What is it with TV and even movies, when it comes to representations of both computers and gaming? Are these stories written by forty-five year old men who have never actually picked up a computer game in their lives and still use a typewriter to make all the scripts, and which are then approved and decorated with "with it slag" by gen-x posturing producers who like to THINK they're hip to all this, but likely were busy getting girls drunk in their frat houses while the real video junkies were spending the laundry money at the local college video arcade or networking university computers for Doom/Quake deathmatches after hours? Or do they just let a monkey with brain fever throw it's own excrement on blank pages, and then send the resulting mess to a typist? It could hardly do worse. I lost interest about ten minutes into the damn thing, as it rapidly degraded into the worst X-files (ok, except for the babe...) in a long, long time. Someone else already mentioned the "magical computers" that they use in the series, technology that not only doesn't exist, doesn't even follow any sort of internal logic or consistency. What a f*ing boring game! Yea gods, even the ol' holodeck nonsense had more creativity and elegance of design. Man, Tron would beat the snot out of those FX (except again I suppose the scantily clad villain, which then just looked silly in strange Tron like bulky black outfits). Anyway...what a disappointment.
...Ever ready to kill, torture, oppress, and otherwise detract from the rational progress of human society for another 2,000 years. And all in the name of a dusty, weak-minded faith better left behind along with fear of black cats and the smell of burning witches... Nice "eternal" organization you've got there. "Look upon my works o ye mighty and despair!"
My actual time spend working is in the range of 50-60-70 hours a week. No OT, no choice, really. I've had projects in alpha or beta stages that had to be pushed through...which means all night, all weekend, up til 6:30am, shower, and work all day until 4pm and go home and crash. Sometimes it just has to be done. Often it has to have been done yesterday. Is it right? Is it fair? Is it healthy? Unlikely. But's it's life a new media worker. -- A.
How pathetic a loser are you A. Coward? I guess that and your more than latent homophobia are well revealed in your above post. Too bad there isn't software to keep idiots and closed minded morons OFF the net. It's the net and the rest of us that needs protection, not the other way around, sheesh. "There is, of course, no reason why the new totalitarianisms should resemble the old. Government by clubs and firing squads, by artificial famine, mass imprisonment and mass deportation, is not merely inhumane (nobody cares much about that nowadays); it is demonstrably inefficient and, in an age of advanced technology, inefficiency is the sin against the Holy Ghost. A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspapere ditors, and school teachers....[such propagandists] accomplish their greatest triumphs, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals." Aldous Huxley, in his 1946 revised forward to _Brave new world_ -- A.
Oh please! Why be afraid of this? To suggest that we are not meant to "meddle" in such matters is the supreme hubris of all. There are generally consequences to all advances in science and technology, and no matter how hard we try, it is impossible to accurately predict them all. But is this a valid reason to halt our exploration of the world around us, to falter in our continued quest for knowledge and understanding? No, not at all. This is like saying that because houses burn down, we obviously were not meant to discover the secret of fire. If you protest because you find this shocking to your religious views, then expand your view and your religion. I happen to be an atheist, but even if you're a theist, no knowledge that man seeks and finds, could be considered improper or wrong if your theist view includes an omnipotent and omniscient creator. If we are able to discover a fact about existence, it is folly to think that we are uncovering forbidden knowledge. A real god would not place any such limits on the human race, nor would they exist in a non theist universe. Relax, grow up, get over it. It is not what we CAN do with science that matters, only what we CHOOSE to do with it that counts in the end. All knowledge is at least potentially harmful, but then often so is ignorance.
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What is it with TV and even movies, when it comes to representations of both computers and gaming? Are these stories written by forty-five year old men who have never actually picked up a computer game in their lives and still use a typewriter to make all the scripts, and which are then approved and decorated with "with it slag" by gen-x posturing producers who like to THINK they're hip to all this, but likely were busy getting girls drunk in their frat houses while the real video junkies were spending the laundry money at the local college video arcade or networking university computers for Doom/Quake deathmatches after hours? Or do they just let a monkey with brain fever throw it's own excrement on blank pages, and then send the resulting mess to a typist? It could hardly do worse. I lost interest about ten minutes into the damn thing, as it rapidly degraded into the worst X-files (ok, except for the babe...) in a long, long time. Someone else already mentioned the "magical computers" that they use in the series, technology that not only doesn't exist, doesn't even follow any sort of internal logic or consistency. What a f*ing boring game! Yea gods, even the ol' holodeck nonsense had more creativity and elegance of design. Man, Tron would beat the snot out of those FX (except again I suppose the scantily clad villain, which then just looked silly in strange Tron like bulky black outfits). Anyway...what a disappointment.
...Ever ready to kill, torture, oppress, and otherwise detract from the rational progress of human society for another 2,000 years. And all in the name of a dusty, weak-minded faith better left behind along with fear of black cats and the smell of burning witches... Nice "eternal" organization you've got there. "Look upon my works o ye mighty and despair!"
My actual time spend working is in the range of 50-60-70 hours a week. No OT, no choice, really. I've had projects in alpha or beta stages that had to be pushed through...which means all night, all weekend, up til 6:30am, shower, and work all day until 4pm and go home and crash. Sometimes it just has to be done. Often it has to have been done yesterday. Is it right? Is it fair? Is it healthy? Unlikely. But's it's life a new media worker. -- A.
How pathetic a loser are you A. Coward? I guess that and your more than latent homophobia are well revealed in your above post. Too bad there isn't software to keep idiots and closed minded morons OFF the net. It's the net and the rest of us that needs protection, not the other way around, sheesh. "There is, of course, no reason why the new totalitarianisms should resemble the old. Government by clubs and firing squads, by artificial famine, mass imprisonment and mass deportation, is not merely inhumane (nobody cares much about that nowadays); it is demonstrably inefficient and, in an age of advanced technology, inefficiency is the sin against the Holy Ghost. A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspapere ditors, and school teachers....[such propagandists] accomplish their greatest triumphs, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals." Aldous Huxley, in his 1946 revised forward to _Brave new world_ -- A.
Oh please! Why be afraid of this? To suggest that we are not meant to "meddle" in such matters is the supreme hubris of all. There are generally consequences to all advances in science and technology, and no matter how hard we try, it is impossible to accurately predict them all. But is this a valid reason to halt our exploration of the world around us, to falter in our continued quest for knowledge and understanding? No, not at all. This is like saying that because houses burn down, we obviously were not meant to discover the secret of fire. If you protest because you find this shocking to your religious views, then expand your view and your religion. I happen to be an atheist, but even if you're a theist, no knowledge that man seeks and finds, could be considered improper or wrong if your theist view includes an omnipotent and omniscient creator. If we are able to discover a fact about existence, it is folly to think that we are uncovering forbidden knowledge. A real god would not place any such limits on the human race, nor would they exist in a non theist universe. Relax, grow up, get over it. It is not what we CAN do with science that matters, only what we CHOOSE to do with it that counts in the end. All knowledge is at least potentially harmful, but then often so is ignorance.