reclaiming our outsourced jobs, canceling all worker visas, banning of outsourcing, banning of multinational corporations, and fighting illegal immigration with the greater enthusiasm than drugs and terrorism.
That would be so fun...
Watching the states committing economic suicide, becoming unable to sell below any other country's prices or being forced to cut its entire workforce's salaries to china ranges.
That's nothing. When I was younger we played Poker. It was a strange game where, if you lost, you could lose real money.
Losing often enough could end with you losing your wife, kids and house; leaving you on a homeless shelter for the rest of your life. After that, all other games seemed too unrealistic, so I stopped playing.
They say there's a funnier game community going on in certain countries of Africa. In those, when your character gets hit by a bullet, you receive a bullet wound yourself. I might consider playing those games if all the system is as realistic as that.
The first realism mod for GTA would kill the game, taking into account all new cars auto close all doors when surpassing about 30km/h.
The game would be returned after trying to bypass dozen cars' security system, getting caught in the spot, sent to jail and forced to perform favors on the officer or suffer permanent injuries.
How much of this money will the artist see? Wouldn't suprise me if it was zero.
Of course they will see this money!
In the millions and millions of sales produced by the erradication of piracy. Obviously.
See, for each extra 25 pounds you pay to the ISP, a pirate is forced to spend 50 on music. Of those 50, the UK media company takes 20 and the artist's company, which currently resides in the United States will receive the other 30. Of those 30, the artist will see 1.25.
It's all so cristal clear I'm amazed they didn't create the law before the ISPs even existed. After all, you could've sung a song on the phone, stopping a pirate from buying it three of four times.
What's actually happening is that the UK's government is forcing ISPs to warn people who they believe are breaking the law. Of course, ISPs are saying that this is expensive and that they plan to pass the costs along to consumers.
I think this is going to be a laughable clusterfuck.
It's worse than that.
The UK's government is forcing the ISPs to spend money to augment the benefits of the media business.
So, essentially, business A is paying the government to force business B to raise his prices and spend the money in business A's benefit.
And it won't be a clusterfuck because it's currently impossible to prove whether the imagined benefits will in fact exist.
Seriously this sounds like the event that made the Fantastic Four, maybe some astronauts or cosmonauts need to be checked.
I call dibs on checking the chick you've not yet found. You can keep the rocky formation, the Bonzo impersonator and the unmanly... unmanlily?...unmanley?... gay stretchy guy.
No shit. I don't understand how this got to be a story. What's next, "Should Engineers Who Design Bridges Demonstrate Competency Before Thousands of Automobiles Drive on Those Bridges?"
No.
They should pass an accelerated three month course on how to mix cement, then spend six months mixing cement for 300$/month and then change jobs saying in their CV that they have five years of experience in construction. Only then they're ready to apply their experience to design a bridge.
When the first car goes over it and falls to its demise, they're just have to patch the bridge.
After a couple of years and innumerable patches, the bridge, now essentially a pile of cement over a chasm, will finally stop dropping more than a couple cars per day to the void. At that point, the engineers are ready to find a management position.
If it gets as cold as the ambient, it's as unconfortable as not wearing anything on that clothing slot. Which, beyond the polar circle, for example, can be between "quite" and "fucking".
Actually I'm pretty sure that's a standard sci-fi technique. Send the big mining robot to the asteroid. It then starts processing the asteroid and ejects the waste material in order to produce thrust to head towards Earth (aiming for an orbit rather than a collision:).
Actually, the standard Sci-Fi technique is: - Send big mining robot. - Big mining robot passes through exotic magnetic field and develops conscience. - Big mining robot invades Earth; possibly to mine it.
I hereby predict that within 4 or 5 years the UN will unveil a scheme to Save Mankind from, ummmmmmm, a passing neutron star. The scheme will feature a 1000 MT hydrogen bomb, spaceships, and short wave radio. Nicolas Cage, some hot babe, and a cute kid will survive...on Mars!
And both Nicolas Cage and the kid will be Wizards.
The babe will just be hot, which, unlike wizardry, gets things done in a prompt manner.
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Why "Games:"?
reclaiming our outsourced jobs, canceling all worker visas, banning of outsourcing, banning of multinational corporations, and fighting illegal immigration with the greater enthusiasm than drugs and terrorism.
That would be so fun...
Watching the states committing economic suicide, becoming unable to sell below any other country's prices or being forced to cut its entire workforce's salaries to china ranges.
and now my Chrome RAM usage goes up to 600MB of RAM.
That's just wrong.
A much better reaction would've been to have your Chrome RAM usage go up to 600MB of ROCK!
That's nothing. When I was younger we played Poker. It was a strange game where, if you lost, you could lose real money.
Losing often enough could end with you losing your wife, kids and house; leaving you on a homeless shelter for the rest of your life. After that, all other games seemed too unrealistic, so I stopped playing.
They say there's a funnier game community going on in certain countries of Africa. In those, when your character gets hit by a bullet, you receive a bullet wound yourself. I might consider playing those games if all the system is as realistic as that.
The first realism mod for GTA would kill the game, taking into account all new cars auto close all doors when surpassing about 30km/h.
The game would be returned after trying to bypass dozen cars' security system, getting caught in the spot, sent to jail and forced to perform favors on the officer or suffer permanent injuries.
A taser. Incorporate a taser to the mouse and keyboard.
Or better yet, taser underwear.
Then you'll have the perfect stealth, the epic silence of absolutely nobody playing.
This reminds me of the old discussions about realism in pen&paper RPGs.
We got a medievalist on our group, let him prepare a short demonstration game and quickly confirmed that it was, essentially, annoying.
He wants more real violence? There's no need to create a game for that, mod L4D2 or MW2 to multiply damage by a hundred.
It's one of those arguments that end as soon as someone actually does the little effort of trying the argued point.
How much of this money will the artist see? Wouldn't suprise me if it was zero.
Of course they will see this money!
In the millions and millions of sales produced by the erradication of piracy. Obviously.
See, for each extra 25 pounds you pay to the ISP, a pirate is forced to spend 50 on music. Of those 50, the UK media company takes 20 and the artist's company, which currently resides in the United States will receive the other 30. Of those 30, the artist will see 1.25.
It's all so cristal clear I'm amazed they didn't create the law before the ISPs even existed. After all, you could've sung a song on the phone, stopping a pirate from buying it three of four times.
What's actually happening is that the UK's government is forcing ISPs to warn people who they believe are breaking the law. Of course, ISPs are saying that this is expensive and that they plan to pass the costs along to consumers.
I think this is going to be a laughable clusterfuck.
It's worse than that.
The UK's government is forcing the ISPs to spend money to augment the benefits of the media business.
So, essentially, business A is paying the government to force business B to raise his prices and spend the money in business A's benefit.
And it won't be a clusterfuck because it's currently impossible to prove whether the imagined benefits will in fact exist.
So why have the sectors at all? [...]
The 1024 byte file could then take 1024 bytes.
That's not "not having sectors", that's having sectors 1 byte long.
Thus, apply the reasoning of "bigger sectors, faster treatment of bigger files, and vice-versa".
Do you really believe your hard drive has 256 heads?
It had only six, at first, but we didn't know the thing about burning the stumps.
"Deckard was a replicant"
"Reckard was a deplicant"
Seriously this sounds like the event that made the Fantastic Four, maybe some astronauts or cosmonauts need to be checked.
I call dibs on checking the chick you've not yet found. You can keep the rocky formation, the Bonzo impersonator and the unmanly... unmanlily? ...unmanley?... gay stretchy guy.
For the love of God, think of those of us who're at the office on christmas and post some interesting news.
Please. :(
Some fantasticly exagerated article about black holes eating our galaxy.
Some horror story about RIAA invading a country with its armed forces and cutting the prisoners' lips so they can't whistle while they build a bridge.
Something about gamer girls who play DF on their home made portable on the way to their modelling job.
Anything.
P.S.: Yes I have massive karma to burn offtopic. Hear teh plead of a desperate man.
No shit. I don't understand how this got to be a story. What's next, "Should Engineers Who Design Bridges Demonstrate Competency Before Thousands of Automobiles Drive on Those Bridges?"
No.
They should pass an accelerated three month course on how to mix cement, then spend six months mixing cement for 300$/month and then change jobs saying in their CV that they have five years of experience in construction. Only then they're ready to apply their experience to design a bridge.
When the first car goes over it and falls to its demise, they're just have to patch the bridge.
After a couple of years and innumerable patches, the bridge, now essentially a pile of cement over a chasm, will finally stop dropping more than a couple cars per day to the void. At that point, the engineers are ready to find a management position.
Are you happy?
It feels cold because it's sucking heat out and using it. So it's constantly leaching heat out. Hence it would feel cold. Simple, really.
Heat can't be turned directly into energy, only difference in heat.
If it gets as cold as the ambient, it's as unconfortable as not wearing anything on that clothing slot. Which, beyond the polar circle, for example, can be between "quite" and "fucking".
I give you a prediction:
New law - Copyright doesn't expire.
Consequences - Not enough people care and life goes on.
Actually I'm pretty sure that's a standard sci-fi technique. Send the big mining robot to the asteroid. It then starts processing the asteroid and ejects the waste material in order to produce thrust to head towards Earth (aiming for an orbit rather than a collision :).
Actually, the standard Sci-Fi technique is:
- Send big mining robot.
- Big mining robot passes through exotic magnetic field and develops conscience.
- Big mining robot invades Earth; possibly to mine it.
But it is much more probable for the meteorite to kill us all than a succession of lightnings killing each and every human being.
And not just because after the first few thousand lightning hits we'd start thinking about hiding in caves.
I must be having a case of the Mondays. It took me WAY too long to get that joke.
Probably a case of subconscious self preservation of sanity.
I reserve my opinion until Mat Perry's declarations on the subject.
we do not grow fur, we make clothes. we do not enter torpor at midday, we invent air conditioning
You've not been to Spain, I gather.
We call both solutions "Pecho lobo" and "Siesta"
I hereby predict that within 4 or 5 years the UN will unveil a scheme to Save Mankind from, ummmmmmm, a passing neutron star. The scheme will feature a 1000 MT hydrogen bomb, spaceships, and short wave radio. Nicolas Cage, some hot babe, and a cute kid will survive...on Mars!
And both Nicolas Cage and the kid will be Wizards.
The babe will just be hot, which, unlike wizardry, gets things done in a prompt manner.