Filthy also thought The Exorcist remake was the scariest fucking movie he'd ever seen, even giving it a 4 out of 5 finger rating.
I didn't think the remake added very much to the original. It was basically the same 30 year old movie with a couple new scenes. Personally I would have given it the middle finger for wasting my time with that warmed over shit.
This reminds me of that movie Blue Crush where the only people in Hawaii seem to be hotel maids, unemployed youth, NFL football stars and professional surfers.
The way most dial-up ISP's work is they expect to share the cost of the lines and bandwidth by selling a certain number of accounts per line. They operate on the assumed basis that not everybody is going to be dialed in all the time.
Your $15 a month (or whatever) you're paying for dial-up does not even come close to covering the cost of the commercial rate phone line that you're tying up. Additionaly the ISP also has to cover the bandwidth, wages and infrastructure needed to make the rest of your Internet connection work. When you're tying up that line 24/hours a day, the ISP is only recovering a small portion of what it is actually costing them.
Only the most dumbed down concept and straight forward message is going to make it through. "Hey, lets buy Timmy a football game."
If you were unfortunate enough to actually watch the joke that was theSpikeTV VGA(Video Game Awards), you'll notice that a lot of the winning titles were as you mention, dumbed down concepts and mainstream pop culture related. Very few of what I thought were really good games even got nominated. An example of the winners:
Game of the Year: Madden NFL 2004
Best Sports Game: Tony Hawk's Underground
Best Animation Game: DOA Beach Volleyball - (ok I'll admit the animation was pretty good)
Best Driving Game: NASCAR Thunder 2004
Best Game Based on a Movie: Enter the Matrix
Best Fighting Game: WWE Smack Down: Here Comes the Pain
I thought the same thing about that statement when I read it. Taken in the context of the mid-nineties, you could replace the word "movie" in Jobs' statement with "song".
That occured to me too. It would would have given his lame article at least something interesting to look at if he had actually fucked up some hardware and took pictures of it.
You're right. When ESR issued this statement his 150,000 shares in VA were worth around 36 million. Under SEC regulations he wasn't able to sell his stock until the following June, at which time VA Linux was worth considerably less. Still, I would wager that in the end he walked away from the crumbling wreckage of VA with at least a few million.
The prevalence of Make Money Fast IPO's during this time attracted a lot of people like ESR who were skilled at bending reality to make non-existant business cases look profitable. I find it amusing that in his statement it sounds like ESR actually thought he deserved the money he got from the VA IPO.
I find it ironic that ESR became an overnight millionaire after selling his VA Linux stock as soon as he recieved it. But then he was curiously silent and low profile when the stock tanked as VA's business model slammed into a hard reality check.
Today, The Cathedral and the Bazaar should be categorized as a joke book. Personally, I think ESR should just take his money and STFU. The general malevolence in the posts on here towards this hypocrite is well deserved.
Good god, don't they teach you guys anything in school? Indians speak English predominantly because the British colonized most of the sub-continent beginning in 1757 until India's partitioning and independence in 1947.
ID will sell pretty much anybody a license to the Quake engines if they have the cash.
It is well known that the original Half-Life made heavy use of components of the original Quake and Quake II engines. It would logically follow that HL2 continues to incorporate Quake technology.
I don't think the two examples you give (banks, online casinos) have parity to a MMOG economic system. In your two examples, the transaction is strictly between the user and the company.
The way I envision a MMOG system, is a transaction between two users with the company as a third party broker that takes a cut of the transaction (like E-Bay, PayPal etc). Obviously, the funding for the transaction would have to have it's root in real world currency (the user's CC or bank account).
This business model has proven to be very successful.
Here's a link to how to make it on this Geoshitties page.
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Have you ever seen the IBM commercial where the engineer shows up to a board meeting and he's got this big ball of connnectors and dongles and shit all connected together? It goes something like this:
CEO: What's that? Engineer: It's a universal adapter for everything. CEO: Everything? Engineer: Yes anything, we've built in support to connect to all possible interfaces. Executive Peon#1: Does it support European outlets? Engineer: Umm... <looks at device in dismay>
This is one of my favorites also. I think it captures the essence of the urban culture of the late 70's era quite well. I didn't think the acting was bad either. Maybe the realistic portrayal of "normal" people wasn't Hollywood enough for the critics.
To me, the movie was all about character development and theme. I think with a bit of plot modifcation, the movie could have actually stood on it's own without the serial killer aspect.
But even with the above restraints, another company could make a Radeon 9700 clone much cheaper, and I don't mean a Chinese sweat shop. I mean, say, a company in Canada making an identical clone manufacturing the 9700 for a cheaper cost with the same quality, selling it for half the price, and still make tons of money off it?
But no confirmation was as spectacular, and tragic He wasn't saying that it was first one, he was pointing out that Hiroshima was the one that most caught global attention on a large scale. You are exactly right that he chose Hiroshima for the drama - he even points it out as this.
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Even when I was in my down and out college years, I never skimped on buying quality bears. One can only cut so many corners.
Filthy also thought The Exorcist remake was the scariest fucking movie he'd ever seen, even giving it a 4 out of 5 finger rating.
I didn't think the remake added very much to the original. It was basically the same 30 year old movie with a couple new scenes. Personally I would have given it the middle finger for wasting my time with that warmed over shit.
This reminds me of that movie Blue Crush where the only people in Hawaii seem to be hotel maids, unemployed youth, NFL football stars and professional surfers.
... so you're saying they need to hire more Indians?
Your $15 a month (or whatever) you're paying for dial-up does not even come close to covering the cost of the commercial rate phone line that you're tying up. Additionaly the ISP also has to cover the bandwidth, wages and infrastructure needed to make the rest of your Internet connection work. When you're tying up that line 24/hours a day, the ISP is only recovering a small portion of what it is actually costing them.
If you were unfortunate enough to actually watch the joke that was theSpikeTV VGA(Video Game Awards), you'll notice that a lot of the winning titles were as you mention, dumbed down concepts and mainstream pop culture related. Very few of what I thought were really good games even got nominated. An example of the winners:
You mean like what SOCAN is trying to do to the music industry in Canada?
I thought the same thing about that statement when I read it. Taken in the context of the mid-nineties, you could replace the word "movie" in Jobs' statement with "song".
That occured to me too. It would would have given his lame article at least something interesting to look at if he had actually fucked up some hardware and took pictures of it.
You're right. When ESR issued this statement his 150,000 shares in VA were worth around 36 million. Under SEC regulations he wasn't able to sell his stock until the following June, at which time VA Linux was worth considerably less. Still, I would wager that in the end he walked away from the crumbling wreckage of VA with at least a few million.
The prevalence of Make Money Fast IPO's during this time attracted a lot of people like ESR who were skilled at bending reality to make non-existant business cases look profitable. I find it amusing that in his statement it sounds like ESR actually thought he deserved the money he got from the VA IPO.
I find it ironic that ESR became an overnight millionaire after selling his VA Linux stock as soon as he recieved it. But then he was curiously silent and low profile when the stock tanked as VA's business model slammed into a hard reality check.
Today, The Cathedral and the Bazaar should be categorized as a joke book. Personally, I think ESR should just take his money and STFU. The general malevolence in the posts on here towards this hypocrite is well deserved.
Good god, don't they teach you guys anything in school? Indians speak English predominantly because the British colonized most of the sub-continent beginning in 1757 until India's partitioning and independence in 1947.
not to mention licensed Quake III engine source
It is well known that the original Half-Life made heavy use of components of the original Quake and Quake II engines. It would logically follow that HL2 continues to incorporate Quake technology.
I don't think the two examples you give (banks, online casinos) have parity to a MMOG economic system. In your two examples, the transaction is strictly between the user and the company.
The way I envision a MMOG system, is a transaction between two users with the company as a third party broker that takes a cut of the transaction (like E-Bay, PayPal etc). Obviously, the funding for the transaction would have to have it's root in real world currency (the user's CC or bank account).
This business model has proven to be very successful.
No, I think he's describing the SlugBot
Here's a link to how to make it on this Geoshitties page.
Have you ever seen the IBM commercial where the engineer shows up to a board meeting and he's got this big ball of connnectors and dongles and shit all connected together? It goes something like this:
CEO: What's that?
Engineer: It's a universal adapter for everything.
CEO: Everything?
Engineer: Yes anything, we've built in support to connect to all possible interfaces.
Executive Peon#1: Does it support European outlets?
Engineer: Umm... <looks at device in dismay>
This is one of my favorites also. I think it captures the essence of the urban culture of the late 70's era quite well. I didn't think the acting was bad either. Maybe the realistic portrayal of "normal" people wasn't Hollywood enough for the critics.
To me, the movie was all about character development and theme. I think with a bit of plot modifcation, the movie could have actually stood on it's own without the serial killer aspect.
You should submit this to mymiserablelife.com
But even with the above restraints, another company could make a Radeon 9700 clone much cheaper, and I don't mean a Chinese sweat shop. I mean, say, a company in Canada making an identical clone manufacturing the 9700 for a cheaper cost with the same quality, selling it for half the price, and still make tons of money off it?
ATI is a Canadian company.
Mainframes will never die.
What else are they going to hack into in the movies?
But no confirmation was as spectacular, and tragic
He wasn't saying that it was first one, he was pointing out that Hiroshima was the one that most caught global attention on a large scale. You are exactly right that he chose Hiroshima for the drama - he even points it out as this.
Haha.. yeah when I was reading his post I was thinking "who the hell is this Noone?"
Go to school. There is no freedom of speach
You should change your name from cryptowhore to hypocrite.