Size doesn't matter on the internet. Physical bulk is only good for slamming a fist down on the keyboard in frustration.
Numbers help, if you're trying to spam or text message someone (but only those clever enough can get away with it with anonymity.
If you're the skinny little runt or the ugly kid always picked on, the internet can even the odds in harrassing back.
Best not to pick fights with girls, either, as they fight meaner than boys.
Haven't seen it yet, but will probably at some point, the following bumpersticker phrase:
Where I live the last thing we need is those small zippy cars flying. At least an SUV would be visible, take some time to change velocity or vector (simple newtonian physics stuff) whereas the small cars (with less mass) would be more likely to cream participate in an 'accident' same as they are on the road -- give some amature the chance to think he's Mario Andretti and he'll prove he's more Dale Earnhardt (and I mean that from the way he drove, not the way he died.)
Maybe your point is more along these lines, though:
Birdie, birdie in the sky
Why you do that in my eye?
I no worry, I no cry,
I just glad that cows don't fly.
Will this method help find smaller planets? Jovian sized are all well and good, but Terrestrial would be more interesting.
All well and good? You gotta be kidding me! Someone with a hobby telescope spots something like this and it's like a hole-in-one in golf. Maybe you're looking for your next home, but at this stage even the people with the big radio scopes are excited by a planet find.
Maybe when we are able to warp space or whatever we'll get close enough to most of these stars to find something puny like an Earth size planet. For the meantime keep in mind the only way we know these things are there is from observation of the stars they orbit -- at this distance an Earth or Mars would be very hard to detect.
Now I will not only waste my time reading and trolling in slashdot, but also by trying to hack this application.
An unidentified downside may be that the user does more work, or tries, thus hosing projects moreso than usually would be. In other words, preventing some cretin from getting on the internet may not be in the employer's best interests, unwittingly or not.
"Aw crap, I can't get on eBay, maybe I'll work on this robot some more. *zzztt!* Pifft!EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! AAAAIIEEEEE..BZZOWNT!!MUST TAKE OVER WORLD! EXTERMINATE HUMANS!
Alexander Yuvchenko will appear in Disaster at Chernobyl on Discovery Channel in Europe at 10pm (UK time) on 29 August
Anyone up for recording this and making it available?
Back in 1990 I caught a photo exhibit by Igor Kostin in Baltimore, MD. He was the first photographer in the area after the accident and toured it afterwords, taking many pictures which are still very disturbing to remember.
It's remarkable how optimistic he is on nuclear power, even with his concerns of safety above finanancial or even political concerns.
Am I missing something, or is the innovation here just that it is on a mobile phone? -F
I think because you can access VG from phone or desktop or possibly even regular voice (probably some rudimentary voice recognition)
Remember those Vitual Pets kids had years ago, on like keychains? You had to play games with the pets and feed them and stuff or they'd die or go dormant or join the moonies or something. Maybe they've done some homework on socialology and psychology and worked some of it into the personality, ye gods, I didn't even think about that until now, but there's got to be more than one personality, right?
'd rather go to a bar and meet chicks to spend money on.
Funny how many people think this isn't the epitomy of real adventure. Meet a real human being, find out what she likes, turn her off, learn from it, try again with another until it clicks, that sort of thing.
The Virtual Girlfriend is allegedly for those who don't have the time for a relationship. To those who don't, I think you don't give actual human beings enough credit, as many friends have parttime relationships, you just have to find someone who's cool with that.
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According to the creator of VG there's no sex, none of this voyeuristic stuff aside from trying to please a program.
Seems like a video RPG, as you can communicate with 'her' over your phone or computer, talk, buy her songs and probably virtual roses and Hello Kitty accessories.
Target audience seemed to drift during the interview from 16-30 to 15-35, either way, seems
to paint a bullseye on Comic Book Guy and the like. He was also evasive on how much the player pays for gifts for the girlfriend, which suggests the hook. Next it'll probably
be people selling Virtual Pink Corvettes on eBay so you can meet 'her' special friend 'Skipper'.
The very match we were watching. It looked like Smart's blade had broken as something silvery flashed away. Shortly after that the Baseball Brigade came in and insisted the whole bar watch the world's slowed sport -- quite a contrast from watching all those exciting Olympic sports, even those most people consider obscure.
No Fair! They will be changing the outcome when they measure the outcome.
A finish line is still a finish line. Though I can't recall when they were so precise they could count 100ths of a second.
Worry about how they'll apply lasers and 3D analysis to score gymnasts, regarding how closely they follow their selection and how 'artistic' it is. Anything judged seems ultimately fair game, though seems more sci-fi than prospective reality anywhere in the near future.
I was at the pub watching the men's sabre competition and we noticed they were wearing helmets the light up in different colors, also wear clothing that detects contact and prevents the usual bloodletting a strike would make. Pretty interesting stuff.
C'mon, what are you expecting to see, really? People making out infront of their cameras? Ha!
More likely:
Some drone plodding away at a spreadsheet
A gamer wondering why his framerate just dropped 10% on d00m 3
George W. Bush picking his nose and rolling it into a little ball
A guy with a big beard and mustache, wearing a bedsheet over his head, two-finger typing instructions to a cell to get him early tickets to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, before staging this next deadly attack.
CowboyNeal with food stains all down his tshirt (ecch!)
J. K. Rowling gnawing on the pencil while deciding how the next character dies in Harry Potter. 'Zapped.. eaten.. hmmmm...'
A couple of norwegian guys with a couple paintings propped against the wall behind them.
A Slashdot moderator about to zap this post -- 'Worst post ever!'
William Shatner writing lots of kissing and strutting scenes into his appearance in Enterprise and removing that bit where he's required to act without his toupee on.
An ILM designer creating the next 'Jar Jar' character -- 'No, make it look more like Hello Kitty...
Storm Trooper1: What have we got here then?
Storm Trooper2: It appears to be a case of suicide.
Storm Trooper1: His head's crushed in, surely he couldn't use the Force against himself like that!
Storm Trooper2: No, he made a positive comment regarding the first 2 episodes and was pummeled by a mob wearing 'Die Jar Jar' shirts.
Storm Trooper1: Yep, suicide alright
Honestly, I think George Lucas was watching Spaceballs and got to the part where Yogurt says the secret is 'Moichandising!' and saw they light.
Your opinion matters to the one who authorizes purchases.
Even worse...
Boss: What do you think of this? (C'mon you know damn well this question has been posed to you and you've seen these same results)
IT: It might work, but will take 112 days from initiation to the production. It will require a work force of 384 slaves, 34 slave drivers, 12 engineers, 2 turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. The work will need to be managed by a command team composed of 234 bureaucrats, 2347 secretaries (at least two of whom could type), 12,256 paper shufflers, 52,469 rubber stampers, 245,193 red tape processors, and nearly one million dead trees
Boss: But, in the end it'll work, right?
IT: Well...
Boss: We're getting it anyway, I've already ordered it *BIG GRIN*
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It seems like/. is the place to find out... if so, someone should write 'em and let them know;)
Catch up with the times. s/IBM/Microsoft/
The true tragedy is CIO's who think, because they've mastered Excel or Access, believe they've got a firm understanding of enterprise systems and make decisions based upon this belief. It'd be comic if it hadn't resulted in many a night's lost sleep shoring up disasters. Sometimes you've gotta leave to see how much you were suckered into sacrificing your life and health, trying to make a bad choice look good.
I can't even remember all the times I nearly told someone off, with a lot of colorful language, in a meeting and quit. I do know at least once I was about a heartbeat from it and I still don't know why I didn't say what so desperately needed to be said.
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that is now hanging up in my cube. bless you.
This was haning in the Programming Office where I once worked. The word was it dated from the late 70's. That you and I identify with it today says something.
Still got complaints that the manual was too confusing.
Sounds like your audience is already jaded. We had a Q/A department where I once worked and it was the best thing ever for producing user documents. Programmers seldom think like users do, which is why it's good to have an person with that approach review and add to your documentation. Sadly when budgets start being cut Q/A is the first to go, which is utterly stupid.
Myth: You will make so much money babes will be hanging off of you.
Reality: Chicks don't dig geeks, no matter how much money you make, besides, they know you'll
spend it all on computers and techy toys instead of them.
Myth: Computer wizards command respect
Reality: Once the PHB figures you can do things you'll be buried in no time with stupid, menial tasks with the same
priority as critical tasks.
Myth: You'll continue learning as your employer sees it critical your skills are kept up to date and foots tuition and conference fees.
Reality: As soon as you can't do something or drop dead from exhaustion, you'll be replaced by another victim fresh out of school (or your job will go offshore for 1/10 what you cost)
Myth: Programming, constructing systems, et al are fun!
Reality: Most of the projects will be as much fun as getting a new filling at the dentist (any fun you actually have will be against company policy.)
You're confusing it with Beer, which wants to be free. You never actually buy beer, anyway, you only pay rent on it.
For anyone who went to see Festival Express, about a concert tour across Canada (featuring Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band, and others) there's a great bit about some mayor of a canadian city along the way insisting the promotor let the children of his city into the concert free(!) What with all the difficulty they encountered in Toronto and the capital outlay for a train and all the venues and paying the bands (16 bands? all day concerts!) the promotor took the mayor aside and slugged him.
Slashdot Mirror
Kids fight with words and fists
Adults fight with lawyers
Has Darl threatened to kick your butt unless you give him your lunch money for using Linux, yet?
Haven't seen it yet, but will probably at some point, the following bumpersticker phrase:
Where I live the last thing we need is those small zippy cars flying. At least an SUV would be visible, take some time to change velocity or vector (simple newtonian physics stuff) whereas the small cars (with less mass) would be more likely to cream participate in an 'accident' same as they are on the road -- give some amature the chance to think he's Mario Andretti and he'll prove he's more Dale Earnhardt (and I mean that from the way he drove, not the way he died.)
Maybe your point is more along these lines, though:
Geez! You'll do anything to get out of actually doing some work!
All well and good? You gotta be kidding me! Someone with a hobby telescope spots something like this and it's like a hole-in-one in golf. Maybe you're looking for your next home, but at this stage even the people with the big radio scopes are excited by a planet find.
Maybe when we are able to warp space or whatever we'll get close enough to most of these stars to find something puny like an Earth size planet. For the meantime keep in mind the only way we know these things are there is from observation of the stars they orbit -- at this distance an Earth or Mars would be very hard to detect.
An unidentified downside may be that the user does more work, or tries, thus hosing projects moreso than usually would be. In other words, preventing some cretin from getting on the internet may not be in the employer's best interests, unwittingly or not.
"Aw crap, I can't get on eBay, maybe I'll work on this robot some more.
*zzztt!* Pifft! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! AAAAIIEEEEE..BZZOWNT!! MUST TAKE OVER WORLD! EXTERMINATE HUMANS!
NO CARRIER
Anyone up for recording this and making it available?
Back in 1990 I caught a photo exhibit by Igor Kostin in Baltimore, MD. He was the first photographer in the area after the accident and toured it afterwords, taking many pictures which are still very disturbing to remember.
It's remarkable how optimistic he is on nuclear power, even with his concerns of safety above finanancial or even political concerns.
You don't even need that, you could run this on a C64.
I think because you can access VG from phone or desktop or possibly even regular voice (probably some rudimentary voice recognition)
Remember those Vitual Pets kids had years ago, on like keychains? You had to play games with the pets and feed them and stuff or they'd die or go dormant or join the moonies or something. Maybe they've done some homework on socialology and psychology and worked some of it into the personality, ye gods, I didn't even think about that until now, but there's got to be more than one personality, right?
Funny how many people think this isn't the epitomy of real adventure. Meet a real human being, find out what she likes, turn her off, learn from it, try again with another until it clicks, that sort of thing.
The Virtual Girlfriend is allegedly for those who don't have the time for a relationship. To those who don't, I think you don't give actual human beings enough credit, as many friends have parttime relationships, you just have to find someone who's cool with that.
Seems people keep trying to invent Better Than Life.
Target audience seemed to drift during the interview from 16-30 to 15-35, either way, seems to paint a bullseye on Comic Book Guy and the like. He was also evasive on how much the player pays for gifts for the girlfriend, which suggests the hook. Next it'll probably be people selling Virtual Pink Corvettes on eBay so you can meet 'her' special friend 'Skipper'.
The very match we were watching. It looked like Smart's blade had broken as something silvery flashed away. Shortly after that the Baseball Brigade came in and insisted the whole bar watch the world's slowed sport -- quite a contrast from watching all those exciting Olympic sports, even those most people consider obscure.
Worry about how they'll apply lasers and 3D analysis to score gymnasts, regarding how closely they follow their selection and how 'artistic' it is. Anything judged seems ultimately fair game, though seems more sci-fi than prospective reality anywhere in the near future.
'Maybe if they have to wear barcoded suits...'
I was at the pub watching the men's sabre competition and we noticed they were wearing helmets the light up in different colors, also wear clothing that detects contact and prevents the usual bloodletting a strike would make. Pretty interesting stuff.
Relax, they'll probably be on eBay any day now.
They didn't sound like very bright crooks, so who's to say they won't try selling them? ;-)
C'mon, what are you expecting to see, really? People making out infront of their cameras? Ha!
More likely:
Some drone plodding away at a spreadsheet
A gamer wondering why his framerate just dropped 10% on d00m 3
George W. Bush picking his nose and rolling it into a little ball
A guy with a big beard and mustache, wearing a bedsheet over his head, two-finger typing instructions to a cell to get him early tickets to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, before staging this next deadly attack.
CowboyNeal with food stains all down his tshirt (ecch!)
J. K. Rowling gnawing on the pencil while deciding how the next character dies in Harry Potter. 'Zapped .. eaten .. hmmmm...'
A couple of norwegian guys with a couple paintings propped against the wall behind them.
A Slashdot moderator about to zap this post -- 'Worst post ever!'
William Shatner writing lots of kissing and strutting scenes into his appearance in Enterprise and removing that bit where he's required to act without his toupee on.
An ILM designer creating the next 'Jar Jar' character -- 'No, make it look more like Hello Kitty...
Honestly, voyeurism is this desperate?
Storm Trooper1: What have we got here then?
Storm Trooper2: It appears to be a case of suicide.
Storm Trooper1: His head's crushed in, surely he couldn't use the Force against himself like that!
Storm Trooper2: No, he made a positive comment regarding the first 2 episodes and was pummeled by a mob wearing 'Die Jar Jar' shirts.
Storm Trooper1: Yep, suicide alright
Honestly, I think George Lucas was watching Spaceballs and got to the part where Yogurt says the secret is 'Moichandising!' and saw they light.
"May da schwarz be wit you!"
Is you sure you want to delete this file?
Even worse ...
Boss: What do you think of this? (C'mon you know damn well this question has been posed to you and you've seen these same results)
IT: It might work, but will take 112 days from initiation to the production. It will require a work force of 384 slaves, 34 slave drivers, 12 engineers, 2 turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. The work will need to be managed by a command team composed of 234 bureaucrats, 2347 secretaries (at least two of whom could type), 12,256 paper shufflers, 52,469 rubber stampers, 245,193 red tape processors, and nearly one million dead trees
Boss: But, in the end it'll work, right?
IT: Well...
Boss: We're getting it anyway, I've already ordered it *BIG GRIN*
Catch up with the times. s/IBM/Microsoft/
The true tragedy is CIO's who think, because they've mastered Excel or Access, believe they've got a firm understanding of enterprise systems and make decisions based upon this belief. It'd be comic if it hadn't resulted in many a night's lost sleep shoring up disasters. Sometimes you've gotta leave to see how much you were suckered into sacrificing your life and health, trying to make a bad choice look good.
I can't even remember all the times I nearly told someone off, with a lot of colorful language, in a meeting and quit. I do know at least once I was about a heartbeat from it and I still don't know why I didn't say what so desperately needed to be said.
This was haning in the Programming Office where I once worked. The word was it dated from the late 70's. That you and I identify with it today says something.
We have these marvelous things in the USA for removing pollution from the air -- lungs.
Beer is rented as it's mostly water, you don't keep it, you only get use from it.
Sounds like your audience is already jaded. We had a Q/A department where I once worked and it was the best thing ever for producing user documents. Programmers seldom think like users do, which is why it's good to have an person with that approach review and add to your documentation. Sadly when budgets start being cut Q/A is the first to go, which is utterly stupid.
Reality: Chicks don't dig geeks, no matter how much money you make, besides, they know you'll spend it all on computers and techy toys instead of them.
Myth: Computer wizards command respect
Reality: Once the PHB figures you can do things you'll be buried in no time with stupid, menial tasks with the same priority as critical tasks.
Myth: You'll continue learning as your employer sees it critical your skills are kept up to date and foots tuition and conference fees.
Reality: As soon as you can't do something or drop dead from exhaustion, you'll be replaced by another victim fresh out of school (or your job will go offshore for 1/10 what you cost)
Myth: Programming, constructing systems, et al are fun!
Reality: Most of the projects will be as much fun as getting a new filling at the dentist (any fun you actually have will be against company policy.)
Harsh Reality of IT Project Life Cycle
Phase 1: Uncritical acceptance.
Phase 2: Wild enthusiasm.
Phase 3: Dejected disillusionment.
Phase 4: Total confusion.
Phase 5: Search for the guilty.
Phase 6: Punishment of the innocent.
Phase 7: Promotion of nonparticipants.
You're confusing it with Beer, which wants to be free. You never actually buy beer, anyway, you only pay rent on it.
For anyone who went to see Festival Express, about a concert tour across Canada (featuring Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band, and others) there's a great bit about some mayor of a canadian city along the way insisting the promotor let the children of his city into the concert free(!) What with all the difficulty they encountered in Toronto and the capital outlay for a train and all the venues and paying the bands (16 bands? all day concerts!) the promotor took the mayor aside and slugged him.