the New World Order. Governments and corporations need people like you and me. We are samurai. The keyboard cowboys. And all those other people out there who have no idea what's going on are the cattle. Mooo! I need your help, you need my help. Let me help you earn your spurs. Ahh, think about it. Enjoy the laptop, "Cool"! Tell me where the disk is."
I would go on, but my brain hurts.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of Lego - woah, that was damn easy to imagine.
Digg?
You're telling me a giant corporation didn't make an exception to their policies for you... well colour me shocked. Obviously you forgot to tell them how you were a unique and special snowflake, and that they must bend to your will because you were too impatient to get your replacement from them.
Indeed, in most ways it is better to present an alternate reality than attempting to emulate it. Realism can suck the life out of games, and imposes constraints not inherent in the medium. Something like Katamari Damacy shows what you can achieve by leaving reality behind. It is akin to a documentary vs. a dramatisation - even though the documentary strives for 100% accuracy a fictionalised dramatisation tells a better story and is more appealing and engrossing for most people.
I share your sentiments, and just hope he gets to argue with his Bar Association a fair bit too.
Loosely speaking, 'loose' and 'lose' have lost status. Losers have loosened definitions. You are losing this lost battle so loose yourself now, unless you lose yourself further and lose your screws.