Odd. I thought we were getting out of the business of mines. It seems Diana totally lived in vain.
I was a bit taken back when some military channel was rattling away on a satellite TV and all these amazing land and water craft were being shown. Now I know why the USA DOD accounts for such a massive amount of the USA budget while cutting soldiers benefits. Even generals like to have their toys. Isn't this all a bit Dr. Strangelove?
Today my gf is a school teacher and rarely if ever do the parents ever discipline the kid. Almost always in this day and age the parent will always standup for the kid and attack the teacher for letting it happen. No one believes in responsibility and everything is always someone elses fault. Its like a character flaw if its your own. I wonder if this is why America is so law suit friendly? Its always someone elses fault and its liek this because we raise our kids to think that.
This is the great part. Parents don't discipline their kids, they expect the school to do everything. Then when someone in the school does they howl their heads off about the abuse of their child by the people in the school. It's like asking school staff to walk in bare feet on broken glass and then handing them a refridgerator to carry.
I've heard people compare things like this to the signs of the Roman Empire collapsing. I think we are and I think China is going to be the new big kid on the block.
Given the level of sophistication of the average teenager, I'd say that's a fairly eloquent denounciation of the school system.
What about the education system that produced these parents? I could see a kid doing something like this, but the parents failing to see they had a big part in this they missed and now are contesting in court? Man.. If I had done this when I was in school, I shudder to think what my dad would have thought. It certainly would mean some big changes in my freedoms at home. I work in a school system. I've some idea the sort of shit kids do and get away with. That these parents didn't get the message is more worrying than anything the district did.
Let me be among the first to exclaim "Yay!" Like, totally forsooth and verily!
I was just in the biggest funk about this and not just because the DVD on the new Sky and Telescope
reminded me of what we'd be missing. I know there's all sorts of swell and really keen new
stuff on the way, but I've just got so used to going to bed at night, snug and secure in the knowledge that the big
guy was still up there looking for spiffy cosmic phenomena.
that's the only part of the decision i disagree with. an IM icon isn't a threat, it's an icon.
This isn't the 1950's and the Cleaver's we're discussing here. There are in the past 20 years several accounts of perfectly normal children appearing at school one day to settle a few scores. Nobody sees these things coming, particularly parents. Parents who don't check up on who their children hang out with, don't engage in conversations to see how their day went, but are always shocked when they get a call from the police.
I worked in San Jose a few years ago and some joker took some pictures of himself with a bunch of guns and ammo and dropped them off at the local drug store for processing. An alert employee thought there was something wrong and reported the photos to the police. The guy had been driving past my office every day for months. Guns, explosives, pipe bombs, etc. Plans to kill people at his community college were found in his home. Free speech? Sometimes people have to take an interest. I'm seriously bugged Aaron's parents are defending this.
Ok, most law is based upon common sense. You don't steal my car, I don't shoot you, we all get along sort of thing.
Here we have parents backing up their child's poor taste chat icon. Seriously. There's the 1st Amendment, or whatever
passes for guarantees of Free Speech in other countries, but where is this a political critique of the institutions of
government? That's what the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution is there to protect. This is clearly a child behaving badly
and parents backing him up. There's seriously something f**ked in the head with these people.
I'm behind the judge in this one. I'd even consider remanding the child to protective services as these
parents are seriously a threat when they think this is find behaviour worthy of defending in court.
I'm sure it's in the "End User License Agreement somewhere." In an rare dialect of the
Lushootseed tribe translates to "grease up and bend over."
It's just another one of those commonly ignored or overlooked aspects of software the Fortune 500 companies, who established Microsoft as their standard, don't think is important while executives contemplate which administrative assistant to shag after their three martini lunch and where to float to on their golden parachute after they've finished the other kinds of executive decisions which result in massive losses of unsecured data.
This is probably the primary reason for drug abuse in America, it helps employees get through the day with the knowledge of the kind of leadership they are under.
"Sir, all 2,500 company computers are down, something about unverified copies of Windows running on them. I've tried to contact Microsoft but all of their lines are busy and the one call we got through suggested we visit their customer support page."
I used to have SETI running, but eventually the project came to an end. (As far as I could tell from the So Long And Thanks For All The Fish sorta letter I got.) I've tried setting up BOINC, but it's not at all clear to me if it's set up correctly. Most of the time it doesn't even seem to be doing anything. Use of the Console is bizarre, in the sense it isn't clear if I've got it set up correctly and how to temporarily disable it if I don't want it popping up at an inopportune moment.
welcome our new European and Asian supercomputer overlords.
With the Chinese quest to show they're as good as anybody, if not better, they'll
probably be claiming something which dwarfs the USA DOE's Blue Gene chart-topper in a few years. To be powered and cooled at the site of the Three Gorges Dam.
probably use it to run world economic models and such to plan for when the USA defaults on hits 9+ trillion $ debt.
I don't know about Horror being needed. I sometimes like the idea of playing the monster, when the opportunity presents itself. Heck,
I've certainly been one in the online games I play, where I go around slaughtering things to gain experience levels and take the victim's
treasures. See it from their point of view. "Horrors, here comes that damn human again! Is there
no end for it's thirst for blood? It'll probably go after our shaman some day, then were will we be as a people?"
Really, what we already know is that variety is what games need. If every game was based upon something jumping
out of the shadows and ripping your lungs out, we'd have someone telling us what is needed is the safe-and-secure
game genre where no harm comes to our valiant little avatar as he/she zips around collecting rings or what have you without repressing
some proletariat.
My own take is I have long had a preference for games where the player explores the unknown. There may be danger, there
may be reward, but cooling your heels doesn't do much for the sense of intrigue. Exploring dungeons and wiping out
baddies, or going on raids day after day, to achieve enough levels to used some object or spell is, as a topic some time back
pointed out, is work (you know, that four letter word.)
Ages ago I was totally wrapped up in the old fortran game Empire (eventually released as a PC game), until I'd
played it enough to know what to expect. Nothing quite like the first time you're marching your little a into the black unknown
only to find the enemy well entrenched, then to gear up your production for an assault. Eventually it was
too slow and tedius. Same went for Seven Cities of Gold when you rolled your own New World (which wouldn't be at all
like what you see on a normal globe) Exploring the unknown and facing risk is what gets the heart rate going, Grue or no Grue.
In fact, several people I know (WOW addicts), are so amazed by the amount of extra money they save by not buying 3-4 games a month that they re-evaluate buying that many games even after they kick the WOW habit. So it isn't just a temporary loss... it could very well be a permanent one.
Back when I first started playing online I had been spending a fair chunk of my monthly paycheck between arcade games and buying $49 titles for one of my home computers. In the 10+ years since playing online games I've probably spent less than $500 total on computer games/console games.
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But I still get a huge kick out of Log (tm), Powdered Toast Man, Lummox herds, lambasting the materialism and exposing the fetishism in western society, and the fact that the show could ever have been marketed as a kid's cartoon to start with.
Thank you. The thing a later half generation doesn't seem to get is this was fairly cutting edge, underground stuff. Why Nick even picked it up is beyond me, it should have played late evening on Viacom's other network MTV, as Beavis and Butthead did. RnS (as it was referred to back in the day) was a huge hit with the college age group. Little kids could laugh at the nose-goblins or Mr. Horse sniffing a pan of Gritty Kitty, but the content wasn't really intended for them. John K. waged epic battles with Vanessa Coffey, who would eventually get him the sack, which dramatically altered many finished cartoons, which then went back to the shop for some modification and as John once said, just to mock Coffey, they'd make no sense, like the butchered PC Looney Tunes of the 70's.
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Actually, Family Guy humor comes from their making jokes which are so repetitious that they aren't funny any more, but annoying, and then taking it a step further until it becomes funny that they're dragging the joke out, then they drag it out just a little more to make it that much more annoying.
Largely why I don't watch Family Guy unless I'm too lazy to turn TV off. You see a few shows and that's pretty much all you're going to see, just with different characters and settings, but the same crap over and over. American Dad is worse.
Futurama at least had a story to each show, with the humour rolled into it, where it seems Family Guy drifts all over the place simply for the purpose of setting up a joke, some of which go on far too long. They could dump Family Guy and American Dad and I wouldn't miss them.
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I remember watching the old episodes of Ren and Stimpy and thinking, "why did I like this? This is horrible."
Ah, well, I bought the 3 dvd set of the originals and still get a big laugh out of them. Some are kinda weird, but I think they were weird back in the day, too. Best of the series were the Cmdr Hoek and Cadet Stimpy space serial send ups.
I've been to a Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation and have thought, "Whaaaattt? This stuff is supposed to be funny?" Then I realise about 75% of the audience smoked a bong before coming in.
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While I applaud it, I remember the resurrection of Ren & Stimpy and how it just wasn't quite the
same anymore. The making of a popular series can often rest on the frenzy of creating the episodes and
the chemistry of those at work on it. Add an interruption, time for other projects and influences, what
will become of pulling the team back together? Will it be the same, or will it be like, "well, Bender saying, 'bite my shiny metal asee' doesn't
totally suck, but it's just, you know, different now."
Other news in the It's About Time Department:
In other good news, finally on DVD, Yellowbeard! Arr!
July 27 for
USA & Canada or July 10 for
UK
No word yet on extras, like Group Madness, the documentary of making of the film.
So much for software. Must be using Windows. Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllll!!!!!
Exactly. The most effective way to beat the huge amount of programming, data entry and analysis of computers is to simply change behviour. Socceroos did well to keep up with the Brazilians, but Too-Fat Ronaldo was more assistance to them. When Brazil finally bench The Fat One and start Robinho in his place, it's all smooth sailing.
* Our CTO stops caring about security.
* Our Microsoft sales rep takes our CFO out to a very nice lunch/dinner/trip
That's how we ended up with SQL Server; and no doubt that's how we'll end up with Vista, regardless of any technical merits or issues.
Gee, last place I worked all it required was a CIO who thought unbridled enthusiasm for all things Microsoft was all that was required, thus proving a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing.
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maybe we're just sticking to our guns as far as history is concerned by manufacturing weapons and selling or giving them to other countries....
And then the US President is so surprised and disappointed by all the terrorism and anti-US sentiment in the world.
Odd. I thought we were getting out of the business of mines. It seems Diana totally lived in vain.
I was a bit taken back when some military channel was rattling away on a satellite TV and all these amazing land and water craft were being shown. Now I know why the USA DOD accounts for such a massive amount of the USA budget while cutting soldiers benefits. Even generals like to have their toys. Isn't this all a bit Dr. Strangelove?
There's a DVD in the July S&T? What's on it? Worthwhile? Normally I only pick up the January issue for the calendar.
It's the August issue, a DVD of Hubble highlights.
Today my gf is a school teacher and rarely if ever do the parents ever discipline the kid. Almost always in this day and age the parent will always standup for the kid and attack the teacher for letting it happen. No one believes in responsibility and everything is always someone elses fault. Its like a character flaw if its your own. I wonder if this is why America is so law suit friendly? Its always someone elses fault and its liek this because we raise our kids to think that.
This is the great part. Parents don't discipline their kids, they expect the school to do everything. Then when someone in the school does they howl their heads off about the abuse of their child by the people in the school. It's like asking school staff to walk in bare feet on broken glass and then handing them a refridgerator to carry.
I've heard people compare things like this to the signs of the Roman Empire collapsing. I think we are and I think China is going to be the new big kid on the block.
Given the level of sophistication of the average teenager, I'd say that's a fairly eloquent denounciation of the school system.
What about the education system that produced these parents? I could see a kid doing something like this, but the parents failing to see they had a big part in this they missed and now are contesting in court? Man.. If I had done this when I was in school, I shudder to think what my dad would have thought. It certainly would mean some big changes in my freedoms at home. I work in a school system. I've some idea the sort of shit kids do and get away with. That these parents didn't get the message is more worrying than anything the district did.
Let me be among the first to exclaim "Yay!" Like, totally forsooth and verily!
I was just in the biggest funk about this and not just because the DVD on the new Sky and Telescope reminded me of what we'd be missing. I know there's all sorts of swell and really keen new stuff on the way, but I've just got so used to going to bed at night, snug and secure in the knowledge that the big guy was still up there looking for spiffy cosmic phenomena.
I for one rewelcome our HST overlord.
that's the only part of the decision i disagree with. an IM icon isn't a threat, it's an icon.
This isn't the 1950's and the Cleaver's we're discussing here. There are in the past 20 years several accounts of perfectly normal children appearing at school one day to settle a few scores. Nobody sees these things coming, particularly parents. Parents who don't check up on who their children hang out with, don't engage in conversations to see how their day went, but are always shocked when they get a call from the police.
I worked in San Jose a few years ago and some joker took some pictures of himself with a bunch of guns and ammo and dropped them off at the local drug store for processing. An alert employee thought there was something wrong and reported the photos to the police. The guy had been driving past my office every day for months. Guns, explosives, pipe bombs, etc. Plans to kill people at his community college were found in his home. Free speech? Sometimes people have to take an interest. I'm seriously bugged Aaron's parents are defending this.
Ok, most law is based upon common sense. You don't steal my car, I don't shoot you, we all get along sort of thing. Here we have parents backing up their child's poor taste chat icon. Seriously. There's the 1st Amendment, or whatever passes for guarantees of Free Speech in other countries, but where is this a political critique of the institutions of government? That's what the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution is there to protect. This is clearly a child behaving badly and parents backing him up. There's seriously something f**ked in the head with these people.
I'm behind the judge in this one. I'd even consider remanding the child to protective services as these parents are seriously a threat when they think this is find behaviour worthy of defending in court.
I'm sure it's in the "End User License Agreement somewhere." In an rare dialect of the Lushootseed tribe translates to "grease up and bend over."
It's just another one of those commonly ignored or overlooked aspects of software the Fortune 500 companies, who established Microsoft as their standard, don't think is important while executives contemplate which administrative assistant to shag after their three martini lunch and where to float to on their golden parachute after they've finished the other kinds of executive decisions which result in massive losses of unsecured data.
This is probably the primary reason for drug abuse in America, it helps employees get through the day with the knowledge of the kind of leadership they are under.
"Sir, all 2,500 company computers are down, something about unverified copies of Windows running on them. I've tried to contact Microsoft but all of their lines are busy and the one call we got through suggested we visit their customer support page."
And here I was thinking we already had MOS Semiconductor...
Maybe WSJ and I are on the same wavelength.
I used to have SETI running, but eventually the project came to an end. (As far as I could tell from the So Long And Thanks For All The Fish sorta letter I got.) I've tried setting up BOINC, but it's not at all clear to me if it's set up correctly. Most of the time it doesn't even seem to be doing anything. Use of the Console is bizarre, in the sense it isn't clear if I've got it set up correctly and how to temporarily disable it if I don't want it popping up at an inopportune moment.
welcome our new European and Asian supercomputer overlords.
With the Chinese quest to show they're as good as anybody, if not better, they'll probably be claiming something which dwarfs the USA DOE's Blue Gene chart-topper in a few years. To be powered and cooled at the site of the Three Gorges Dam.
probably use it to run world economic models and such to plan for when the USA defaults on hits 9+ trillion $ debt.
Shit! I can remember when processors had that many transistors!
hello, olde programmers home, i'm enquiring for a vacancy...
I don't know about Horror being needed. I sometimes like the idea of playing the monster, when the opportunity presents itself. Heck, I've certainly been one in the online games I play, where I go around slaughtering things to gain experience levels and take the victim's treasures. See it from their point of view. "Horrors, here comes that damn human again! Is there no end for it's thirst for blood? It'll probably go after our shaman some day, then were will we be as a people?"
Really, what we already know is that variety is what games need. If every game was based upon something jumping out of the shadows and ripping your lungs out, we'd have someone telling us what is needed is the safe-and-secure game genre where no harm comes to our valiant little avatar as he/she zips around collecting rings or what have you without repressing some proletariat.
My own take is I have long had a preference for games where the player explores the unknown. There may be danger, there may be reward, but cooling your heels doesn't do much for the sense of intrigue. Exploring dungeons and wiping out baddies, or going on raids day after day, to achieve enough levels to used some object or spell is, as a topic some time back pointed out, is work (you know, that four letter word.)
Ages ago I was totally wrapped up in the old fortran game Empire (eventually released as a PC game), until I'd played it enough to know what to expect. Nothing quite like the first time you're marching your little a into the black unknown only to find the enemy well entrenched, then to gear up your production for an assault. Eventually it was too slow and tedius. Same went for Seven Cities of Gold when you rolled your own New World (which wouldn't be at all like what you see on a normal globe) Exploring the unknown and facing risk is what gets the heart rate going, Grue or no Grue.
And has encouraged americans to use enough gas to fill a swimming pool, each year.
Ike also saw the wonderful mass transit capable of the european trains, but that wasn't good enough...
Yes. Next?
In fact, several people I know (WOW addicts), are so amazed by the amount of extra money they save by not buying 3-4 games a month that they re-evaluate buying that many games even after they kick the WOW habit. So it isn't just a temporary loss... it could very well be a permanent one.
Back when I first started playing online I had been spending a fair chunk of my monthly paycheck between arcade games and buying $49 titles for one of my home computers. In the 10+ years since playing online games I've probably spent less than $500 total on computer games/console games.
But I still get a huge kick out of Log (tm), Powdered Toast Man, Lummox herds, lambasting the materialism and exposing the fetishism in western society, and the fact that the show could ever have been marketed as a kid's cartoon to start with.
Thank you. The thing a later half generation doesn't seem to get is this was fairly cutting edge, underground stuff. Why Nick even picked it up is beyond me, it should have played late evening on Viacom's other network MTV, as Beavis and Butthead did. RnS (as it was referred to back in the day) was a huge hit with the college age group. Little kids could laugh at the nose-goblins or Mr. Horse sniffing a pan of Gritty Kitty, but the content wasn't really intended for them. John K. waged epic battles with Vanessa Coffey, who would eventually get him the sack, which dramatically altered many finished cartoons, which then went back to the shop for some modification and as John once said, just to mock Coffey, they'd make no sense, like the butchered PC Looney Tunes of the 70's.
Actually, Family Guy humor comes from their making jokes which are so repetitious that they aren't funny any more, but annoying, and then taking it a step further until it becomes funny that they're dragging the joke out, then they drag it out just a little more to make it that much more annoying.
Largely why I don't watch Family Guy unless I'm too lazy to turn TV off. You see a few shows and that's pretty much all you're going to see, just with different characters and settings, but the same crap over and over. American Dad is worse.
Futurama at least had a story to each show, with the humour rolled into it, where it seems Family Guy drifts all over the place simply for the purpose of setting up a joke, some of which go on far too long. They could dump Family Guy and American Dad and I wouldn't miss them.
I remember watching the old episodes of Ren and Stimpy and thinking, "why did I like this? This is horrible."
Ah, well, I bought the 3 dvd set of the originals and still get a big laugh out of them. Some are kinda weird, but I think they were weird back in the day, too. Best of the series were the Cmdr Hoek and Cadet Stimpy space serial send ups.
I've been to a Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation and have thought, "Whaaaattt? This stuff is supposed to be funny?" Then I realise about 75% of the audience smoked a bong before coming in.
While I applaud it, I remember the resurrection of Ren & Stimpy and how it just wasn't quite the same anymore. The making of a popular series can often rest on the frenzy of creating the episodes and the chemistry of those at work on it. Add an interruption, time for other projects and influences, what will become of pulling the team back together? Will it be the same, or will it be like, "well, Bender saying, 'bite my shiny metal asee' doesn't totally suck, but it's just, you know, different now."
Other news in the It's About Time Department:
In other good news, finally on DVD, Yellowbeard! Arr! July 27 for USA & Canada or July 10 for UK No word yet on extras, like Group Madness, the documentary of making of the film.
Can it? Is that a rhetorical question? Linux already is a cash cow, I think Redhat proved that long ago...
I think IBM have proven that as well.
Keep in mind, if you have companies raking in billions supporting Windows, you're doing something wrong if you can't do it with Linux
re Ronaldo He's not fat, just "big-boned".
Then he's got too many bones in his belly.
Exactly. The most effective way to beat the huge amount of programming, data entry and analysis of computers is to simply change behviour. Socceroos did well to keep up with the Brazilians, but Too-Fat Ronaldo was more assistance to them. When Brazil finally bench The Fat One and start Robinho in his place, it's all smooth sailing.
Maybe this will provide some legal leverage to go after people who spam blogs and forums with adds for online poker, etc?
By all means, let's attack free enterprise and free speech, let's start with this internet site which promotes gambling.