On a related subject, you can use the Mac OS X app Frotz to play all the old text-based interactive fiction games like Zork, HHGG -- basically the Infocom and Z-Code games.
Even better, go back 10-15 years and tell Mac users that a ton of their future counterparts will be excited to have a powerful Command Line Interface.:)
Should have known some it was some obscure, highly intelligent literary allusion.;D
<muttering-to-self>Should I start a South Park is insanely moronic flameware? Should I? Naw, never mind. Substitute allusion to earlier huge story today, instead.</muttering-to-self>
Hey, if I get a subscription to/. can I block dept. phrases?;)
from the they're-not-even-a-real-country-anyway dept.
What is this? Editor-troll-and-flamebait day?
In any case, the movie industry here in sunny SoCal has had this problem for a long time, which is why a lot of productions have been moving up to non-sunny Canada.
You sound like someone who didn't get what he wanted for Christmas.
It's very easy to dismiss futurist predictions because we hear about the misses more than the hits disproportionately to their true ratio. And while there are undoubtedly more of the former than the latter, it's a little much to proclaim all of it horseshit. Better to say, sniff carefully because it's *probably* horseshit.:)
Here's a great site, and a good example of what we're talking about, HEINLEIN'S PREDICTIONS For The Year 2000, in which twenty predictions in 1950 are listed, along with amendations in 1966 and 1980 and other commentary. He bats.500 on the first two, at least: Interplanetary Travel and Contraception.
Now, as far as your bleak
'All this technolgy only makes it easier to kill each other, steal each other land and money, and pretty much lead more misearble meaningless existences than life was 50 years ago.... '
rant goes, I was going to find a science timeline to refute it with a few choice examples, but I think I'll leave it at one: The Internet, which allows rabble-rousing pedants to blow off steam into the air of a virtual domain rather than taking up valuable public park space with their soapboxes and shrill, infantile proclamations.
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Worked for Russia in WW2. It helped that they were mopping up an overextended army that depended on armor that no longer had any that was usable...
Three things worked for Russia in WWII:
Winter
Germany's military-distracting insanities
Russia's willingness to sacrifice millions of workers and soldiers
And from Germany's invasion till the relief of Stalingrad a year and a half later, the Soviets weren't 'pointing them in the direction to roll over anything they come across' so much as digging in and trying not to be rolled over themselves.
And to complete this thread in a Moebius-strip-like way, the use of famous characters from movies in commercials. Example: using HAL in a Y2K Apple Super Bowl commercial.:)
Yeah, you bring up the opposite of product placement: the jarring moment (similar to all movie and TV phone numbers starting with 555) when a product is so obviously fake that it pulls you completely out of the 'reality' of the moment.
I was thinking about this just the other day when I got the DVD of 2001 for my birthday.
Looking online I found this interesting essay on the movie in which it discusses briefly product placement at a time when it wasn't as rampant a phenomenon. Also, this article from Reuters, Product Placement Blatant Not Subtle in Films was interesting; it covers both movies and video games, and how the entertainment industry moved from simple product placement to strategic marketing. Quoting from this:
....Entertainment industry experts say the days of searching the screen for sotto voce references to a brand name are over.
The new world in entertainment marketing leaps out of the screen into the world the audience inhabits, traveling under intriguing titles such as viral marketing, street marketing and wild posting.
I don't know either, but it sounds like one of those, ah, special 'parlors'.;-)
The Golden Penguin Bowl was fun once again. I actually had time to catch a few speeches for a change since OSDN didn't have a 10x10 cage to keep me in this time, but instead had a sales meeting room - with massages.
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On a related subject, you can use the Mac OS X app Frotz to play all the old text-based interactive fiction games like Zork, HHGG -- basically the Infocom and Z-Code games.
Even better, go back 10-15 years and tell Mac users that a ton of their future counterparts will be excited to have a powerful Command Line Interface. :)
Likes American McGee's Alice.
;)
Hates Dock.
Doesn't get why you wouldn't want to have root access always on.
Doesn't like font handling.
Has strange habit of referring to Apple computer engineers and UI designers as 'Steve'
Should have known some it was some obscure, highly intelligent literary allusion. ;D
/. can I block dept. phrases? ;)
<muttering-to-self>Should I start a South Park is insanely moronic flameware? Should I? Naw, never mind. Substitute allusion to earlier huge story today, instead.</muttering-to-self>
Hey, if I get a subscription to
non-sunny??? In the summer months we get 15 hours of daylight. This saves the production crews big bucks.
;)
Dude, we get 15 hours of daylight in the *winter* months here.
And anyhow, production companies get to pay in Canadian dollars, which would save any American big bucks.
from the they're-not-even-a-real-country-anyway dept.
What is this? Editor-troll-and-flamebait day?
In any case, the movie industry here in sunny SoCal has had this problem for a long time, which is why a lot of productions have been moving up to non-sunny Canada.
so old this probably isn't funny anymore
;-)
You were right!
Well it's a better box than the PC he got rid of, despite the shape. ;-)
That's what these guys are for. ;-)
this would be one good reason to disable images
:)
This might also be a good reason to stand up, step slowly away from the computer, and walk outside for a deep breath.
Should they change the name of the company to 'am' or 'is' since they only have one guy now? ;-)
Please try your call again later.
:)
No, it will be 'Press 1 to Abort, press 2 to Redial, or press 3 to Ignore.'
I mean, honestly, for a site that bitches about MS so much, slashdot gives them a helluva lot of free press.
:)
I think it's more a matter of keeping an eye on what the 298.6-kilogram gorilla is up to.
Lucasfilm will be able to shoot Episode III in the damm game :)
;-)
Given Episode I's storyline, that may have already happened in some early beta version.
...much *fewer* spelling errors. ;-)
You sound like someone who didn't get what he wanted for Christmas.
:)
.500 on the first two, at least: Interplanetary Travel and Contraception.
It's very easy to dismiss futurist predictions because we hear about the misses more than the hits disproportionately to their true ratio. And while there are undoubtedly more of the former than the latter, it's a little much to proclaim all of it horseshit. Better to say, sniff carefully because it's *probably* horseshit.
Here's a great site, and a good example of what we're talking about, HEINLEIN'S PREDICTIONS For The Year 2000, in which twenty predictions in 1950 are listed, along with amendations in 1966 and 1980 and other commentary. He bats
Now, as far as your bleak
'All this technolgy only makes it easier to kill each other, steal each other land and money, and pretty much lead more misearble meaningless existences than life was 50 years ago.... '
rant goes, I was going to find a science timeline to refute it with a few choice examples, but I think I'll leave it at one: The Internet, which allows rabble-rousing pedants to blow off steam into the air of a virtual domain rather than taking up valuable public park space with their soapboxes and shrill, infantile proclamations.
Three things worked for Russia in WWII:
And from Germany's invasion till the relief of Stalingrad a year and a half later, the Soviets weren't 'pointing them in the direction to roll over anything they come across' so much as digging in and trying not to be rolled over themselves.
Well, the operating system would be called 'Klingux' and would incorporate pre-emptive strike multi-tasking.
:)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh! If there is an artist out there, *please* start working on a k'Tux logo!
And to complete this thread in a Moebius-strip-like way, the use of famous characters from movies in commercials. Example: using HAL in a Y2K Apple Super Bowl commercial. :)
Yeah, you bring up the opposite of product placement: the jarring moment (similar to all movie and TV phone numbers starting with 555) when a product is so obviously fake that it pulls you completely out of the 'reality' of the moment.
I was thinking about this just the other day when I got the DVD of 2001 for my birthday.
....Entertainment industry experts say the days of searching the screen for sotto voce references to a brand name are over.
Looking online I found this interesting essay on the movie in which it discusses briefly product placement at a time when it wasn't as rampant a phenomenon. Also, this article from Reuters, Product Placement Blatant Not Subtle in Films was interesting; it covers both movies and video games, and how the entertainment industry moved from simple product placement to strategic marketing. Quoting from this:
The new world in entertainment marketing leaps out of the screen into the world the audience inhabits, traveling under intriguing titles such as viral marketing, street marketing and wild posting.
And I don't *even* want to know where the USB ports are. ;-)
I don't know either, but it sounds like one of those, ah, special 'parlors'. ;-)
The Golden Penguin Bowl was fun once again. I actually had time to catch a few speeches for a change since OSDN didn't have a 10x10 cage to keep me in this time, but instead had a sales meeting room - with massages.
The worst is when you get space herpes around Uranus.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
[ducking]
You, my friend, are a god. ROFLMAO!