My wife bought Muppets Party Cruise. While technically a franchise game, it is a good franchise game. It's played like a giant boardgame, and you players open doors into about 25 or so mini-games.
The mini-games are actually quite good. You have everything from Bingo to a first-person shooter (well slingshot and paintball.) I like it because it's something we BOTH like to play. Besides, chicks dig muppets.
I'm a big fan of completely blocking out the major new outlets and simply investigating matters on my own. I take a mental highlighter to the actual facts as stated in an article, and disregard the interpretation.
I have discovered there are very few people actually collecting news. In many cases I boil a dozen or so stories down to a single quote from the same source, or even funnier, one reporter's misinterpretation of another reporter's work. My favorite is when an american reporter writes that "the bomb was detonated from approx 330 feet away." They ripped of someone else's estimate of "about 100 meters."
You are correct though, anyone who takes what they see or hear at face value is a fool. Regardless of the source.
Actually you can use topic maps to decompose a body of work into individual statements and then use a set or randomly generated "flavors" to re-constitute the facts into an original work. The rules about what goes where are pretty cut and dry.
More stuff to help people avoid shitwork, only for humanity to discover our purpose in life IS to do shitwork.
That's not news. We know it already. The Fox audience is too dumb to remember anything. This is why they have to keep drilling the party line into their heads.
I think someone just wanted Journalists to know what it feels like to be a tech in this day and age. What they can't get a computer or a trained chimp to do, they will find some guy in another country who will do it cheaper.
We know we will be in trouble when every commentary article begines with "I am thinking that..."
There are reporters? Crap, every other article in my local fishwrap is Rueters, the other half is AP. There are one or two articles for local color, generally homicides or documenting yet more ways our local government is a) corrupt, b) inept, and/or c) playing partisen politics with/against the state goverment.
By the time it's printed in the "News" its usually pretty old.
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Cog 258118 seems out of alignment today. Put in a workorder for a fresh flashing of his firmware.
But seriously...
Let's face it this is the same mindless decision making process that turned sexy into a bunch of anorexic bubbleheads running in swimsuits and music into the uninspired crap typified by the Backstreet Boys and Brittney Spears.
For whatever reason they don't seem to want to cater to anyone with an IQ greater than 90, and certainly no one older than 14.
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Except of course that there is no guarentee that the source is in a finished state. What if the company takes the big walk in the middle of a project? What if the company says that the project has met all requirements, yet the code is useless for the intended purpose.
These are very real possibilities. They are also common outcomes in IT projects of years past. A source escro is mostly an agreement between a finished software vendor and a client. Between a company and a sub-contractor it's simply CYA. (And not a very good form at that.)
You can't go wrong with a love story. Even if you tell the same story 1,000,000 times you can at least change the props and actors around.
Frankly, I love the Matrix. But I hate the indiscriminate shooting of Police officers. Hollywood relies WAY too much on the concept of a gun as power. Sure there's martial arts, and devious plots and such, but when the director really wants your attention he has the character whip out a side arm.
You have to figure that many people in the developing world have lived under the thread of being shot. Guns and violence are a little to close to home.
One quick point. America was a bright spot in the world's economy for 50 years because of one reason: the rest of the world was bombed flat during WWII.
We weren't all that marvelous. We were simply out of bomber range.
Considering they are simply going to cherry pick the positive comments and dredge the bottom for the stupidist flaming zealot I think we have about as much chance of being heard as a Temperance protestor at the Octoberfest.
Because I belong to a cult that believes that information should be free (in both cost and free of use restrictions.) This cult also believes in returning derived works back to the collective, so that the movement can continue to grow.
We also worship caffiene and you have done bad things to Java.
Amen to that. I for one think there should be more projects like the "Big Dig." The money goes to creating well paying jobs. The cities where the work is done is improved.
Check out the website, they even had archaelogists on the project. It sure beats the 87 billion we just dropped in the middle east with no hope of seeing again.
Now you want to talk about wastes of money. Philadelphia just built 2 new stadiums for about 1.2 billion dollars. I wouldn't mind, save they the schools are chronically short funded, the new stadiums have half the seats of the old stadium, and nosebleeds cost $60. No one around here can afford that on a regular basis.
Bitch all you want about Boston wasting your money. You got infrastructure out of the deal. All we got was a stay of execution until the next time our sports teams want to play hardball. Damn it, and we had just paid off Veteren's Stadium...
As a student of Taoism, with a particular interest in the Art of War, I can say that Sun Tsu never stated that you will beat a larger foe with a smaller army. That's some fluff from Colenel Santiago in Alpha Centari.
Another pertinant quote from the Art of War itself, in Chapter III (Attack by Strategim):
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regimen t, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Better to have the state tag them with something indelible and obvious. Not only would they never be put in a position of trust again, people would be able to read the content of their character from across the room.
All the more reason to stop blaming the victim. I love how authorities seem to think that handing out assinine advice is better than actually prosecuting these cretans.
If jail space is the issue, stop locking up drug offenders and/or bring back corporal punishment. A nice "IDENTITY THIEF" brand on the forehead would be a good start. Perhaps reversed so they can read it for themselves in the mirror every day. My other thought is a tattoo on the fingers, one ring for each guilty conviction. Heck, I'd even chip in for some local for the schmucks, because they are going to have hell getting the time of day from anyone in the street.
You can't shred a classified document. It has to be "declassified" and then you can destroy it. My mom used to do it as a summer job for the Navy. Basically you stamp it "declassified" with a rubber stamp first. (Of course after the proper parties sacrificing the appropriate number and quality of chickens.)
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We used to measure success in decades. Now it's measured in quarters. But that's not the real issue.
I would argue that no leader of these large corporations is successful. No matter how large the company grows, the feel the need to make it bigger and bigger and bigger. They all finally get to the point that they are carved up by "the people" in the form an Anti-Trust law, or implode ala Enron.
None of this would happen if leaders would learn contentment. Once you have a working business model, a strong staff, and a steady stream of customers, it is time to sit back and let your investors profit.
Today, no one is profiting. The big names are in a war of attrition and a run for the bottom. Smaller companies are having to compete against artifically low prices, and direct competition from large companies trying to soak up every available dollar.
Investors don't get dividends. Capital is tied up either acquiring companies, protecting the company from aquisitions, or jumping off a cliff with these idiotic offshoring schemes.
So if everyone is miserable, why are we doing it? Ask Captain Ahab.
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The mini-games are actually quite good. You have everything from Bingo to a first-person shooter (well slingshot and paintball.) I like it because it's something we BOTH like to play. Besides, chicks dig muppets.
I have discovered there are very few people actually collecting news. In many cases I boil a dozen or so stories down to a single quote from the same source, or even funnier, one reporter's misinterpretation of another reporter's work. My favorite is when an american reporter writes that "the bomb was detonated from approx 330 feet away." They ripped of someone else's estimate of "about 100 meters."
You are correct though, anyone who takes what they see or hear at face value is a fool. Regardless of the source.
CowboyNeal's system is posting slighty different phrases. Yes takeing me places!
More stuff to help people avoid shitwork, only for humanity to discover our purpose in life IS to do shitwork.
Yes, but a system will not take the place of CowboyNeal until it posts duplicate articles with slighty different phrases!
That's not news. We know it already. The Fox audience is too dumb to remember anything. This is why they have to keep drilling the party line into their heads.
We know we will be in trouble when every commentary article begines with "I am thinking that..."
By the time it's printed in the "News" its usually pretty old.
But seriously...
Let's face it this is the same mindless decision making process that turned sexy into a bunch of anorexic bubbleheads running in swimsuits and music into the uninspired crap typified by the Backstreet Boys and Brittney Spears.
For whatever reason they don't seem to want to cater to anyone with an IQ greater than 90, and certainly no one older than 14.
These are very real possibilities. They are also common outcomes in IT projects of years past. A source escro is mostly an agreement between a finished software vendor and a client. Between a company and a sub-contractor it's simply CYA. (And not a very good form at that.)
Frankly, I love the Matrix. But I hate the indiscriminate shooting of Police officers. Hollywood relies WAY too much on the concept of a gun as power. Sure there's martial arts, and devious plots and such, but when the director really wants your attention he has the character whip out a side arm.
You have to figure that many people in the developing world have lived under the thread of being shot. Guns and violence are a little to close to home.
We weren't all that marvelous. We were simply out of bomber range.
What do you think Linus? (Poster stares back with a big thumbs up.)
Considering they are simply going to cherry pick the positive comments and dredge the bottom for the stupidist flaming zealot I think we have about as much chance of being heard as a Temperance protestor at the Octoberfest.
5 processors is when you have an 8 way box lobotomized by the Win2K kernel because you didn't spend a bundle more on licenses.
We also worship caffiene and you have done bad things to Java.
[] I am a terrorist
[] All of the above
[] I think different (Penciled in)
Thank you. I'd repressed that memory.
Check out the website, they even had archaelogists on the project. It sure beats the 87 billion we just dropped in the middle east with no hope of seeing again.
Now you want to talk about wastes of money. Philadelphia just built 2 new stadiums for about 1.2 billion dollars. I wouldn't mind, save they the schools are chronically short funded, the new stadiums have half the seats of the old stadium, and nosebleeds cost $60. No one around here can afford that on a regular basis.
Bitch all you want about Boston wasting your money. You got infrastructure out of the deal. All we got was a stay of execution until the next time our sports teams want to play hardball. Damn it, and we had just paid off Veteren's Stadium...
Another pertinant quote from the Art of War itself, in Chapter III (Attack by Strategim):
IOW the best way to win is not to fight.
Better to have the state tag them with something indelible and obvious. Not only would they never be put in a position of trust again, people would be able to read the content of their character from across the room.
If jail space is the issue, stop locking up drug offenders and/or bring back corporal punishment. A nice "IDENTITY THIEF" brand on the forehead would be a good start. Perhaps reversed so they can read it for themselves in the mirror every day. My other thought is a tattoo on the fingers, one ring for each guilty conviction. Heck, I'd even chip in for some local for the schmucks, because they are going to have hell getting the time of day from anyone in the street.
You can't shred a classified document. It has to be "declassified" and then you can destroy it. My mom used to do it as a summer job for the Navy. Basically you stamp it "declassified" with a rubber stamp first. (Of course after the proper parties sacrificing the appropriate number and quality of chickens.)
I would argue that no leader of these large corporations is successful. No matter how large the company grows, the feel the need to make it bigger and bigger and bigger. They all finally get to the point that they are carved up by "the people" in the form an Anti-Trust law, or implode ala Enron.
None of this would happen if leaders would learn contentment. Once you have a working business model, a strong staff, and a steady stream of customers, it is time to sit back and let your investors profit.
Today, no one is profiting. The big names are in a war of attrition and a run for the bottom. Smaller companies are having to compete against artifically low prices, and direct competition from large companies trying to soak up every available dollar.
Investors don't get dividends. Capital is tied up either acquiring companies, protecting the company from aquisitions, or jumping off a cliff with these idiotic offshoring schemes.
So if everyone is miserable, why are we doing it? Ask Captain Ahab.