They couldn't do any better than a character from an un-funny series that ended 13 years ago? If anything this brilliant marketing fail makes me not want to use the Google wallet.
So it begins. A group of fans takes some fictional, but well grounded, movie dialogue, expands that out into a language. The language gets tacked onto a particular Con culture and both grow with some vigour. With this opera, we are seeing the creation of a fine arts and by extension, philosophy. A hundred years from now when we have followed Hawking's command to get off the planet to survive, will humankind see Klingon enclaves on Mars? Are we in fact creating our own antagonists? Add a little religiosity to the mix and a future Terran space navy could find itself fighting D7s manned by biologically Human but culturally Klingon beings.
Gene would be happy he got the appearance right the first time. Or perhaps this is what he was getting at all along - we are Klingons.
"2: People who have tried SL and left unimpressed have little clue what goes on there and are therefore little more qualified to make informed judgements of what goes on there."
No, people who have tried SL and left unimpressed are making an judgement informed by their experience. To say that they had little clue about what goes on there simply means that Linden and the cabal of initiates in the know have done a piss poor job in exposing "what goes on there" in a simple, attractive and easy to use fashion.
The rest of your post was interesting - I hadn't thought of SL's possible uses by the disabled community.
Tried it - just a vacant boring wasteland with a crappy interface. Even the hookers were uninspiring. The text MUDs I used to play had more users, more interesting content and were easier to use.
I did an English degree in university.
I'm currently working as an analyst and getting training as I go in coding and SQL. I started with my current employer as a tier 1 phone jockey. When that contract dried up, I laid my resume on every desk I could find and got extended for a documentation project. Part of that project involved document QA and some basic software QA. When the tech support work restarted, I went back as a tier 1 but because of my experience, acted as a tier 2 most of the time and as a specialist for the documentation project I had worked on earlier. I worked on improving my tech skills and as a result closed more tickets than most tier 2s. Again the support contract ended and it was back to documentation. However, this time I got tagged for more tech QA and reporting. Having worked on documentation, I proved that I could write clearly and understandably - that lead to more reporting work which lead to analysis work which lead to data gathering and thereby coding.
My most valuable two skills in all this were an active decision to go promote myself and an ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical users. My generally considered by the geeks laughable arts degree coupled with a hobbyists interest in IT has put me in a job that straddles both worlds.
Look at your strengths, see how they relate to what you want to do and sell them as hard as you can. However, you have to demonstrate willlingness to fill in any gaps in your knowledge too - tht where the "No but I can learn" quoted so often in previous posts comes in.
My Uncle was an officer in the Royal Engineers. He being a rather calm and mellow person , my mother asked him how he could shout at people for having a button undone. He replied, "My dear, I mention to the Sergeant that Johnson's button is undone, walk away, and the problem is taken care of."
(Yeah my mum's a bit clueless on things military
As an infantry corporal - I just yelled at them myself - before the officer showed up to notice.
30+ years ago the boys in my Grade 6 class went on a trip to Northern Telecom - no girls of course that sciencey stuff being too hard for their pretty little heads. Our teacher's wife worked there in HR so we got the "backstage tour". One of the techs showed us an enormous monitor - must have been 30" easy which they used to display and work on chip masks. Naturally chip masks are pretty boring to look at so the tech threw up a picture of a steam locomotive and proceeded to zoom in showing how it was detailed down to the last rivet. While we're ooohing and aaahing over the choo choo train, our teacher says he's off to go talk to his wife. Once he leaves, the tech asks what grade we're all in then pops up a picture of... A Nekkid Woman! and proceeds to zoom in and out on all the good bits. Believe me a 30" aerola is pretty un-nerving to a pack of 12 year olds.
Yes folks, my first pron was raster driven, server based full frontal nudity.
Now get off my lawn!
More so than that, Rufus' world is now a little bigger and his mind a little less narrow. A civil war in South America or a famine in Africa will have more meaning to him because it's not happening to some faceless other, it's happening to his friends.
Mr. Borges, don't bother trying to catalogue them at all. Just take each one off the shelf until you find the book that tells you everything you need to know. Just don't get thrown off the edge of the hexagon for being a heretic.
From TFA:
FENG-HSIUNG HSU earned a Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University,... Hsu now manages the platforms and devices center of Microsoft Research Asia, in Beijing.
...
To experiment with a Go program, readers can download GNU Go at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo. Offered by the Free Software Foundation, in Boston, this free program has performed well in recent computer Go events.
Sorry, Godwin's doesn't apply as Germany's facist past is relevant to the thread especially where TFA talks about matching IPs to names as a violation of basic rights.
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Awesome bit of writing this.
Green Chili - Recipe? Please? Pretty Please? :-)
They couldn't do any better than a character from an un-funny series that ended 13 years ago? If anything this brilliant marketing fail makes me not want to use the Google wallet.
Giant D20 cast from dice donated by interested gamers from across the world.
So it begins. A group of fans takes some fictional, but well grounded, movie dialogue, expands that out into a language. The language gets tacked onto a particular Con culture and both grow with some vigour. With this opera, we are seeing the creation of a fine arts and by extension, philosophy. A hundred years from now when we have followed Hawking's command to get off the planet to survive, will humankind see Klingon enclaves on Mars? Are we in fact creating our own antagonists? Add a little religiosity to the mix and a future Terran space navy could find itself fighting D7s manned by biologically Human but culturally Klingon beings. Gene would be happy he got the appearance right the first time. Or perhaps this is what he was getting at all along - we are Klingons.
No, people who have tried SL and left unimpressed are making an judgement informed by their experience. To say that they had little clue about what goes on there simply means that Linden and the cabal of initiates in the know have done a piss poor job in exposing "what goes on there" in a simple, attractive and easy to use fashion.
The rest of your post was interesting - I hadn't thought of SL's possible uses by the disabled community.
Tried it - just a vacant boring wasteland with a crappy interface. Even the hookers were uninspiring. The text MUDs I used to play had more users, more interesting content and were easier to use.
Like preaching to the choir brother!
I did an English degree in university. I'm currently working as an analyst and getting training as I go in coding and SQL. I started with my current employer as a tier 1 phone jockey. When that contract dried up, I laid my resume on every desk I could find and got extended for a documentation project. Part of that project involved document QA and some basic software QA. When the tech support work restarted, I went back as a tier 1 but because of my experience, acted as a tier 2 most of the time and as a specialist for the documentation project I had worked on earlier. I worked on improving my tech skills and as a result closed more tickets than most tier 2s. Again the support contract ended and it was back to documentation. However, this time I got tagged for more tech QA and reporting. Having worked on documentation, I proved that I could write clearly and understandably - that lead to more reporting work which lead to analysis work which lead to data gathering and thereby coding. My most valuable two skills in all this were an active decision to go promote myself and an ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical users. My generally considered by the geeks laughable arts degree coupled with a hobbyists interest in IT has put me in a job that straddles both worlds. Look at your strengths, see how they relate to what you want to do and sell them as hard as you can. However, you have to demonstrate willlingness to fill in any gaps in your knowledge too - tht where the "No but I can learn" quoted so often in previous posts comes in.
Don't email - spend a stamp and snail mail your comments.
(Yeah my mum's a bit clueless on things military
As an infantry corporal - I just yelled at them myself - before the officer showed up to notice.
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/products/notebooks/t1100plus/
And yes it ran linux (ELKS)
Beat that ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtrooper
Which also means the term is pre-1923.
"Today, mainframe sales are a tiny fraction of the personal computer market."
I would certainly hope so.
That's never stopped the church before.....
Running in core memory. Mind-boggling.
FlightGear - Linux and Windows, great modelling and strong developer community. Speech and beer free too. http://www.flightgear.org/
For what - the bolour supplment?
30+ years ago the boys in my Grade 6 class went on a trip to Northern Telecom - no girls of course that sciencey stuff being too hard for their pretty little heads. Our teacher's wife worked there in HR so we got the "backstage tour". One of the techs showed us an enormous monitor - must have been 30" easy which they used to display and work on chip masks. Naturally chip masks are pretty boring to look at so the tech threw up a picture of a steam locomotive and proceeded to zoom in showing how it was detailed down to the last rivet. While we're ooohing and aaahing over the choo choo train, our teacher says he's off to go talk to his wife. Once he leaves, the tech asks what grade we're all in then pops up a picture of ... A Nekkid Woman! and proceeds to zoom in and out on all the good bits. Believe me a 30" aerola is pretty un-nerving to a pack of 12 year olds.
Yes folks, my first pron was raster driven, server based full frontal nudity.
Now get off my lawn!
More so than that, Rufus' world is now a little bigger and his mind a little less narrow. A civil war in South America or a famine in Africa will have more meaning to him because it's not happening to some faceless other, it's happening to his friends.
Mr. Borges, don't bother trying to catalogue them at all. Just take each one off the shelf until you find the book that tells you everything you need to know. Just don't get thrown off the edge of the hexagon for being a heretic.
Sorry Eurodude - They're Canadian not American. They live in my neighbourhood.
From TFA: ...
...
FENG-HSIUNG HSU earned a Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University,
Hsu now manages the platforms and devices center of Microsoft Research Asia, in Beijing.
To experiment with a Go program, readers can download GNU Go at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo. Offered by the Free Software Foundation, in Boston, this free program has performed well in recent computer Go events.
Sorry, Godwin's doesn't apply as Germany's facist past is relevant to the thread especially where TFA talks about matching IPs to names as a violation of basic rights.
My beloved keyboard is an IBM Model 12 - I bask in your envy.....