I think the term you are looking for is "Mooninites". Observe this transcript of part of a recent visit by some of their more advanced citizens.
ignignokt: we are the mooninites and our culture is advanced beyond all that you can possibly comprehend with 100% of your brain frylock: oh is that so and what is so advanced about it ignignokt: well for 1 thing the moon has 1/3 less gravity than your earth i don't know if you can understand that but our vertical leap is beyond all measurement frylock: so what your saying is your culture is more advanced because you can jump higher? ignignokt: yes observe (jumps) ignignokt: its not working here err come in here help me explain our advanced ways hurry err: did you mention the spelling? ignignokt: yes we're excellent spellers challenge me err: yes challenge us both
That completely turns my world upside down! I think this revelation must have been what Keanu was thinking about to get his perfect udderance of "whoa" in the Matrix.
How can this be modded informative? References to this article and others come up EVERY TIME Card is mentioned in a/. article. What is interesting is that people are so ready to discount anything a person does if their political/ideological/religous views differ from them. I am really finding it difficult to see the relevance of Card's "insane rightwing religious" fantatisism to the fact that he is putting out a quarterly Sci-Fi magazine.
Well, there are a lot more like the above poster, its just that most of us have grown tired of the dogmatic belief in the tech community that belief in God = brain damage. I have to agree with TMM that this is a matter of faith and should not be treated as a scientific theory.
Science implies acceptance based on provable fact. Faith implies acceptance in the absence of provable evidence.
Was being harassed by Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and all the rest not enough? Now they need to go drilling into the earth to find even more monsters to rampage their countryside?
Recent historic documents have come to light that France is still not convinced of the threat posed by Hitler and should be given more time to come in line with UN Resolutions!
(yeah, probably flamebait, but I thought it was funny)
At this point, its a matter of keeping up with the Jones'. The security industry (I guess any industry for that matter) is now all about "fad features". This is driven primarily by the people selling the software. Company A decides to create a spyware plugin and uses that extra feature to defeat company B. It works, so they continue to use the same ploy over and over again. Now, industry magazines start seeing all of these sales being driven by this new widget so they write an article on it. Next thing you know, said PHB sees a blurb on the front page of a industry rag and decides, "of course, I too must have spyware" and now it becomes a check box on an evaluation list. This of course forces company B to start producing a spyware product that, even if it is inferior to company A's offering, lets them now mark off that feature checkbox and not loose business to company A.
Granted, this is an over simplification of the process, but its basically why Symantec would waste their time. Now why is spy-bot or some other rock solid spyware solution not an option in the corp world? Its really what some would call a Catch 22*, spy-bot doesn't have enterprise wide deployments that they can reference, so they can't get someone to deploy it industry wide.
*I use "some would call" because I keep putting down the book before I read the actual part where Catch 22 is mentioned.
So let me get this straight: We can make fun of all the misspeaking that Dubya does, but we can't mock Gore for saying "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."? Come on, enough of this partisan hackery (thank you John Stewart), lets spread the humor at the expense of politicians around on both sides of the fence.
Lets all go protest Blizzard and never buy one of their incredibly entertaining games again!
C'mon, how realistic is that? And why should we stop buying all their games, because they are protecting their work? Even if it was Blizzard behind the cease and desist and not their parent company, I really can't say I blame them. If I were Blizzard, I would have rolled out of my bed lined with $100 bills and told FreeCraft to knock it off too.
You can't tell me that *Craft doesn't immediately make you think of one of the fine Blizzard games that we have all enjoyed at one LAN party or another.
I agree that there should be opensource gaming projects out there, but seriously, think before you go a name them. Someone create an open source project call Age of Freepires and I bet you it will get shut down sooner than you can say Anti-trust Suit.
Blizzard is a company that survives by making money and protecting its investment. If I remember correctly, that is kinda one of the reasons we live in a capitalist society.
To quote "Bill Gates" in the Simpsons "I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks"
At what point in this article was anything aside from video games mentioned? For all we know, the poster could be making up the reference to Ender's game. Look more carefully at the articles posted at/. and compare them with the poster's summary.
Since my new Sims expansion pack, "Sims: The Sims Go U.N.", has just gone gold, I should be raking in the bucks in Germany.
In this expansion pack you guide your Sims through a model UN, allowing you to bicker and argue to your heart's content without actually doing anything productive!
Madman building power in the middle east? Lets give him a little time to comply to your resolutions, it worked with that Hitler guy, didn't it?
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I think the term you are looking for is "Mooninites". Observe this transcript of part of a recent visit by some of their more advanced citizens.
ignignokt: we are the mooninites and our culture is advanced beyond all that you can possibly comprehend with 100% of your brain
frylock: oh is that so and what is so advanced about it
ignignokt: well for 1 thing the moon has 1/3 less gravity than your earth i don't know if you can understand that but our vertical leap is beyond all measurement
frylock: so what your saying is your culture is more advanced because you can jump higher?
ignignokt: yes observe
(jumps)
ignignokt: its not working here err come in here help me explain our advanced ways hurry
err: did you mention the spelling?
ignignokt: yes we're excellent spellers challenge me
err: yes challenge us both
That completely turns my world upside down! I think this revelation must have been what Keanu was thinking about to get his perfect udderance of "whoa" in the Matrix.
How can this be modded informative? References to this article and others come up EVERY TIME Card is mentioned in a /. article. What is interesting is that people are so ready to discount anything a person does if their political/ideological/religous views differ from them. I am really finding it difficult to see the relevance of Card's "insane rightwing religious" fantatisism to the fact that he is putting out a quarterly Sci-Fi magazine.
How is it that a comment copied from EVERY OTHER /. story in which Card is mentioned is deemed "Interesting"? Come on meta-moderators, get to work!
Well said.
Well, there are a lot more like the above poster, its just that most of us have grown tired of the dogmatic belief in the tech community that belief in God = brain damage. I have to agree with TMM that this is a matter of faith and should not be treated as a scientific theory.
Science implies acceptance based on provable fact. Faith implies acceptance in the absence of provable evidence.
...my GIRL robot. This will be the best prom ever...
Was being harassed by Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and all the rest not enough? Now they need to go drilling into the earth to find even more monsters to rampage their countryside?
Recent historic documents have come to light that France is still not convinced of the threat posed by Hitler and should be given more time to come in line with UN Resolutions!
(yeah, probably flamebait, but I thought it was funny)
At this point, its a matter of keeping up with the Jones'. The security industry (I guess any industry for that matter) is now all about "fad features". This is driven primarily by the people selling the software. Company A decides to create a spyware plugin and uses that extra feature to defeat company B. It works, so they continue to use the same ploy over and over again. Now, industry magazines start seeing all of these sales being driven by this new widget so they write an article on it. Next thing you know, said PHB sees a blurb on the front page of a industry rag and decides, "of course, I too must have spyware" and now it becomes a check box on an evaluation list. This of course forces company B to start producing a spyware product that, even if it is inferior to company A's offering, lets them now mark off that feature checkbox and not loose business to company A.
Granted, this is an over simplification of the process, but its basically why Symantec would waste their time. Now why is spy-bot or some other rock solid spyware solution not an option in the corp world? Its really what some would call a Catch 22*, spy-bot doesn't have enterprise wide deployments that they can reference, so they can't get someone to deploy it industry wide.
*I use "some would call" because I keep putting down the book before I read the actual part where Catch 22 is mentioned.
shh...don't let them know you are on to them ;)
Oh wait, you posted Anonymously. Bah, show some backbone!
...and no one is around to hear it, will anyone care?
If only there was a Dumbass Act that this guy could be tried under.
Looks like you were right, you made a joke about slashdot's "blue" nature and were modded as a Troll. Too funny.
So let me get this straight: We can make fun of all the misspeaking that Dubya does, but we can't mock Gore for saying "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."? Come on, enough of this partisan hackery (thank you John Stewart), lets spread the humor at the expense of politicians around on both sides of the fence.
Sounds like an "I read it just for the articles" comment.
Don't you love how a request for humorous/annoying tech support stories degrades into a correction of your word usage?
Ahh slashdot
Well on that note, would poor hygene count as chemical and biological weapons?
(sorry, I couldn't help it, the joke had to be made)
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Lets all go protest Blizzard and never buy one of their incredibly entertaining games again!
C'mon, how realistic is that? And why should we stop buying all their games, because they are protecting their work? Even if it was Blizzard behind the cease and desist and not their parent company, I really can't say I blame them. If I were Blizzard, I would have rolled out of my bed lined with $100 bills and told FreeCraft to knock it off too.
You can't tell me that *Craft doesn't immediately make you think of one of the fine Blizzard games that we have all enjoyed at one LAN party or another.
I agree that there should be opensource gaming projects out there, but seriously, think before you go a name them. Someone create an open source project call Age of Freepires and I bet you it will get shut down sooner than you can say Anti-trust Suit.
Blizzard is a company that survives by making money and protecting its investment. If I remember correctly, that is kinda one of the reasons we live in a capitalist society.
To quote "Bill Gates" in the Simpsons "I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks"
Actually, the war in Iraq has nothing to do with my anit-French leaning predates the current situation by over a decade.
I hated the French before it was cool!
What we need are fewer Cisco advertisements on the slash
At what point in this article was anything aside from video games mentioned? For all we know, the poster could be making up the reference to Ender's game. Look more carefully at the articles posted at /. and compare them with the poster's summary.
Since my new Sims expansion pack, "Sims: The Sims Go U.N.", has just gone gold, I should be raking in the bucks in Germany.
In this expansion pack you guide your Sims through a model UN, allowing you to bicker and argue to your heart's content without actually doing anything productive!
Madman building power in the middle east? Lets give him a little time to comply to your resolutions, it worked with that Hitler guy, didn't it?
Did anyone else hear a little voice screaming "THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!" as they read this?
Seriously, every other month it's either the music industry or Hollywood going out of business within 3 years.
Or within 7 days if they watch some sucky cursed video.