I heard about this technology being used in an American emergency room TWO YEARS AGO. Maybe not exactly this. Maybe it was ten minutes instead of one minute. But still, why aren't machines like this in more widespread use yet?
What if it's more than just hunger pangs? What if even though you ate hearty meals all day, you still feel like you're going to pass out come dinner time? Or just irritable and woozy? What do you do then?
1. Post an article on Slashdot entitled "How Habbo Succeeded" 2. Have 99% of visitors wonder WTF is Habbo? 3. 1% of viewers click on said article, read it, decide they want to try it 4. Realize 1% of Slashdot users is a sizeable number. 5. PROFIT!
I can't wait to makeup something called Yuiroppo, get a front page Slashdot article entitled "How Yuiroppo Succeeded", and sit back and rake in the dough.
"The only problem is, that's not your decision to make. That's the content owner's decision."
We're saying we no longer want to live in a society where it is the content owner's decision anymore. And Civil Disobedience is the best course for changing law.
Firefox needs to stop cramming information about all your extensions into a couple of Registry-Hell-ridden configuration files. And then they cross-link by hard-to-remember GUIDs rammed into hard-to-read RDF? wtf?
Look at how extensions are done for Eclipse or JBuilder. It's much cleaner. Don't want an extension anymore? Just delete the JAR or folder. That's it. And it's clean.
Why not just leave the web to things that require the Internet and keep applications on the PC?
Because DOWNLOAD and INSTALL are two words that make too many users pass out upon hearing them uttered. If an IT Department is doing both of these tasks on their behalf, they too faint when they have 1,000+ users.
Do you have the right OS? Right version? The right drivers? Is your antivirus interfering? Is your Registry befuddled?
It's much easier to answer these questions once -- for the browser software -- and be done. Need to upgrade? NO PROBLEM! Upgrade on the servers only and we're off.
Now I'm sure EVERY ONE of my above arguments can be refuted, drowned with "gotchyas", banged with exceptions, and slammed with a "not exactly" or two. But I'm not the one that needs convincing. Convince management, cuz they are brainwashed that all my above points are Irrefutable Law of Common Wisdom. It's an uphill battle to show them otherwise. They are completely sold on the Browser as Platform concept. And that's where their pocketbooks go. So that's where commercial dev shops go.
I'm not saying webapps are without any merit, but, yes, people tend to go overboard and shove a square peg in a round hole.
If you go to the site, you'll see where he debunks previous ideas. One of those ideas is an *external* spiral ramp. But it would be twice the volume (I think...watch the movie for the exact multiplier) of the pyramid itself, which is infeasible for a 20 year project and harder to leave no evidence of after dismantling.
This guy's internal spiral ramp theory uses known tunnels that allow the pyramid to be built inside out while helping to keep laborers out of the sun.
He doesn't simply CGI all of this. He computer models it with physics to show how it could have been done with materials present for the time, and a reasonable workforce size, inside of 20 years.
Why not? I'll tell you why not... if the desktop environment is anything like developing Firefox extensions, it'll be a piece of crap.
1. Why, oh why, when I install an extension, it merges XML configuration with several other files? Do you know how hard it is to manually take all that crap out if the uninstall works (which it often does)? And still leave Firefox stable? Didn't they learn ANY lessons from Windows Registry Hell?
2. To make this "your configuration is scattered and merged with other VERY IMPORTANT FILES" phenomenon worse, why are they linked with GUIDs? GUIDs?!?! So now, if I want to uninstall "Craptastic Extension 0.7", instead of searching for "Craptasic", I have to find out what its GUID first and then hunt down instances of the GUID. Thanks a lot.
3. RDF. Ugh. Wouldn't a domain-specific XML schema have been better. I find RDF too abstract, not human readable, and contrarian to many of the design goals XML was supposed to bring in the first dang place.
4. Inconsistency of layout structure across extensions. How is this possible? The too-open-endedness of RDF. When I first tried to learn how to develop a Firefox extension, I decompressed the archives of four of my favorite popular extensions. To my dismay, the severe differences in project layout structure from extension to extension didn't allow me to see any pattern. Because the RDF can make anything point to anything, the individual developers could just layout all the directories however they damned pleased. Constrast this a Java project organized by Ant and you'll want to scream.
5. Look at Eclipse, ffs! Now THAT is how you build extensible software! Consistent. Clean install. Clean uninstall. No Registry Hell. No &$^#ing GUIDs. No RDF as obfuscated as a bad Perl or Lisp program.
From Day One of my WoW playing, I was greatly dismayed by the fact I couldn't look at my own character over the web. No stats. No info. Nothing. My expectations were set so high by the more-awesome-than-awesome web-available stats for Warcraft III profiles.
For all this talk of shareholders shying away from a company refusing business opportunities, and therefore it's "easy" for a non-profit to take the higher moral ground...
Donaters shy away from a non-profit that DOESN'T take the higher moral ground.
From Day One, I always wondered why it was ever World of Warcraft and not World of Blizzard. WC3 had many elements first introduced in Diablo II like Thorns Aura. Warcraft and Diablo are both fantasy series. Why not have them be in the same world? You can divide them by continents. Or on different planets, but connected through mystical stargates. Point is -- you character can hail from either Warcraft or Diablo lands, but through adventuring, you could interact with characters from the other series' lands.
It's a win-win situation for Blizzard, since the game would appeal to both fanbases.
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Thank you for using CV all over the summary and failing to define CV in the summary.
Not really. Flying pigs entertain us when standing outside in long movie lines. Haven't you watched Kids in the Hall?
I heard about this technology being used in an American emergency room TWO YEARS AGO. Maybe not exactly this. Maybe it was ten minutes instead of one minute. But still, why aren't machines like this in more widespread use yet?
What if it's more than just hunger pangs? What if even though you ate hearty meals all day, you still feel like you're going to pass out come dinner time? Or just irritable and woozy? What do you do then?
He minus well get paid by Take two and Microsoft.
minus well? MINUS WELL? It's "might as well".
So how *did* Habbo succeed?
1. Post an article on Slashdot entitled "How Habbo Succeeded"
2. Have 99% of visitors wonder WTF is Habbo?
3. 1% of viewers click on said article, read it, decide they want to try it
4. Realize 1% of Slashdot users is a sizeable number.
5. PROFIT!
I can't wait to makeup something called Yuiroppo, get a front page Slashdot article entitled "How Yuiroppo Succeeded", and sit back and rake in the dough.
"The only problem is, that's not your decision to make. That's the content owner's decision."
We're saying we no longer want to live in a society where it is the content owner's decision anymore. And Civil Disobedience is the best course for changing law.
I would like to give my kudos to the Thief trilogy, as well. The very end of Thief 3 making it full circle was truly beautiful.
The parent is one of the best comments I've ever read on Slashdot. Well said. Well said.
Despite the nay-saying of the article author and most of the replies, I truly loved the ColecoVision Super Action Controller.
Firefox needs to stop cramming information about all your extensions into a couple of Registry-Hell-ridden configuration files. And then they cross-link by hard-to-remember GUIDs rammed into hard-to-read RDF? wtf?
Look at how extensions are done for Eclipse or JBuilder. It's much cleaner. Don't want an extension anymore? Just delete the JAR or folder. That's it. And it's clean.
Because DOWNLOAD and INSTALL are two words that make too many users pass out upon hearing them uttered. If an IT Department is doing both of these tasks on their behalf, they too faint when they have 1,000+ users.
Do you have the right OS? Right version? The right drivers? Is your antivirus interfering? Is your Registry befuddled?
It's much easier to answer these questions once -- for the browser software -- and be done. Need to upgrade? NO PROBLEM! Upgrade on the servers only and we're off.
Now I'm sure EVERY ONE of my above arguments can be refuted, drowned with "gotchyas", banged with exceptions, and slammed with a "not exactly" or two. But I'm not the one that needs convincing. Convince management, cuz they are brainwashed that all my above points are Irrefutable Law of Common Wisdom. It's an uphill battle to show them otherwise. They are completely sold on the Browser as Platform concept. And that's where their pocketbooks go. So that's where commercial dev shops go.
I'm not saying webapps are without any merit, but, yes, people tend to go overboard and shove a square peg in a round hole.
Even amongst avid boardgames, there are those with a distaste for Eurogames taking longer than 2-1/2 hours.
A quick trip to Google Image search for Khufu tunnel.
If you go to the site, you'll see where he debunks previous ideas. One of those ideas is an *external* spiral ramp. But it would be twice the volume (I think...watch the movie for the exact multiplier) of the pyramid itself, which is infeasible for a 20 year project and harder to leave no evidence of after dismantling.
This guy's internal spiral ramp theory uses known tunnels that allow the pyramid to be built inside out while helping to keep laborers out of the sun.
He doesn't simply CGI all of this. He computer models it with physics to show how it could have been done with materials present for the time, and a reasonable workforce size, inside of 20 years.
Why not? I'll tell you why not ... if the desktop environment is anything like developing Firefox extensions, it'll be a piece of crap.
1. Why, oh why, when I install an extension, it merges XML configuration with several other files? Do you know how hard it is to manually take all that crap out if the uninstall works (which it often does)? And still leave Firefox stable? Didn't they learn ANY lessons from Windows Registry Hell?
2. To make this "your configuration is scattered and merged with other VERY IMPORTANT FILES" phenomenon worse, why are they linked with GUIDs? GUIDs?!?! So now, if I want to uninstall "Craptastic Extension 0.7", instead of searching for "Craptasic", I have to find out what its GUID first and then hunt down instances of the GUID. Thanks a lot.
3. RDF. Ugh. Wouldn't a domain-specific XML schema have been better. I find RDF too abstract, not human readable, and contrarian to many of the design goals XML was supposed to bring in the first dang place.
4. Inconsistency of layout structure across extensions. How is this possible? The too-open-endedness of RDF. When I first tried to learn how to develop a Firefox extension, I decompressed the archives of four of my favorite popular extensions. To my dismay, the severe differences in project layout structure from extension to extension didn't allow me to see any pattern. Because the RDF can make anything point to anything, the individual developers could just layout all the directories however they damned pleased. Constrast this a Java project organized by Ant and you'll want to scream.
5. Look at Eclipse, ffs! Now THAT is how you build extensible software! Consistent. Clean install. Clean uninstall. No Registry Hell. No &$^#ing GUIDs. No RDF as obfuscated as a bad Perl or Lisp program.
From Day One of my WoW playing, I was greatly dismayed by the fact I couldn't look at my own character over the web. No stats. No info. Nothing. My expectations were set so high by the more-awesome-than-awesome web-available stats for Warcraft III profiles.
I can finally Blame Canada ... for starting something Good.
No thanks. I've seen the massives make game content:
28,954 simultaneous games of Big Game Hunters Mucho Money
I'm holding out for a solution to the Navel-Strokes system.
Next they'll invent a golden lasso that increases the efficacy of a Polygraph test.
For all this talk of shareholders shying away from a company refusing business opportunities, and therefore it's "easy" for a non-profit to take the higher moral ground ...
Donaters shy away from a non-profit that DOESN'T take the higher moral ground.
Use your car/house key and pop off any offending keys. I used to do this to the Insert key.
At some libraries I used to pop off letters and rearrange them.
Let's put up more signs, straight out of the movie Brazil, They Live, and other fine sources:
SUSPICION BREEDS CONFIDENCE
REPORT YOUR NEIGHBOR
OBEY
From Day One, I always wondered why it was ever World of Warcraft and not World of Blizzard. WC3 had many elements first introduced in Diablo II like Thorns Aura. Warcraft and Diablo are both fantasy series. Why not have them be in the same world? You can divide them by continents. Or on different planets, but connected through mystical stargates. Point is -- you character can hail from either Warcraft or Diablo lands, but through adventuring, you could interact with characters from the other series' lands.
It's a win-win situation for Blizzard, since the game would appeal to both fanbases.