Anyway, where does one apply for more grants from the Mozilla foundation? Here are the grant amounts for 2007, see if you can read a subliminal message:
I listen to Pandora. It's the same Advert over and over, but it's very short and only comes up once an hour.
My problem is the "landslide effect" or better known as "Just Barely Noticeable." (JBN) that marketers pay LOTS for. Basically, they keep edging in bit by bit until your high quality service is junk, and you've never noticed the change. (An example is, the divet in the bottom of peanut butter is now deeper than it used to be, effectively reducing the amount of peanut butter you buy, making the company MILLIONS)
Soon, Pandora will be no better than the radio stations you listen to on the air. But, I imagine that's EXACTLY what the RIAA wants.
So, let's pretend they have a point... why target games? You could remove every instance of the word "Game" with any other media (Books, Television, Movies, Music, Theater) and it would be the same thing. But no, if they tried to target "Theater" with a bill like this, they'd get laughed out of politics (and rightfully so.)
I'm friends with a guy who works accounting in GM headquarters. The funny thing is, he knew basically, to the quarter, when the nation was going to start receding. Of course, he couldn't really come out and say this, as being an accountant he could easily get charged with insider trading or another white collar crime.
I only credit anyone for calling exactly when it would completely implode. That took brains.
Or luck. After all, every day SOMEBODY wins the lottery. With 6.7 billion people in the world, the "1,000 monkeys randomly pushing typewriters" analogy becomes a lot more relevant.
I like FOSS, I like it a lot in fact. However, I still have some concerns about this.
1) Would the overhead of allocating funds be greater than the reward? (always a question in government bullucracy) 2) How would we be sure the right people get the money, and not 'fakes'? 3) How do we make sure projects continue to be free after they stop getting government funding?
Maybe these issues have been addressed, but most people will (or should) ask these questions, about ANY government subsidization/awards.
Recently, I was going on a road trip and was looking for somethings to keep myself and others entertained. I borrowed a friend's DS and bought a couple games for it. I ended up dropping about $60 on 4-5 games that I had heard of or seen commercials for.
Afterwards, I wished I had skipped it. Only one of the games was played to any degree by anyone. The others were trash/shovelware that got old after 15 minutes. Also, it frustrated the hell out of me that the games featured only 1 save slot, prohibiting anyone from starting new games.
I thought I was back in the stone age of gaming. Until they get with the program, they've lost me as a portable gamer.
I find it very tasteless and absolutely revolting that you think a wonderful person's life and legacy should be spoiled by a grim, remorseful after death.
Please, when I die, make jokes and remember the good times, that's how *I* want to be remembered.
I would be more inclined to agree with you... except that every other Bethseda game had no level cap. Suddenly, we have a level 20 cap that you reach after 10 hours of gameplay (if you were foolish enough to take the XP perks, than even sooner.) Now the "expansion" raises the cap 10 levels a la MMO?
It's the biggest joke I've seen in a game. They didn't *remove* any code from the game, they actually *added* code TO the game, so that you couldn't level any higher.
Not to mention, people have firmly said *NO* to Bethseda DLC before.
It just amazes me how STUPID our governments are nowadays. I mean, we used to put up posters about how "loose lips sink ships" and now we want to trust our "intelligence gathering" to "private" firms that'll inevitably end up in India?
This reminds me of the article about how China is salvaging old consumer microchips, relabeling them as military grade, and selling them to the pentagon as "brand new." I hope it makes people feel better knowing that those lethal weapons and bombs we have cached everywhere have the reliability of your worst gadget ever.
Intelligence and military manufacturing MUST stay within the borders, period.
...this won't work? Or is that redundant because this is slashdot, and people here aren't idiots? I mean seriously, do these bureaucrats ACTUALLY believe sex offenders won't just make more accounts, or are they pretending to do something important(tm)?
While he was waiting, another guy came in with what a mechanic termed as "Piston Slap", loud knocking and excessive engine noise. This was on the same model of truck!
Wow, that's awful! You mean, while at the mechanic, somebody else came in needing work to be done on their car? Oh the humanity!
My father bought a car that was obviously a lemon. It needed work about 4 different times on the same problem, within the first 50k miles of owning the car. After the warranty came up, the problem reoccurred, and he asked the dealership to fix it (which they did.) His make and model is a car that is lauded for it's reliability and performance and very few of them ever have problems. And THIS is a perfect example of why you can't rely on anecdotal evidence.
I think someone needs to remind Sony's marketing department that God of War is about mythological characters...
"Verisimilitude in its literary context is defined as the fact or quality of being verisimilar, the appearance of being true or real; likeness or resemblance of the truth, reality or a factâ(TM)s probability."
In layman's terms, it basically means, "It makes realistic sense, within the context of the fantasy." For example, fanfic where Spock beams himself to Middle Earth, and has a meaningful discussion with Aragorn, before shooting his ray gun at Magneto, is not "Realistic."
Every time I've seen your sig "I am the cheese", I almost want to disregard everything else you've said. I understand that child porn is a legislation gateway for something-nefarious(tm), BUT currently viewing child porn IS NOT illegal. In fact, if you ever serve on the jury for a case about child porn PRODUCER, you may have to view some as evidence. What is illegal is 1) paying for it 2) storing or distributing it 3) creating it. In each of these cases, your helping create supply and/or demand, which does in fact hurt children. Currently, accidentally downloading child porn or viewing is unlikely to attract FBI attention, unless you do it a lot (and how can that be accidental?) I mean, if the FBI acted on that, they'd be arresting huge swaths of 4chan members at a time, since that stuff is (somewhat) frequently posted on message threads. If you do accidentally download it, you are probably tech savvy enough, being a Slashdot poster, to clean out your temporary files.
When it comes right down to it, seeing your signature makes me wonder if you are in fact, a pedophile. If you are, and you've never committed a crime, great! but that's your business. However, it still hurts your reputation to have that out in the open and it muddies the real issues.
Obviously, EVE is going to be a bit unusual here, given its non-fantasy setting. But the thing I find interesting about the EVE numbers is that EVEâ(TM)s players did not get creative with the traits. 91% said the setting was âoespace.â Everyone else said âoesci-fi fantasy.â The end. No long tail of craziness, no outliers, no one guy putting down âoegay.â
I think this reflects on the player base. I've never played Eve, but I have a feeling there's no equivalent of "Naked dancing mailbox elves" or general immature mischief.
Consoles have already merged pack into PCs. The days when you could put in disks and not have installation and patches are gone. The only difference anymore is they are standardized.
When I turn on my Sony or Xbox, all I think to myself is "Why should I keep buying both consoles and new computers?"
When I buy a car, I use it for *years* before reselling it. Also, when I resell it, I've put thousands of miles on it and other wear that makes it not very valuable.
When I buy a game, I play it and sometimes beat it the day I bought it. I also have a lot of incentive to sell it back to gamestop that weekend, since they'll often give you $20 back for it, as opposed to the $3 they'll give you in a month.
When I buy a game, I'll often go for the $5 cheaper used copy, even though it's only a 10% discount. Sure, a new copy is uhm... in an annoying plastic wrap I have to take off. There's ZERO incentive to buy new.
Sorry if I sound especially critical, but almost all MMOs just aren't worth playing. Not only are they expensive ($50 + $15 a month), but they also require huge time demands, so typically people have especially high standards.
If the company is producing three in tandem, I can't see how they could possibly finish all the content and polish an MMO needs.
I don't think they'd hire him as an assembly line worker, but instead an engineer/designer.
Truthfully, I'm not sure how you got modded +4, interesting. It's common sense that people that come up with innovative new ideas get hired into development, not production.
Slashdot Mirror
This subliminal message?
Mode vorpar doom dares, no reboot
I don't get it. Please explain.
No, no, you forgot to carry the 1.
Mordor reboots
Oh no, this is more serious than we thought!
I listen to Pandora. It's the same Advert over and over, but it's very short and only comes up once an hour.
My problem is the "landslide effect" or better known as "Just Barely Noticeable." (JBN) that marketers pay LOTS for. Basically, they keep edging in bit by bit until your high quality service is junk, and you've never noticed the change. (An example is, the divet in the bottom of peanut butter is now deeper than it used to be, effectively reducing the amount of peanut butter you buy, making the company MILLIONS)
Soon, Pandora will be no better than the radio stations you listen to on the air. But, I imagine that's EXACTLY what the RIAA wants.
So, let's pretend they have a point... why target games? You could remove every instance of the word "Game" with any other media (Books, Television, Movies, Music, Theater) and it would be the same thing. But no, if they tried to target "Theater" with a bill like this, they'd get laughed out of politics (and rightfully so.)
"Don't trust anyone over 25!"
I'm friends with a guy who works accounting in GM headquarters. The funny thing is, he knew basically, to the quarter, when the nation was going to start receding. Of course, he couldn't really come out and say this, as being an accountant he could easily get charged with insider trading or another white collar crime.
I only credit anyone for calling exactly when it would completely implode. That took brains.
Or luck. After all, every day SOMEBODY wins the lottery. With 6.7 billion people in the world, the "1,000 monkeys randomly pushing typewriters" analogy becomes a lot more relevant.
I like FOSS, I like it a lot in fact. However, I still have some concerns about this.
1) Would the overhead of allocating funds be greater than the reward? (always a question in government bullucracy)
2) How would we be sure the right people get the money, and not 'fakes'?
3) How do we make sure projects continue to be free after they stop getting government funding?
Maybe these issues have been addressed, but most people will (or should) ask these questions, about ANY government subsidization/awards.
6. Getting to work while it's dark & leaving when it's dark is depressing.
In the upper Midwest, this seems to be par for the course during the winter.
And here in Minnesota, it's depressing, too.
flash carts
/standard rant about Slashdot editors
Recently, I was going on a road trip and was looking for somethings to keep myself and others entertained. I borrowed a friend's DS and bought a couple games for it. I ended up dropping about $60 on 4-5 games that I had heard of or seen commercials for.
Afterwards, I wished I had skipped it. Only one of the games was played to any degree by anyone. The others were trash/shovelware that got old after 15 minutes. Also, it frustrated the hell out of me that the games featured only 1 save slot, prohibiting anyone from starting new games.
I thought I was back in the stone age of gaming. Until they get with the program, they've lost me as a portable gamer.
I find it very tasteless and absolutely revolting that you think a wonderful person's life and legacy should be spoiled by a grim, remorseful after death.
Please, when I die, make jokes and remember the good times, that's how *I* want to be remembered.
I would be more inclined to agree with you... except that every other Bethseda game had no level cap. Suddenly, we have a level 20 cap that you reach after 10 hours of gameplay (if you were foolish enough to take the XP perks, than even sooner.) Now the "expansion" raises the cap 10 levels a la MMO?
It's the biggest joke I've seen in a game. They didn't *remove* any code from the game, they actually *added* code TO the game, so that you couldn't level any higher.
Not to mention, people have firmly said *NO* to Bethseda DLC before.
It just amazes me how STUPID our governments are nowadays. I mean, we used to put up posters about how "loose lips sink ships" and now we want to trust our "intelligence gathering" to "private" firms that'll inevitably end up in India?
This reminds me of the article about how China is salvaging old consumer microchips, relabeling them as military grade, and selling them to the pentagon as "brand new." I hope it makes people feel better knowing that those lethal weapons and bombs we have cached everywhere have the reliability of your worst gadget ever.
Intelligence and military manufacturing MUST stay within the borders, period.
...this won't work? Or is that redundant because this is slashdot, and people here aren't idiots? I mean seriously, do these bureaucrats ACTUALLY believe sex offenders won't just make more accounts, or are they pretending to do something important(tm)?
The feckless youth I see texting in public do not appear to be the sort who employ reason or critical faculties.
Oh, things are much worse than this. Did you know you get charged every time you RECEIVE a text message, even if you never open it?
While he was waiting, another guy came in with what a mechanic termed as "Piston Slap", loud knocking and excessive engine noise. This was on the same model of truck!
Wow, that's awful! You mean, while at the mechanic, somebody else came in needing work to be done on their car? Oh the humanity!
My father bought a car that was obviously a lemon. It needed work about 4 different times on the same problem, within the first 50k miles of owning the car. After the warranty came up, the problem reoccurred, and he asked the dealership to fix it (which they did.) His make and model is a car that is lauded for it's reliability and performance and very few of them ever have problems. And THIS is a perfect example of why you can't rely on anecdotal evidence.
I think someone needs to remind Sony's marketing department that God of War is about mythological characters...
"Verisimilitude in its literary context is defined as the fact or quality of being verisimilar, the appearance of being true or real; likeness or resemblance of the truth, reality or a factâ(TM)s probability."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude
In layman's terms, it basically means, "It makes realistic sense, within the context of the fantasy." For example, fanfic where Spock beams himself to Middle Earth, and has a meaningful discussion with Aragorn, before shooting his ray gun at Magneto, is not "Realistic."
Every time I've seen your sig "I am the cheese", I almost want to disregard everything else you've said. I understand that child porn is a legislation gateway for something-nefarious(tm), BUT currently viewing child porn IS NOT illegal. In fact, if you ever serve on the jury for a case about child porn PRODUCER, you may have to view some as evidence. What is illegal is 1) paying for it 2) storing or distributing it 3) creating it. In each of these cases, your helping create supply and/or demand, which does in fact hurt children. Currently, accidentally downloading child porn or viewing is unlikely to attract FBI attention, unless you do it a lot (and how can that be accidental?) I mean, if the FBI acted on that, they'd be arresting huge swaths of 4chan members at a time, since that stuff is (somewhat) frequently posted on message threads. If you do accidentally download it, you are probably tech savvy enough, being a Slashdot poster, to clean out your temporary files.
When it comes right down to it, seeing your signature makes me wonder if you are in fact, a pedophile. If you are, and you've never committed a crime, great! but that's your business. However, it still hurts your reputation to have that out in the open and it muddies the real issues.
Obviously, EVE is going to be a bit unusual here, given its non-fantasy setting. But the thing I find interesting about the EVE numbers is that EVEâ(TM)s players did not get creative with the traits. 91% said the setting was âoespace.â Everyone else said âoesci-fi fantasy.â The end. No long tail of craziness, no outliers, no one guy putting down âoegay.â
I think this reflects on the player base. I've never played Eve, but I have a feeling there's no equivalent of "Naked dancing mailbox elves" or general immature mischief.
Consoles have already merged pack into PCs. The days when you could put in disks and not have installation and patches are gone. The only difference anymore is they are standardized.
When I turn on my Sony or Xbox, all I think to myself is "Why should I keep buying both consoles and new computers?"
When I buy a car, I use it for *years* before reselling it. Also, when I resell it, I've put thousands of miles on it and other wear that makes it not very valuable.
When I buy a game, I play it and sometimes beat it the day I bought it. I also have a lot of incentive to sell it back to gamestop that weekend, since they'll often give you $20 back for it, as opposed to the $3 they'll give you in a month.
When I buy a game, I'll often go for the $5 cheaper used copy, even though it's only a 10% discount. Sure, a new copy is uhm... in an annoying plastic wrap I have to take off. There's ZERO incentive to buy new.
Sorry if I sound especially critical, but almost all MMOs just aren't worth playing. Not only are they expensive ($50 + $15 a month), but they also require huge time demands, so typically people have especially high standards.
If the company is producing three in tandem, I can't see how they could possibly finish all the content and polish an MMO needs.
Aliens have began the process of converting the majority of the human population to females for their future breeding programmes.
And with the invasion, finally, Duke Nukem Forever will be released!
So he's also the Prince of Darkness? Maybe Vivendi can get him to do another gut wrenching WoW commercial!
/. = free advertising space
(Seriously, wth?)
I don't think they'd hire him as an assembly line worker, but instead an engineer/designer.
Truthfully, I'm not sure how you got modded +4, interesting. It's common sense that people that come up with innovative new ideas get hired into development, not production.