actually the empire state building wasnt even started until after the chrysler building was complete. and it was the fastest sky scraper ever built - taking 18 months to complete.
well I knew about msnbc - and now this thing can run ms ce.net - not so sure I would want this. I mean cnet was boring enough, now they want me to carry it around with me? just because MS and cnet merged doent mean their programming will get any more entertaining.
ya but if he did that - kodak would never had paid for the trip, his portfolio wouldnt be advertised on kodaks website - and he wouldnt have been paid a fee to display all that pics on kodak.com.
he would have just been a kook who had hacked his digital cam to snap a shot at every turn of the odometer.
sorry kodak - but this does not inspire me to go out and buy more film and take more pictures. unless you have a lot of beautiful naked girls that would like me to photograph them....
of course now that this is live on slashdot - all the kodak marketing types are sitting back rubbing their hand in glee when they see the hits/. effect brings em. too bad they will be hoping in vein for the bonus when the sales figures come in and they cant spot a good conversion rate.
Yes i totally agree. Thief in in my all time top 10. along with dues ex, and now dungeon siege and jedi outcast.
Stealthily moving about and being able to take people out before they are aware of your existence is once of the most fun things to do - especially when you have to time your strike on a guard so as to just barely escape discovery by the patrol coming in just a few seconds. Then having to deal with where to put the bodies so as not to be found out. There were times of great fear "HOLY SHIT!! What is that!" and spilling your beer all over the keyboard as you leap from your seat like a little girl.
Really? thats interesting. I have always wanted to know how many people there have ever been. but I could never fgure out a reliable way of determining this info - aside from talking with God.
Where did you get that info - how do they know how many people have been born in ALL of time?
well while you may be technically correct - the point I was making is that products can be made to meet not only the functional requirements - but also be either totally neutral or beneficial to the environment for which they are designed.
so - nit pick if you like, but cynical replies only show ones lack of greater vision for that which one is doing.
at least if we are going to continue to produce such colossal quantities of plastic products we should find a safe and fast way of breaking the plastics down. Even though you may point out that plastics start out as organic compounds - please note that the fumes from burning plastic are very harmful/fatal. Why is there no fsat safe solvent to break the plastics down to totally benign (when burned, discarded or otherwise) states?
thats fine - but how do you prog the numbers into the remote system?
and does that take up minutes.
how lame is that - spen $30 on a buttonless phone with 60 minutes. Spend 45 minutes calling the "operator" to get the numbers you want to dial in the system.
try to call said prog'd num and get cutoff because you wasted all your time with "if this is correct, say YES"
what would be a better service for hopon or any other buttonless / VR phone system would be to start a portal - with web based email. And have the address book on that system be the dial directory for the phone services. However - until there is flawlerss VR then I think that buttonless phone systems will not be a very practical solution...
unless it just connected you with a human dialer on the other end - but then you get into the cost issues..
ok - so this is a cool concept in theory , but the thing that I am so tired of hearing is how we are making so many things "disposable"
I would rather we learn to make thing _organic_.
For example - I was working on making a Golf Tee out of compacted grass seed and plant fertilizer - this way, there would no longer be so many plastic and wood tees polluting the courses (only problem was that when I wrote up the verbage for the patent, I found someone else had beat me to the patent by only a month or so - even had the *exact* same verbage in their product descriptiopn... oh well)
ANYWAY - screw "disposable" I want bio-degradable. If you really want to think of your self as the technocratic elite - then I think that the focus should be on doing all of the cool shit that we like to see, plus more. In addition to making some nifty new wibbidy do da - make sure that the wibbidy do da's that you make are HELP ING the world be a better place in the long run.
This is related to a post that was on the Intel-Yoga thread. The changes of the world have to start happening with us.
please - no more trash. In one hundred years we will all be a dead race due to the fact that the world is nothing but a planet sized dump!
how are they going to sell these cycles to other companies? especially since these cycles would not be sony's to sell - but mine.
and - if the memory bandwidth is so great, yet the network bandwidth is so pitiful - how does that make it a suitable topology for distributed sellable bandwidth/cycles?
because most companies tend to try to "leverage" their own products, thinking that it will be a cheaper solution in the long run. They tend to think that since it is their own product, they have the in-house expertise to handle it and it will provide a lower TOC.
forget the fact that they sometimes tend to forget to try to "leverage" the many many thousands of dolars worth of existing equip they may have already deployed into production.
for some companies this works for them, for others it does not. AOL case in point.
the thing that AOL may have overlooked - to turn this into an opportunity to write some actually good software and try to make a corporate email package. course maybe they know that any slightly tech-savvy person would avoid any AOL corporate email package like the plague.:)
the point i was making is that these things set us up for giving into the victim mentality in which we just accept all the restrictions and limitations and invasions that come about and throw our hands in the air as if there is nothing we can do.
so - in the context of what the original poster had said, yes this is vicitimization. albeit by our choice to be a victim of the circumstance. by allowing each tiny step toward no privacy through things that, by themselves - and at the time of implementation, seem harmless - we cinch the knot tighter. we need to look at the total sum of all such little seemingly trivial infringments on our life-as-we-know-it to get a feel for how critical defending our "right" to anonymity.
of couse one can argue that this is not a right... but I feel as though it is. Couldnt it be argued based on the 5th amendment that i have the right to not allow any information about myself to be exposed other than the bare minimum requirement?
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actually the empire state building wasnt even started until after the chrysler building was complete. and it was the fastest sky scraper ever built - taking 18 months to complete.
the money might go to a screenplay rework?
whats with that shrunken headed lady on the main page! Yikes!
well I knew about msnbc - and now this thing can run ms ce.net - not so sure I would want this. I mean cnet was boring enough, now they want me to carry it around with me? just because MS and cnet merged doent mean their programming will get any more entertaining.
"If it's not wave after wave of spam in your mailbox, it's excessively intrusive ad banners and popups, or Slashdot Articles "
how come its not called the nautulis (sp)?
phoenix is a fiery bird... this is a _sub_
ya but if he did that - kodak would never had paid for the trip, his portfolio wouldnt be advertised on kodaks website - and he wouldnt have been paid a fee to display all that pics on kodak.com.
/. effect brings em. too bad they will be hoping in vein for the bonus when the sales figures come in and they cant spot a good conversion rate.
he would have just been a kook who had hacked his digital cam to snap a shot at every turn of the odometer.
sorry kodak - but this does not inspire me to go out and buy more film and take more pictures. unless you have a lot of beautiful naked girls that would like me to photograph them....
of course now that this is live on slashdot - all the kodak marketing types are sitting back rubbing their hand in glee when they see the hits
lets just hope its not a clone of mouselinni (sp) or some other super villain.
no off to read the article!
Yes i totally agree. Thief in in my all time top 10. along with dues ex, and now dungeon siege and jedi outcast.
Stealthily moving about and being able to take people out before they are aware of your existence is once of the most fun things to do - especially when you have to time your strike on a guard so as to just barely escape discovery by the patrol coming in just a few seconds. Then having to deal with where to put the bodies so as not to be found out. There were times of great fear "HOLY SHIT!! What is that!" and spilling your beer all over the keyboard as you leap from your seat like a little girl.
good point. the employees at microsoft must HATE what they do then.
Really? thats interesting. I have always wanted to know how many people there have ever been. but I could never fgure out a reliable way of determining this info - aside from talking with God.
Where did you get that info - how do they know how many people have been born in ALL of time?
seriously. how?
well while you may be technically correct - the point I was making is that products can be made to meet not only the functional requirements - but also be either totally neutral or beneficial to the environment for which they are designed.
so - nit pick if you like, but cynical replies only show ones lack of greater vision for that which one is doing.
at least if we are going to continue to produce such colossal quantities of plastic products we should find a safe and fast way of breaking the plastics down. Even though you may point out that plastics start out as organic compounds - please note that the fumes from burning plastic are very harmful/fatal. Why is there no fsat safe solvent to break the plastics down to totally benign (when burned, discarded or otherwise) states?
actually I think the apropriate term is:
war mongering!
thats fine - but how do you prog the numbers into the remote system?
and does that take up minutes.
how lame is that - spen $30 on a buttonless phone with 60 minutes. Spend 45 minutes calling the "operator" to get the numbers you want to dial in the system.
try to call said prog'd num and get cutoff because you wasted all your time with "if this is correct, say YES"
what would be a better service for hopon or any other buttonless / VR phone system would be to start a portal - with web based email. And have the address book on that system be the dial directory for the phone services. However - until there is flawlerss VR then I think that buttonless phone systems will not be a very practical solution...
unless it just connected you with a human dialer on the other end - but then you get into the cost issues..
ok - so this is a cool concept in theory , but the thing that I am so tired of hearing is how we are making so many things "disposable"
I would rather we learn to make thing _organic_.
For example - I was working on making a Golf Tee out of compacted grass seed and plant fertilizer - this way, there would no longer be so many plastic and wood tees polluting the courses (only problem was that when I wrote up the verbage for the patent, I found someone else had beat me to the patent by only a month or so - even had the *exact* same verbage in their product descriptiopn... oh well)
ANYWAY - screw "disposable" I want bio-degradable. If you really want to think of your self as the technocratic elite - then I think that the focus should be on doing all of the cool shit that we like to see, plus more. In addition to making some nifty new wibbidy do da - make sure that the wibbidy do da's that you make are HELP ING the world be a better place in the long run.
This is related to a post that was on the Intel-Yoga thread. The changes of the world have to start happening with us.
please - no more trash. In one hundred years we will all be a dead race due to the fact that the world is nothing but a planet sized dump!
/rant
"thanks to Wemblie for parts and help"
nice to see that Wemblie Fraggle found work after the show was canceled.
I thought the root of all e-vil^H^H^H mail was outlook?
I've been doing that for years. Ever since I learned how to use the light swtich.
? i dont get it.
how are they going to sell these cycles to other companies? especially since these cycles would not be sony's to sell - but mine.
and - if the memory bandwidth is so great, yet the network bandwidth is so pitiful - how does that make it a suitable topology for distributed sellable bandwidth/cycles?
reading this - I just had a vision of some student rubbing this nutrient liquid all over his privates hoping for that 16% in a week....
but maybe im just sick....
because most companies tend to try to "leverage" their own products, thinking that it will be a cheaper solution in the long run. They tend to think that since it is their own product, they have the in-house expertise to handle it and it will provide a lower TOC.
:)
forget the fact that they sometimes tend to forget to try to "leverage" the many many thousands of dolars worth of existing equip they may have already deployed into production.
for some companies this works for them, for others it does not. AOL case in point.
the thing that AOL may have overlooked - to turn this into an opportunity to write some actually good software and try to make a corporate email package. course maybe they know that any slightly tech-savvy person would avoid any AOL corporate email package like the plague.
the point i was making is that these things set us up for giving into the victim mentality in which we just accept all the restrictions and limitations and invasions that come about and throw our hands in the air as if there is nothing we can do.
so - in the context of what the original poster had said, yes this is vicitimization. albeit by our choice to be a victim of the circumstance. by allowing each tiny step toward no privacy through things that, by themselves - and at the time of implementation, seem harmless - we cinch the knot tighter. we need to look at the total sum of all such little seemingly trivial infringments on our life-as-we-know-it to get a feel for how critical defending our "right" to anonymity.
of couse one can argue that this is not a right... but I feel as though it is. Couldnt it be argued based on the 5th amendment that i have the right to not allow any information about myself to be exposed other than the bare minimum requirement?
i like
www.microsith.com
microsith lookout.
the email address I give out to everyone:
bob@wehadababyitsaboy.com
I also give this out to magazines and such. I ahve several catalougs that arrived for bob wehadababyitsaboy.
i've been using yahoo mail for 5+ years...
this is the first I ahve heard about this.
the funny thing is that I use yahoo only for the following services:
mail.yahoo.com
yp.yahoo.com
maps.yahoo.com
and absolutely nothing else. cant remember the last time I actually did a search on yahoo.