Exactly. The whole thing is kind of creepy. I mean, it would be like having kids in British schools sing 'God Save The Queen' every morning. And that would be patently ridiculous. Nobody knows the words anyway!
the only time i've ever been "affected" by an alternate form of a book is with the (wonderful) tape of Hitchhikers Guide, with Sir Doug reading. "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE" I can't read that book without imagining his version of every single character's voice.
Yeah! Let's go down to plain text delivered over 300 baud modems! The way it was in the good old days, right? Sounds like a good way to drive the net into a geeks-only private club.
Oh come on, Amtrak are mere amateurs at screwing up. For a real fuck-up you need to get Railtrack involved. They'll contract all the maintenance out to some other firm who'll get inexperienced people to look at it once in a blue moon, and announce massive profits just after a major train crash with several fatalities.
Point 4 - Playing Computer Games is physically unhealthy if you don't take time out to exercise!
I mean, you do martial arts, so you're going to be in good condition. Too many people out there spend all their time glued to a computer, so they're not going to be in good condition.
The people that will one day run everything are the nerds and geeks of high schools today, and the star high school athletes will be the guy installing my pool or re-shingling my roof in 10 years.
Nah. The nerds and geeks of high schools today will spend their futures bitching about stuff on the internet and getting increasingly lardy.
They will not be the people who run everything, as those will be the people who know stuff and do stuff and have good social and hygiene skills.
Amen to that. Perl just has to be the most annoying 'language' (if gibberish can be held to be a language) I've ever had to use, it's like it was cobbled together out of scraps of this and bits of that in a completely haphazard and random fashion. Eugh! Hate Perl. Hate it!
Look. These are rumours, which originate on Aint It Cool News - or as an SF journalist of my acquaintance calls it, "Ain't It Complete Shit Harry Just Made Up".
Dogtown and Z-Boys is a wonderful documentary, exactly the kind they'll be making about hackers in two or three decades.
Yeah. Right.
Skateboarding is energetic, fast, exciting and cool.
Hacking is none of the above.
A bunch of fit healthy looking people zipping around and pulling neat stunts looks good on film.
An obese guy staring at a computer screen in his parents' basement doesn't look good. On film or in real life!
Katz lives in a world of his own...
Why are technological advances a boon?
Why do we need to advance technologically as a species?
You can't be serious...
If you ARE serious, then try this.
Find a cave somewhere remote. Live there for a year, with no clothes, no tools, no artificial light or heat and live off rainwater, berries, and any animals you can catch and cook on the fire you made by banging the rocks together (No. Wait. Fire was a technological advance. It's raw food for you, buddy-boy).
Go on, do it. Then ask us why technological advances are a boon and why we need to advance technologically as a species.
Or take this.
Ever since man discovered how to make fire, and how to fashion flint into tools and weapons, we have been advancing technologically as a species.
If we hadn't, we'd still be living in caves with a life expectancy of about 25, or some other species would have finished us off.
So if that was a serious question, you're an idiot.
Oh. Right. I don't worship at the altar of hideously outdated gaming systems which nobody in their right mind would buy at any price, and so I'm a troll?
I can just see hordes of children being really unhappy when their grannies buy them one of these instead of the PS/2CubeBox game they wanted...
I thought Infogrames were going to be producing new games as Atari, not just raiding the back catalogue to put out shite games nobody wants - just like other recent incarnations.
It's well past the time Atari was allowed to die, I think.
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The people I saw talking about this at a Fortean Times convention some years ago claimed the Shroud was a photograph taken by Leonardo da Vinci...
Exactly. The whole thing is kind of creepy. I mean, it would be like having kids in British schools sing 'God Save The Queen' every morning. And that would be patently ridiculous. Nobody knows the words anyway!
You mean like Grand Theft Auto 3?
Unless they port it to the GameBoy Advance. There's already been one PC adventure game (Broken Sword) ported to the GBA, so there's a precedent.
At times like this, I really wish I had mod points so I could mod this zealot with a pole up his arse back to the stone age...
Isn't Gary Gilmore a serial killer? (or rather was, he was executer - hence the Sham 69 song "Gary Gilmore's eyes").
That wasn't a Sham 69 song. It was by The Adverts.
That's because dope dealers don't give billions to the political parties each year and big business does...
Yeah! Let's go down to plain text delivered over 300 baud modems! The way it was in the good old days, right?
Sounds like a good way to drive the net into a geeks-only private club.
I teleported home one night,
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie's heart away,
And I got Sidney's leg.
The sad thing is, BAE wanted to build a supersonic capable Harrier II back in the 70's, but the government wouldn't let them...
It'll be a sad day when the Harriers go out of service, they really are wonderful aircraft.
The RAF recently did a visibility survey to decide what colour to paint their training aircraft to avoid 'near misses'.
They found that an all-black aircraft was more easily seen than any other colour.
Oh come on, Amtrak are mere amateurs at screwing up. For a real fuck-up you need to get Railtrack involved. They'll contract all the maintenance out to some other firm who'll get inexperienced people to look at it once in a blue moon, and announce massive profits just after a major train crash with several fatalities.
Well, that's the way we do it in England...
Are you aware that you have such a fucking stupid name, and have you ever thought of changing it?
Ransom! That's not a name, it's a demand!
Point 4 - Playing Computer Games is physically unhealthy if you don't take time out to exercise!
I mean, you do martial arts, so you're going to be in good condition. Too many people out there spend all their time glued to a computer, so they're not going to be in good condition.
The people that will one day run everything are the nerds and geeks of high schools today, and the star high school athletes will be the guy installing my pool or re-shingling my roof in 10 years. Nah. The nerds and geeks of high schools today will spend their futures bitching about stuff on the internet and getting increasingly lardy.
They will not be the people who run everything, as those will be the people who know stuff and do stuff and have good social and hygiene skills.
Amen to that. Perl just has to be the most annoying 'language' (if gibberish can be held to be a language) I've ever had to use, it's like it was cobbled together out of scraps of this and bits of that in a completely haphazard and random fashion. Eugh!
Hate Perl. Hate it!
AND I SUPPOSE THESE ARE FORTISSIMO LETTERS?
Head up arse syndrome strikes again...
But then, this was found on Wired.
Look. These are rumours, which originate on Aint It Cool News - or as an SF journalist of my acquaintance calls it, "Ain't It Complete Shit Harry Just Made Up".
Talk to me when the DVDs are actually released...
Skateboarding is energetic, fast, exciting and cool.
Hacking is none of the above.
A bunch of fit healthy looking people zipping around and pulling neat stunts looks good on film.
An obese guy staring at a computer screen in his parents' basement doesn't look good. On film or in real life!
Katz lives in a world of his own...
Perdido Street Station won the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke award for the best science fiction novel of the year.
You can't be serious...
If you ARE serious, then try this. Find a cave somewhere remote. Live there for a year, with no clothes, no tools, no artificial light or heat and live off rainwater, berries, and any animals you can catch and cook on the fire you made by banging the rocks together (No. Wait. Fire was a technological advance. It's raw food for you, buddy-boy).
Go on, do it. Then ask us why technological advances are a boon and why we need to advance technologically as a species.
Or take this.
Ever since man discovered how to make fire, and how to fashion flint into tools and weapons, we have been advancing technologically as a species.
If we hadn't, we'd still be living in caves with a life expectancy of about 25, or some other species would have finished us off.
So if that was a serious question, you're an idiot.
Oh. Right. I don't worship at the altar of hideously outdated gaming systems which nobody in their right mind would buy at any price, and so I'm a troll?
The Slashdot Hive Mind strikes again!
I can just see hordes of children being really unhappy when their grannies buy them one of these instead of the PS/2CubeBox game they wanted...
I thought Infogrames were going to be producing new games as Atari, not just raiding the back catalogue to put out shite games nobody wants - just like other recent incarnations.
It's well past the time Atari was allowed to die, I think.
No, it's a type of motor car