They've got Tricorders and Communicators, but I've never seen them down on a planet using them as PDAs. Pop them back to the ship and they are telling the ship's computer all kinds of useless junk (computer set an alarm for my batleth tournement)
What I'd like to see is a miniture verison of the enterprise's AI in a PDA with Voice recognition. That pda would be an assistant!
www.gamingreport.com and www.enworld.org posted the following rumor. It's not offical, at present, but there has not confirmation or denial from WotC as to the truth of it all.
Well, Wizards of the Coast seems to of take some interesting turns as of late. We have received several tips from readers and have now received several confirmations about some stunning changes at Wizards of the Coast. Here is the break down of all the tips from reliable, anonymous sources.
Recently there was in an internal investigation at Wizards of the Coast which allegedly unearthed a massive fraud operation within the employees. This resulted in the firing of several high level executives. It is alleged that Sr. VP of Production Tom Federline had setup a funneling operation to pipe money out of Wizards' production department and into his own personal accounts. In addition, to the revelation concerning Mr. Federline, the Renton, Washington police department is reportedly filing, or filed, a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Mr. Federline. The investigation apparently did not uncover any misdealing concerning Vince Caluori, however, in an internal company memo Vince announced his departure. Apparently, Vince' is being replaced by a Hasbro representative from the main office and Loren Greenwood, former VP of Sales, is now taking on the duties of COO. The new CEO is based in Rhode Island so what that means for WotC's Washington State future is uncertain. We were passed Vince's internal farewell letter by a tipster. This email is posted below in its entirety.
A little over five years ago I agreed to come to work for one year to help get WOTC over the challenge of acquiring and assimilating TSR. With mixed emotions I am announcing that the "year" is up! It has been a wonderful time for me and I hope for all of you. We have accomplished more then any of us could have ever expected and I leave at the end of this month a healthy and vibrant company. We are the best at what we do and no one can ask for more then that! I cannot express how proud I am of our company and each of you.
I could never leave you if we did not have excellent management ready to take over and lead our company forward to even better times. Chuck Huebner will become our CEO focusing on our relationships with other parts of the corporation and strategic leadership. I have worked closely with Chuck over the past several months, and I know he has the drive and dedication to help build this business.
Loren Greenwood will become EVP and Chief Operating Officer concentrating on the day to day operations of the company. I'm confident that his experience and knowledge of our business will keep us focused on our objectives and on an upward path as you go forward.
This a great pair of managers with complementary skills and the ability and desire required to move us to another level of performance. They deserve your congratulations and need your help. Don't let them down!
During this month we will be transitioning to these new roles and I will move away from day to day decision making but I will give both of them my support and will remain available on an on-going basis for advice and consultation to ensure an effective transition. I hope to have a chance to see each of you during this time but if I don't you know you can always find me enjoying the benefits of being a retired employee in the gym, at the go-kart track or at our great golf tournament.
Best to all of you and thanks for being my co-workers.........It has been great!
Vince
We are currently attempting to get an official word from WotC's press department but have only received no comment or no answer. We will continue to attempt to get an official word.
We have also heard of a few other changes that may very well bode the end of WotC in its current state. There are allegedly deals in the works to move the WotC retail stores to new owners as part of a separate deal. The details are a sketchy as the details of the deal are still being worked out. Apparently this change is going to happen within the next few months if not sooner.
We have received information on other changes in process. However, until we receive confirmation from other sources we will not post these. We will keep you informed as we are able.
This reinforces a fundamental fact of human behaviour: People generally ignore laws.If there is a policeman standing at their elbow, they'll obey the law, but as soon as the policeman is not obviously present, they'll go back to doing whatever they feel is "right".
I can say the same thing about cats and dogs....My cat, Oswin, knows it is wrong to jump on the counters, but the moment my back is to the lasagna - bam - I've got cat hair and sauce....maybe it's not human behaviour but mammal behavior.
If you have another programme scheduled at the time the promo airs, then TiVo will record your scheduled programme and will not record the promo. Your own scheduled recordings always take priority.
and
It does not take up any of your recording capacity - it is stored in a seperate reserved space. You still have 40 hours of recording capacity on a standard TiVo.
and it's not forcing me to watch it....hmmm...why is anyone upset? Heck from the description of the show it sounds like BBC's other show 'one foot in the grave' which I liked....if it forces me to record shows that I probably would be interested in, I've got even less to complain about...
Sometimes when I FF through the ads, I'll see one that catches my eye.
As a TIVO user myself, the most imporant commericals to me are the ones right at the beginning and the commerical right at the end of the commercial break. I'm sort of forced to watch those anyway as I want to watch my show up to the commercial break and continue with my show as soon as possible.
maybe a 'solution' would be to have many shorter commerical breaks. If I see a commerical I like, I might even take off the mute.
(Before TIVO, I'd either tape a show and fast forward or if I was watching live, hit the mute.)
I know it's common for people to become paranoid about using a public toilet for health reasons, but it's absurd
yes, but the article is talking about private toilets, not public toilets. I know I keep my toilet clean at home. It doesn't surprise me that my keyboard at work would be dirtier than my toilet. I don't have the cleaners or cleaners I like at work and getting management to buy them is a bit like pulling teeth...that's why we hire cleaning crews...
Of course a true story which I thought was crazy at the time, I had a manager at blockbuster years ago that required the employees to wipe down their phones after using them. If you didn't wipe them down after each call, you got written up. After a year, it became apparent that we were sending our employees over to other stores because their employees got the flu.
But seriously, I think that has a positive sideeffect, because you have to develope your own filter, which isn't even close to standard (Radio, Television) filters.
True, but I don't think it'll be a personal filter. Political bodies (government, religious, or bussiness)don't want unfiltered access to information. They want us to have to turn to them for our information.
I see the day (or nightmare) were each group creates a skin for their environment. Of course there'll be ways around the skins, but that would be unchristian, or unAmerican, or some other un. If caught getting around the filter, you'll have to do some kind of time for the crime...
Mean while, those who have unrestricted access won't understand why " 600 Nigerians have been killed " is being ignored. They were muslims and your nice christian skin won't let you know about it....or it was an industrial accident and the company skin wants to keep it a secret....
(which seem to take up 50% or more of any show's air time these days)
18 minutes of an hour show is usually commercials.
Before I had my TIVo, I didn't have cable. I was quite happy watching PBS shows like Masterpiece Theater, Nova, or Frontline. Once I got my TIVO, having more channels became a good thing. I never had to worry about nothing being on at the time I wanted to watch. I was always irked when I was paying for the service and there was nothing on to watch.
So Mr. Turner...FYI, kill the PVR and A) you lose a customer (me) and B)I'll watch less TV.
Here's my suggestion: Get better ADs.
I was cracking up watching a toliet paper ad during Frontier House. (and BTW I am so glad we live in the time we do!)
3.) This was X-Box's first release. Lets determine a winner after either a.) MS (or Sony) drop out of the console market or b.) The 2nd or 3rd generation X-Box
agreed. If Microsoft's history is anything to go by then the xbox was doomed to bite the bullet. The Xbox 2 or 3 will decide the market.
Lets face it, the Xbox is exactly what they want. It is designed to take control of the home entertainment environment...take control of us...
they're the Borg and don't believe that fictional final episode of Voyager where they defeated the Borg. Voyager is still lost and there's no stopping the Borg.
why not open up the code for the stuff they don't make money on? heh open up IE, Messenger, etc
Since when don't they make money on IE? Only if you download it yourself is it free. You have to pay for it to be bundled on your Compaq, HP,IBM, etc..
It mentions RedHat. It doesn't mention the PS3. It mentions the GSCube, a cluster of PS2 machines set up as a technology demo. That was shown a year ago; it's not a future product.
hmmm....
"Today I cannot mention more detail of cell processor," he said, noting that it'll be unveiled around 2003 or 2004. He did state, however, that the third generation PlayStation would be based on this technology. That means a PlayStation 3 born and bred to be jacked into the 'net.
It is interesting to note that, at least in Canada, it is illegal to state that you are a 'Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer'. This is because you are then fraudulently representing yourself as an engineer. Microsoft even issued a memo about this a year or two back. That said, you certainly can state that you have passed the MCSE, so long as you do not spell out the 'E'.
yeah, actually the same is true for Texas. I guess it is more of that Calgary/Houston connection....
I wonder if instant messaging is helping reduce the silly email messages sent around the office that could come back to bite someone.
Unless you remember to save the conversation, you'd have nothing and I doubt a saved copy without any timestamps is going to hold up in court.....I think I can make up a conversation as good as anyone else....
2) "Who cares? Linux can easily fill the void left by the loss of Windows."
... which is a thought Microsoft doesn't want to have cross *anyone's* mind. Can you imagine what would happen if Microsoft pulled Windows and the fallout lasted for a few months and then it was over and people found alternatives and nobody cared any more?
Back in 1997, I was technical support at United Parcel Service (UPS) when UPS's union went on strike. It lasted for about a week and a half in effect. The customers still needed to ship packages and that's where companies like FedEx came in. It took UPS a long time to recover and several companies have a policy to ship through various companies so as to not rely on any one company.
The sad thing about the UPS strike is it was a power play Teamsters vs. companies. The Teamsters got approval to strike even before UPS made their offer to the employees. The employees lost because the teamsters had them sign (basicly) the same deal, but lost UPS's sign on bonus of 1500. The whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth. Whether it was from the Teamsters or from UPS management caving into them, I don't know. I left the company a couple of months later.
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Then...
Alien Pr0n!
Why do I need to find another planet for that? I can think of several people in Texas that could pose for that...
have you checked the newsgroups yet?
it's going to be while -- maybe a decade -- before we get to reasonable pricing on downloaded music
Ouch...I'm going to be 40 yrs old when sanity returns....
The article does not talk about cost.....What will they cost?
I have no idea about how much the private section will charge, but the government will charge $0.34 per postage stamp errr....hard drive.
Why doesn't Star Trek have PDAs?
They've got Tricorders and Communicators, but I've never seen them down on a planet using them as PDAs. Pop them back to the ship and they are telling the ship's computer all kinds of useless junk (computer set an alarm for my batleth tournement)
What I'd like to see is a miniture verison of the enterprise's AI in a PDA with Voice recognition. That pda would be an assistant!
www.gamingreport.com and www.enworld.org posted the following rumor. It's not offical, at present, but there has not confirmation or denial from WotC as to the truth of it all.
Well, Wizards of the Coast seems to of take some interesting turns as of late. We have received several tips from readers and have now received several confirmations about some stunning changes at Wizards of the Coast. Here is the break down of all the tips from reliable, anonymous sources.
Recently there was in an internal investigation at Wizards of the Coast which allegedly unearthed a massive fraud operation within the employees. This resulted in the firing of several high level executives. It is alleged that Sr. VP of Production Tom Federline had setup a funneling operation to pipe money out of Wizards' production department and into his own personal accounts. In addition, to the revelation concerning Mr. Federline, the Renton, Washington police department is reportedly filing, or filed, a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Mr. Federline. The investigation apparently did not uncover any misdealing concerning Vince Caluori, however, in an internal company memo Vince announced his departure. Apparently, Vince' is being replaced by a Hasbro representative from the main office and Loren Greenwood, former VP of Sales, is now taking on the duties of COO. The new CEO is based in Rhode Island so what that means for WotC's Washington State future is uncertain. We were passed Vince's internal farewell letter by a tipster. This email is posted below in its entirety.
From: Vince Caluori
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject:
Dear friends and co-workers,
A little over five years ago I agreed to come to work for one year to help get WOTC over the challenge of acquiring and assimilating TSR. With mixed emotions I am announcing that the "year" is up! It has been a wonderful time for me and I hope for all of you. We have accomplished more then any of us could have ever expected and I leave at the end of this month a healthy and vibrant company. We are the best at what we do and no one can ask for more then that! I cannot express how proud I am of our company and each of you.
I could never leave you if we did not have excellent management ready to take over and lead our company forward to even better times. Chuck Huebner will become our CEO focusing on our relationships with other parts of the corporation and strategic leadership. I have worked closely with Chuck over the past several months, and I know he has the drive and dedication to help build this business.
Loren Greenwood will become EVP and Chief Operating Officer concentrating on the day to day operations of the company. I'm confident that his experience and knowledge of our business will keep us focused on our objectives and on an upward path as you go forward.
This a great pair of managers with complementary skills and the ability and desire required to move us to another level of performance. They deserve your congratulations and need your help. Don't let them down!
During this month we will be transitioning to these new roles and I will move away from day to day decision making but I will give both of them my support and will remain available on an on-going basis for advice and consultation to ensure an effective transition. I hope to have a chance to see each of you during this time but if I don't you know you can always find me enjoying the benefits of being a retired employee in the gym, at the go-kart track or at our great golf tournament.
Best to all of you and thanks for being my co-workers.........It has been great!
Vince
We are currently attempting to get an official word from WotC's press department but have only received no comment or no answer. We will continue to attempt to get an official word.
We have also heard of a few other changes that may very well bode the end of WotC in its current state. There are allegedly deals in the works to move the WotC retail stores to new owners as part of a separate deal. The details are a sketchy as the details of the deal are still being worked out. Apparently this change is going to happen within the next few months if not sooner.
We have received information on other changes in process. However, until we receive confirmation from other sources we will not post these. We will keep you informed as we are able.
This reinforces a fundamental fact of human behaviour: People generally ignore laws. If there is a policeman standing at their elbow, they'll obey the law, but as soon as the policeman is not obviously present, they'll go back to doing whatever they feel is "right".
I can say the same thing about cats and dogs....My cat, Oswin, knows it is wrong to jump on the counters, but the moment my back is to the lasagna - bam - I've got cat hair and sauce....maybe it's not human behaviour but mammal behavior.
I wonder what Darwin would say...
Maybe because its so much easier to think about God as a fellow programmer?
I think it is scary. Remember the Noah patch? that was a catastrophe! I had so many users complain about lost data...wives...sheep...
If you have another programme scheduled at the time the promo airs, then TiVo will record your scheduled programme and will not record the promo. Your own scheduled recordings always take priority.
and
It does not take up any of your recording capacity - it is stored in a seperate reserved space. You still have 40 hours of recording capacity on a standard TiVo.
and it's not forcing me to watch it....hmmm...why is anyone upset? Heck from the description of the show it sounds like BBC's other show 'one foot in the grave' which I liked....if it forces me to record shows that I probably would be interested in, I've got even less to complain about...
I don't know about that list...
It didn't even have The Rocky Horror Picture Show and that's been around for ages....
heck, it's been around longer than some of the techs I work with...
Sometimes when I FF through the ads, I'll see one that catches my eye.
As a TIVO user myself, the most imporant commericals to me are the ones right at the beginning and the commerical right at the end of the commercial break. I'm sort of forced to watch those anyway as I want to watch my show up to the commercial break and continue with my show as soon as possible.
maybe a 'solution' would be to have many shorter commerical breaks. If I see a commerical I like, I might even take off the mute.
(Before TIVO, I'd either tape a show and fast forward or if I was watching live, hit the mute.)
I know it's common for people to become paranoid about using a public toilet for health reasons, but it's absurd
yes, but the article is talking about private toilets, not public toilets. I know I keep my toilet clean at home. It doesn't surprise me that my keyboard at work would be dirtier than my toilet. I don't have the cleaners or cleaners I like at work and getting management to buy them is a bit like pulling teeth...that's why we hire cleaning crews...
Of course a true story which I thought was crazy at the time, I had a manager at blockbuster years ago that required the employees to wipe down their phones after using them. If you didn't wipe them down after each call, you got written up. After a year, it became apparent that we were sending our employees over to other stores because their employees got the flu.
But seriously, I think that has a positive sideeffect, because you have to develope your own filter, which isn't even close to standard (Radio, Television) filters.
True, but I don't think it'll be a personal filter. Political bodies (government, religious, or bussiness)don't want unfiltered access to information. They want us to have to turn to them for our information.
I see the day (or nightmare) were each group creates a skin for their environment. Of course there'll be ways around the skins, but that would be unchristian, or unAmerican, or some other un. If caught getting around the filter, you'll have to do some kind of time for the crime...
Mean while, those who have unrestricted access won't understand why " 600 Nigerians have been killed " is being ignored. They were muslims and your nice christian skin won't let you know about it....or it was an industrial accident and the company skin wants to keep it a secret....
Welcome to Cyberpunk
Thanks for the list... /. with updates.
I'm sure Tristrom Cooke's email account is now going to be
Now I know what I'm doing this weekend (i.e. Looking over my library and rating my books)
It might make the 6 grand for a realdoll worth it.
Then again, playing a p0rn0 in the background probably does the same thing....
just a guess, but maybe it got the rating because of the skin revealing wrestling scene...
which of course was totally different than how it really happens...
(which seem to take up 50% or more of any show's air time these days)
18 minutes of an hour show is usually commercials.
Before I had my TIVo, I didn't have cable. I was quite happy watching PBS shows like Masterpiece Theater, Nova, or Frontline. Once I got my TIVO, having more channels became a good thing. I never had to worry about nothing being on at the time I wanted to watch. I was always irked when I was paying for the service and there was nothing on to watch.
So Mr. Turner...FYI, kill the PVR and A) you lose a customer (me) and B)I'll watch less TV.
Here's my suggestion: Get better ADs.
I was cracking up watching a toliet paper ad during Frontier House. (and BTW I am so glad we live in the time we do!)
If they believe it should be listed, they should have the courage to list it themselves.
I disagree. Google has the correct proceedure. I don't want individual companies taken down simply because they can't afford the legal fight...
If it was just google doing this, I would have a problem. However I think google has shown other companies how to handle these type of issues....
If they brought that ingenuity to doing something worthwhile, who knows what they could do...
/.'ed to death. I'm sure someone would pick them up for their creativeness.
exactly, so they should put in their resumes that they had their hacked c64
of this fully operational slashdotting!
Of course, someone will come up and say "a slashdotting is insignificant next to the power of a Google Cache."
How long have you been waiting to say that one?
3.) This was X-Box's first release. Lets determine a winner after either a.) MS (or Sony) drop out of the console market or b.) The 2nd or 3rd generation X-Box
agreed. If Microsoft's history is anything to go by then the xbox was doomed to bite the bullet. The Xbox 2 or 3 will decide the market.
Lets face it, the Xbox is exactly what they want. It is designed to take control of the home entertainment environment...take control of us...
they're the Borg and don't believe that fictional final episode of Voyager where they defeated the Borg. Voyager is still lost and there's no stopping the Borg.
why not open up the code for the stuff they don't make money on? heh open up IE, Messenger, etc
Since when don't they make money on IE? Only if you download it yourself is it free. You have to pay for it to be bundled on your Compaq, HP,IBM, etc..
which of course you don't have a choice in...
It mentions RedHat. It doesn't mention the PS3. It mentions the GSCube, a cluster of PS2 machines set up as a technology demo. That was shown a year ago; it's not a future product.
hmmm....
"Today I cannot mention more detail of cell processor," he said, noting that it'll be unveiled around 2003 or 2004. He did state, however, that the third generation PlayStation would be based on this technology. That means a PlayStation 3 born and bred to be jacked into the 'net.
no mention of ps3...blast this slashdot article!
It is interesting to note that, at least in Canada, it is illegal to state that you are a 'Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer'. This is because you are then fraudulently representing yourself as an engineer. Microsoft even issued a memo about this a year or two back. That said, you certainly can state that you have passed the MCSE, so long as you do not spell out the 'E'.
yeah, actually the same is true for Texas. I guess it is more of that Calgary/Houston connection....
I wonder if instant messaging is helping reduce the silly email messages sent around the office that could come back to bite someone.
Unless you remember to save the conversation, you'd have nothing and I doubt a saved copy without any timestamps is going to hold up in court.....I think I can make up a conversation as good as anyone else....
2) "Who cares? Linux can easily fill the void left by the loss of Windows."
... which is a thought Microsoft doesn't want to have cross *anyone's* mind. Can you imagine what would happen if Microsoft pulled Windows and the fallout lasted for a few months and then it was over and people found alternatives and nobody cared any more?
Back in 1997, I was technical support at United Parcel Service (UPS) when UPS's union went on strike. It lasted for about a week and a half in effect. The customers still needed to ship packages and that's where companies like FedEx came in. It took UPS a long time to recover and several companies have a policy to ship through various companies so as to not rely on any one company.
The sad thing about the UPS strike is it was a power play Teamsters vs. companies. The Teamsters got approval to strike even before UPS made their offer to the employees. The employees lost because the teamsters had them sign (basicly) the same deal, but lost UPS's sign on bonus of 1500. The whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth. Whether it was from the Teamsters or from UPS management caving into them, I don't know. I left the company a couple of months later.