I think Twitter's success is in its simplicity. I'm not on a high horse or anything; I've very few tweets, and I started my illustrious tweeting with a re-hash of a Penny Arcade strip.
So, now that any potential Twitter cred I might have had is out the window (Twitcred? Tweetcred?), the fact is Twitter is a vastly dumbed-down blogging service that lets anyone post whatever inane minutiae of their life they may feel compelled to share with the rest of us. I'll admit there's a certain bit of creativity in trying to cram something of substance within 140 characters. The funny bit is that practically no tweets actually have any substance in them.
I've been watching Top Gear and every series (season) or two they go to a foreign country. So far they've been to America (British show, if you didn't know that), a few countries in Africa, Romania, Germany, Sweden, France, Vietnam, and probably a half dozen I'm forgetting. They are often amazed at how these countries are portrayed in their culture and it's really not quite the case. (The American South was full of more than a few rednecks though.)
True it can probably be done for cheaper, but it takes place in Tokyo (which makes it more expensive) and then in Akihabara (which makes it even more expensive).
I think it's part of our innate nature to look out for ourselves first and foremost. I don't feel guilty about not donating to charity because, well, I honestly don't have any extra money that I could spare at this point in my life (as much as I'd want to). I volunteer instead.
I do think there's a certain point where a man has pretty much everything he needs and maybe he can use some of that excess to help his fellow neighbor, though.
Yes, quite odd that two similar stories pop up like that. We've got a horrible trainwreck that will result in a media circus, and a train crashed as well.
The old military system worked pretty alright... the new one is a fair bit atrocious. I'm finding it hard to properly train soldiers and have them easily split into squads as before.
If anything needs improving it's the AI in my opinion. I wish you could prioritize orders a little better - like when I say get in the fortress I mean NOW GODDAMMIT.
Although I feel you're generally right on this, I think it is very important. There's been more than a few rather important news stories on here that just don't show up on the American telly. A British friend of mine had wagered that there wouldn't be anything about the recent News of the World scandal in America on television, and I agreed that he was probably right. Imagine my surprise when ABC leads with that story at their 6 o'clock news.
I often have to resort to the BBC for seeing what's going on in the world because American news tends to be largely self-centered. Even though it may not technically be "News for Nerds", I think it's rather important. I'd much prefer hearing about something like this rather than a slashvertisement for Apple or Bitcoin.
"Attys" is shorthand for "Attorneys". Just the way it's been. I suppose they could have said "Attys Gen", but knowing this audience they might have thought it some was script kiddie from Ukraine.
The fact that Netflix has been able to get along as far as it has without raising their prices is a testament to their ingenuity IMO. They're probably being hindered by the studios in every conceivable way that isn't outright malicious or evil and they're still chugging along.
Movie theaters have had revenues going down the pooper for the last decade or so. They need some sort of draw that's difficult to replicate at home with a home theater system. I suppose that's what 3-D was supposed to be... until they started making 3-D televisions like a bunch of morons. Fission mailed.
I have to say, though, that I rather appreciate a bit of creativity in his trolling. Trolling is a art, and things nowadays are usually just goatse and/or spewing racial epithets.
If a McDonald's employee is maimed by an exploding deep fryer and goes to the news, it's bad P.R. for McDonald's. They'd swoop in and pick up the medical bills rather than risk bad press.
Yet a veteran gets his leg blown off, and no one makes a fuss. Doesn't anyone thing that perhaps not taking care of your permanently maimed and injured is at the very least bad P.R.?
When you were a kid, though, I'd wager that you'd just borrow a cartridge from a friend to play it. It's getting a fair bit more difficult to do that sort of stuff nowadays, and in 10 years it might not even be possible.
They're the ones that started escalating the war, not us.
That's a bit pedantic, but that was what I was basically saying. Sure, Valve hired the Narbacular Drop people to make Portal and it was completely made in house, but it pretty much was not their concept from the get-go. They bought a good idea and paid to have the team expand on it.
Some people are also morons. There is yet to be a lick of credible scientific evidences that proper vaccines are in any way harmful to a majority of the population. I'll continue to dismiss them as not only idiots but outright dangerous until there's any proof that the vaccines that we've been using fine with generally little problem for decades causes any harm on a large scale.
Occasionally, bad things do happen. There are a handful of cases where a pre-existing condition has seriously harmed a child. There have also been cases of American soldiers receiving a mandatory Anthrax vaccine and things going rather badly to say the least. The majority of them, however, do not. I would rather have the infinitesimally small chance of a pre-existing condition triggering autism (or worse, death) in one of my future children than have them be at risk for diseases that will definitely kill them (if not outright utterly destroy their quality of life) while simultaneously being a potential risk to other human beings.
Honestly, I think the best way to do things is to give the individual team members a set of specific goals and then let them fill in the blanks.
If you told a class full of 30 film students to make a 2 minute short film involving a tortoise and a traffic cone, I imagine that every one of them would be quite different. Some would be comedic, some would be dramatic, and some would be so over-the-top dramatic that it goes back round to the comedic side.
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I think Twitter's success is in its simplicity. I'm not on a high horse or anything; I've very few tweets, and I started my illustrious tweeting with a re-hash of a Penny Arcade strip.
So, now that any potential Twitter cred I might have had is out the window (Twitcred? Tweetcred?), the fact is Twitter is a vastly dumbed-down blogging service that lets anyone post whatever inane minutiae of their life they may feel compelled to share with the rest of us. I'll admit there's a certain bit of creativity in trying to cram something of substance within 140 characters. The funny bit is that practically no tweets actually have any substance in them.
They have wheels, rocket engines, and drag parachutes. I say we take Atlantis and Endeavor out to Utah and have the world's most bitchin' drag race.
I've been watching Top Gear and every series (season) or two they go to a foreign country. So far they've been to America (British show, if you didn't know that), a few countries in Africa, Romania, Germany, Sweden, France, Vietnam, and probably a half dozen I'm forgetting. They are often amazed at how these countries are portrayed in their culture and it's really not quite the case. (The American South was full of more than a few rednecks though.)
the previous ones could be defeated if you smiled.
So they wouldn't work on the two or three sunny days of the year then? That's not so bad.
The worst part is the false positives. Some of us have it really hard, you know? It took me a month to get my driver's license.
Sincerely,
Jack Mehoff
True it can probably be done for cheaper, but it takes place in Tokyo (which makes it more expensive) and then in Akihabara (which makes it even more expensive).
I think it's part of our innate nature to look out for ourselves first and foremost. I don't feel guilty about not donating to charity because, well, I honestly don't have any extra money that I could spare at this point in my life (as much as I'd want to). I volunteer instead.
I do think there's a certain point where a man has pretty much everything he needs and maybe he can use some of that excess to help his fellow neighbor, though.
...what?
Yes, quite odd that two similar stories pop up like that. We've got a horrible trainwreck that will result in a media circus, and a train crashed as well.
Why not just get a QR code tattooed on you?
The old military system worked pretty alright... the new one is a fair bit atrocious. I'm finding it hard to properly train soldiers and have them easily split into squads as before.
Make custom job names. In a 200 Dwarf fortress, you should have at least a couple dedicated doctors.
I honestly find that part of the charm.
If anything needs improving it's the AI in my opinion. I wish you could prioritize orders a little better - like when I say get in the fortress I mean NOW GODDAMMIT.
Although I feel you're generally right on this, I think it is very important. There's been more than a few rather important news stories on here that just don't show up on the American telly. A British friend of mine had wagered that there wouldn't be anything about the recent News of the World scandal in America on television, and I agreed that he was probably right. Imagine my surprise when ABC leads with that story at their 6 o'clock news.
I often have to resort to the BBC for seeing what's going on in the world because American news tends to be largely self-centered. Even though it may not technically be "News for Nerds", I think it's rather important. I'd much prefer hearing about something like this rather than a slashvertisement for Apple or Bitcoin.
"Attys" is shorthand for "Attorneys". Just the way it's been. I suppose they could have said "Attys Gen", but knowing this audience they might have thought it some was script kiddie from Ukraine.
The fact that Netflix has been able to get along as far as it has without raising their prices is a testament to their ingenuity IMO. They're probably being hindered by the studios in every conceivable way that isn't outright malicious or evil and they're still chugging along.
Dear drb226,
Movie theaters have had revenues going down the pooper for the last decade or so. They need some sort of draw that's difficult to replicate at home with a home theater system. I suppose that's what 3-D was supposed to be... until they started making 3-D televisions like a bunch of morons. Fission mailed.
Sincerely, Ihmhi
I have to say, though, that I rather appreciate a bit of creativity in his trolling. Trolling is a art, and things nowadays are usually just goatse and/or spewing racial epithets.
No, I think he's talking about the Ecuadorian gang banger up for trial on the 30th.
If a McDonald's employee is maimed by an exploding deep fryer and goes to the news, it's bad P.R. for McDonald's. They'd swoop in and pick up the medical bills rather than risk bad press.
Yet a veteran gets his leg blown off, and no one makes a fuss. Doesn't anyone thing that perhaps not taking care of your permanently maimed and injured is at the very least bad P.R.?
When you were a kid, though, I'd wager that you'd just borrow a cartridge from a friend to play it. It's getting a fair bit more difficult to do that sort of stuff nowadays, and in 10 years it might not even be possible.
They're the ones that started escalating the war, not us.
That's a bit pedantic, but that was what I was basically saying. Sure, Valve hired the Narbacular Drop people to make Portal and it was completely made in house, but it pretty much was not their concept from the get-go. They bought a good idea and paid to have the team expand on it.
Well I'm pretty sure you can't patent a person, so Amy Winehouse is safe.
Some people are also morons. There is yet to be a lick of credible scientific evidences that proper vaccines are in any way harmful to a majority of the population. I'll continue to dismiss them as not only idiots but outright dangerous until there's any proof that the vaccines that we've been using fine with generally little problem for decades causes any harm on a large scale.
Occasionally, bad things do happen. There are a handful of cases where a pre-existing condition has seriously harmed a child. There have also been cases of American soldiers receiving a mandatory Anthrax vaccine and things going rather badly to say the least. The majority of them, however, do not. I would rather have the infinitesimally small chance of a pre-existing condition triggering autism (or worse, death) in one of my future children than have them be at risk for diseases that will definitely kill them (if not outright utterly destroy their quality of life) while simultaneously being a potential risk to other human beings.
Honestly, I think the best way to do things is to give the individual team members a set of specific goals and then let them fill in the blanks.
If you told a class full of 30 film students to make a 2 minute short film involving a tortoise and a traffic cone, I imagine that every one of them would be quite different. Some would be comedic, some would be dramatic, and some would be so over-the-top dramatic that it goes back round to the comedic side.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.