Community Owned Fiber Optics Network - COFON ("cough on", or "coffin"). Coffin is kinda cool 'cause then you can be like "Put the final nail in the competition." It does open you to some devious marketing strategies by your competitors though, so maybe not.
If "community-owned" is hyphonated you could be C-FON ("see fun"). Marketing something like "See Fun, See Progress". *shrug*
I got it... Community-owned Light-based Information Transportation Services, or CL-ITS. That's the ticket.
I, for one, wel-... wait... fuck, I already did this joke in this story. Same title too. You should have welcomed our "wobbly and prone to falling-over walking robot overlords," as that's what I wish I had done.
Would a rogue state has a cache of nuclear weapons at its disposal? Would they have a leader who acquired his mantle against the will of the people and assumes all power, all the while actual elected officials are powerless to stop? Do rogue states invade soverign countries for no particular reason and overthrow their government?
You show me a country with those qualifications and I'll show you a rogue state!
-1 flamebait, +2 insightful, +1 funny... take that mod!
I was trying to think of something really witty to say, something that would totally make the parent rethink their post and question their whole thought structure on Americans... but all I could come up with was this Family Guy quote:
I haven't, but I have heard of Carmack, and Carmack "seems to think that Intel's direction using traditional ray tracing methods is not going to work." I didn't understand anything in that article, but assuming that the blurb was correct (and Carmack didn't seem to refute it in the 3 times he replied to that story), then I'd say that they may not be "less and less interested" but maybe they are "less and less right about the direction to take." Take your pick.
And while my little blurb may have been fundamentally incorrect, while I haven't heard anyone say they were looking forward to the new Radeon, I have heard even less people were looking forward to the new Intel graphical chipset. Have you?
Splitting hairs on this seems kinda useless. nVidia is really it right now in the graphics world, at least as far as the public is concerned, and I don't see that changing in the near future.
Fair enough, but it seems like AMD is getting less and less press, and ATI is less and less desirable, and Intel is less and less interested in making graphic cards. I have never heard anyone say they were dying to see the new Radeon. If ATI were doing well I don't think they could have been purchased by AMD... but I could be wrong. Just shootin from the hip, my friend, just shootin from the hip =)
It's easy to not be afraid when you have NO COMPETITION! I realize that wasn't the point of the article, but there were some stories no here about Creative and how they have sucked since they bought up the competition, and it would suck if that happened (more than it already has) to NVidia.
The only reason I know anything about early settlers was because of Oregon Trail. It's because of that game that I realize killing 13 buffalo is wicked fun, but you can only carry so many pounds home, and that dysentery and cholrea will kill the fuck out of your family. I type really fast because of games like (not that game specifically, but games like it that I can't remember the name of).
I'm not saying that games like Trauma Center are the end-all beat-all educational omnibus, but they do play their part. That antibiotic salve cures everything!
I was going to say this very thing. If you get the chance, watch this movie. It's not great or anything, but it will give you a perspective on this article that you may not have thought of.
The whole deal is Robin Williams plays a cutter, who is a guy who looks at your whole life as you viewed it and creates a little montage flick to be played at your funeral ("rememory").
The idea would have been cool if I hadn't seen that movie.
Most kids already know good online habits, everyone knows you shouldn't go with random strangers online Like not putting pictures up of them underaged drinking on FaceBook? Oh wait...
The problem though is, it won't be "piracy is illegal and so don't do it" it will be some online predators use pirated versions of Windows which probably is a fact, then it becomes all online predators use pirated Windows, then it becomes pirating Windows == online stalking. I don't know what internet security courses at a high school have to do with your tinfoil hat there, but it is really shiny. The kids will love it... so long as they don't tie you to the ceiling and shine bright lights at it.
Thank you, ok, clicked the link. Sign petition button... they want my name... alright, Wil...Wheaton... email, wil@...wilwheaton.net... comment. Oh, this should be good. Alright, "Dr Shitboll, if the Special Olympics had a movie-making competition, you would win a medal... and not just one for participation like Wes Anderson."
There, that should do it. Well now Wil can't petition... he probably wouldn't use his own name anyway. I'm sure he'd go with Brent Spiner or something. Ok, done and done.
A very sensible question. I think, all things being equal, whenever a big-name studio says that their movie made no money, and given that money is a lot like energy in that you cannot create or destroy either, a Uwe Boll film makes money. Something like that anyway.
Not that it's worth the time or bandwidth to get into a geek slap fight with you, but since you put the condescention in your post, I'll take the time to enlighten you. The article was about innovation. The article also spoke at length about the innovations in WoW. My point was that WoW was not that innovative, and therefore not worth reading. The game was pretty, it was shiny, and it was a rehash of things that have already been done, while the article was rhetoric fitting for a Slashdot Sunday.
Now if you want to banter on the ultimate point of the article, I would say that the point of the article was to get hits from Slashdot, because everything I read in there was a useless diatribe... otherwise known as platitudes.
Internal policies and processes that nobody gives two shits about. The article didn't reveal the reason that Blizzard is a gaming phenomenon, why WoW is the biggest ticket in a crowded MMO genre, or much of anything. It was filled with floating daisies and self-appreciating drivel.
If you wasted your time reading it, like I did, and then came on here to try to make some grandiose statement, thereby wasting my time and yours... mission accomplished. All I wanted to do was cut out the middleman for some other poor, bored, tired soul and let them know the article was not worth reading. Then they can better waste their time on here in the WoW sewing circle.
Look, the game is pretty, fun for a while, and very addictive. They took the tried and true method of giving item hoarders, dungeon crawlers, D&D fans, and basic gamers a basic concept that each one could easily get addicted to. TFA had nothing you didn't already know. They basically took the best parts of Evercrack, UO, and D20 systems and made a pretty game out of it. End of article. Making red-colored crack and successfully getting a whole bunch of people addicted to it isn't really that impressive, and neither was TFA.
It's kind of silly to report things like this. How'd that study go?
Pollster: Mind if I ask you some questions? Person: Sure. Pollster: Do you like sausage? Person: Yeah, it's good. Pollster: Patty or link? Person: Patty please, something bothers me when it's in the casing of- Pollster: Are you afraid I'm going to kill you? Person: I... what? Are you? Pollster: Thank you for your time. ------------- Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you - Kurt Cobain
zOMG, best idea evar. Everyone would do that. Paste a bumper sticker on your epic kodo that says "My other mount is a Hummer," then just ride around Azeroth. Run through Ogr or Lagforge and talk to three vendors in opposite corners of the town to get 22g. Unique in-game weapons that are drops off rares. The Schick Quatroblade, Jobs' Third Leg (the iCudgel), dual wielding Wilford Brimley Bloodsugar Pokers.
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All we have to do to fix the ratio is either sell less Madden/GTA games or get more African-Danes to program them. Either way is fine.
Community Owned Fiber Optics Network - COFON ("cough on", or "coffin"). Coffin is kinda cool 'cause then you can be like "Put the final nail in the competition." It does open you to some devious marketing strategies by your competitors though, so maybe not.
If "community-owned" is hyphonated you could be C-FON ("see fun"). Marketing something like "See Fun, See Progress". *shrug*
I got it... Community-owned Light-based Information Transportation Services, or CL-ITS. That's the ticket.
I, for one, wel-... wait... fuck, I already did this joke in this story. Same title too. You should have welcomed our "wobbly and prone to falling-over walking robot overlords," as that's what I wish I had done.
Would a rogue state has a cache of nuclear weapons at its disposal? Would they have a leader who acquired his mantle against the will of the people and assumes all power, all the while actual elected officials are powerless to stop? Do rogue states invade soverign countries for no particular reason and overthrow their government?
You show me a country with those qualifications and I'll show you a rogue state!
-1 flamebait, +2 insightful, +1 funny... take that mod!
I was trying to think of something really witty to say, something that would totally make the parent rethink their post and question their whole thought structure on Americans... but all I could come up with was this Family Guy quote:
...how sad is that?
"Who touched the thermostat?"
I, for one, welcome our record distance walking robots overlords.
A masochist eh? How's Crysis playin on yer Intel chipset? =)
It does make sense, when you think about it, since they've found step 2 and patented a frustration detection system.
I have to steal this comment from one of the posts from that story, but...
Step 1: Make frustration and annoying software
Step 2: Patent frustration detection system
Step 3: Profit.
I haven't, but I have heard of Carmack, and Carmack "seems to think that Intel's direction using traditional ray tracing methods is not going to work." I didn't understand anything in that article, but assuming that the blurb was correct (and Carmack didn't seem to refute it in the 3 times he replied to that story), then I'd say that they may not be "less and less interested" but maybe they are "less and less right about the direction to take." Take your pick.
And while my little blurb may have been fundamentally incorrect, while I haven't heard anyone say they were looking forward to the new Radeon, I have heard even less people were looking forward to the new Intel graphical chipset. Have you?
Splitting hairs on this seems kinda useless. nVidia is really it right now in the graphics world, at least as far as the public is concerned, and I don't see that changing in the near future.
Fair enough, but it seems like AMD is getting less and less press, and ATI is less and less desirable, and Intel is less and less interested in making graphic cards. I have never heard anyone say they were dying to see the new Radeon. If ATI were doing well I don't think they could have been purchased by AMD... but I could be wrong. Just shootin from the hip, my friend, just shootin from the hip =)
It's easy to not be afraid when you have NO COMPETITION! I realize that wasn't the point of the article, but there were some stories no here about Creative and how they have sucked since they bought up the competition, and it would suck if that happened (more than it already has) to NVidia.
The only reason I know anything about early settlers was because of Oregon Trail. It's because of that game that I realize killing 13 buffalo is wicked fun, but you can only carry so many pounds home, and that dysentery and cholrea will kill the fuck out of your family. I type really fast because of games like (not that game specifically, but games like it that I can't remember the name of).
I'm not saying that games like Trauma Center are the end-all beat-all educational omnibus, but they do play their part. That antibiotic salve cures everything!
I was going to say this very thing. If you get the chance, watch this movie. It's not great or anything, but it will give you a perspective on this article that you may not have thought of.
The whole deal is Robin Williams plays a cutter, who is a guy who looks at your whole life as you viewed it and creates a little montage flick to be played at your funeral ("rememory").
The idea would have been cool if I hadn't seen that movie.
I missed it at first, but now that I see it I can't stop laughing. That's wonderful.
Ooooh... *sighs* I had something to say but I can't remember it now. Microsoft. LAWL.
No wait, I got one. The peanut is neither a pea, nor a nut.
Oh wait... yes it is.
So wait... the DMCA made a parody of YMCA poster so he couldn't use his Y!IM? OMFG, IANAL, but IMHO, this is BS.
Thank you, ok, clicked the link. Sign petition button... they want my name... alright, Wil...Wheaton... email, wil@...wilwheaton.net... comment. Oh, this should be good. Alright, "Dr Shitboll, if the Special Olympics had a movie-making competition, you would win a medal... and not just one for participation like Wes Anderson."
There, that should do it. Well now Wil can't petition... he probably wouldn't use his own name anyway. I'm sure he'd go with Brent Spiner or something. Ok, done and done.A very sensible question. I think, all things being equal, whenever a big-name studio says that their movie made no money, and given that money is a lot like energy in that you cannot create or destroy either, a Uwe Boll film makes money. Something like that anyway.
Where do I sign? Do you need blood? Money? A donation? How many times can I sign? Fucking I'LL SIGN!
Not that it's worth the time or bandwidth to get into a geek slap fight with you, but since you put the condescention in your post, I'll take the time to enlighten you. The article was about innovation. The article also spoke at length about the innovations in WoW. My point was that WoW was not that innovative, and therefore not worth reading. The game was pretty, it was shiny, and it was a rehash of things that have already been done, while the article was rhetoric fitting for a Slashdot Sunday.
Now if you want to banter on the ultimate point of the article, I would say that the point of the article was to get hits from Slashdot, because everything I read in there was a useless diatribe... otherwise known as platitudes.
Internal policies and processes that nobody gives two shits about. The article didn't reveal the reason that Blizzard is a gaming phenomenon, why WoW is the biggest ticket in a crowded MMO genre, or much of anything. It was filled with floating daisies and self-appreciating drivel.
If you wasted your time reading it, like I did, and then came on here to try to make some grandiose statement, thereby wasting my time and yours... mission accomplished. All I wanted to do was cut out the middleman for some other poor, bored, tired soul and let them know the article was not worth reading. Then they can better waste their time on here in the WoW sewing circle.
Bla, I personally know at least 5 gold farmers who at any one time have more than 30 accounts. Statistics can prove anything except the truth.
Look, the game is pretty, fun for a while, and very addictive. They took the tried and true method of giving item hoarders, dungeon crawlers, D&D fans, and basic gamers a basic concept that each one could easily get addicted to. TFA had nothing you didn't already know. They basically took the best parts of Evercrack, UO, and D20 systems and made a pretty game out of it. End of article. Making red-colored crack and successfully getting a whole bunch of people addicted to it isn't really that impressive, and neither was TFA.
It's kind of silly to report things like this. How'd that study go?
Pollster: Mind if I ask you some questions?
Person: Sure.
Pollster: Do you like sausage?
Person: Yeah, it's good.
Pollster: Patty or link?
Person: Patty please, something bothers me when it's in the casing of-
Pollster: Are you afraid I'm going to kill you?
Person: I... what? Are you?
Pollster: Thank you for your time.
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Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you - Kurt Cobain
zOMG, best idea evar. Everyone would do that. Paste a bumper sticker on your epic kodo that says "My other mount is a Hummer," then just ride around Azeroth. Run through Ogr or Lagforge and talk to three vendors in opposite corners of the town to get 22g. Unique in-game weapons that are drops off rares. The Schick Quatroblade, Jobs' Third Leg (the iCudgel), dual wielding Wilford Brimley Bloodsugar Pokers.