It should be Law that legal officials of all sort have to have a "qualified technical advisor" present when giving any court order or summons. Mind you we geeks would then lose our main advantage when it comes to skating on the fringes of laws *cough"mp3 collection"cough*.
Serriously where the hell is it? I'ts 07 and I dont have a flying car, monkey buttler or datajack to plug my head directly into a computer! WTF man? In a few years I am going to turn 40, if I cant take "cybering" to a whole new level or braindump into halo 5 with full virtual sensory control then why the hell are we even bothering with new technology. We are waaay the hell behind in this crap from where we should be. Hell by 2020 I need to be able to ditch my meat corpse permenantly and become a ghost in a datastream somewhere enjoying all the world wide web until a wayward asteroid ends the party for the whole planet.
Sounds like a long overdue idea at the forefront but where does the line get drawn? Do they stop at the internet "fantasy" sites that have started popping up or will they suddenly include Anime? What about some Mod for The Sims that some kid cooks up that makes all the characters naked? Would hate to think some poor bastard out there gets 10 years in prison for mixing together the perfect nudist colony on his sims block. Any chance they will just limit this to the internet pr0n sites that have cropped up?
Eventually a show has to end, and Bab5 ended very well with only a few after series spin-off-death-throes. Trying to bring back to life Frankenstien is not always a good idea. Bab5 was great, it ended great, its time to let it go. If you want to Rez something go talk to the browncoats.
The biggest hallmarks for me was first Ultima 7, which showed how huge a video game world could get and how detailed, it for me first definved "VIRTUAL WORLD" in which you could do anything and be as cruel and depraved as you wanted.
The next hallmark was X-Com, Mass destruction of the battlefield which to this day still hasnt been duplicated.
Finally the year UO was released, the 2nd real grand daddy of all MMO's after meridian, playing with yourself is all well and good *cough* but playing with several hundred people is priceless.
Actually I think it was the before and after pics of the Ice Caps melting over the last few years that finally got the rest of us to say "FINE, we may have a problem!, are you happy now?". Damn environmentalist and thier facts.
I guess google's bending over backwards to censor the web searching just wasnt good enough, maybe some of the citizens figured out how to use lycos. Nothing they can do about that but recreate the internet in thier own immage. But without porn...will it really be the internet?
Whats left in this game for the casual power gamers? We did the 'end content raids' like MC and Onixia and BWL...over and frickin over. PVP got old after a month, it wont matter how many extra pvp maps you throw in. So whats left? For the love of god is there only Treadmill Level Grinding (TM) and then your off to Treadmill Equipment Grinding (TM)?!?!?
It is its own language, and most geeks accept that. There is nothing quite like trying to explain a network/computer problem that your dealing with only to have the person your speaking to have thier eyes glaze over and start drooling. Its far worse being the only geek in a large workplace, everything could be going to hell and a handbasket and there's nobody around to translate your plain english!
This is the world I currently live in since comming to work 10 minutes ago.
Grab a cheap stungun/cattleprod from the next gunshow, rig it to the relay that activates when the light sensor is tagged. Attach leeds from the stungun to the wearee's body.
Viola, now whenever you get tagged not only are you embarrassed but your jiggling and peeing yourself as well. Fun for the whole family.
Im 32 years old (in a couple days), thankfully i run a small buisness network of 60 systems spread out across a city. But if my job ever went south again i always thought i could fall back into computer/networking phone support once again. But unlike 10 years ago it seems there are little oportunities for someone my age to work in such a field, first because most of those jobs got shipped off to malaysia and india (fuck you dell), and now because im over the hill. Seems to be yet another reason to hang onto my current job with a iron griop.
They are assuming we go out into the sunshine, hell i spend my entire work day in a windowless closet of a server room with the light out to keep the heat down.
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It should be Law that legal officials of all sort have to have a "qualified technical advisor" present when giving any court order or summons. Mind you we geeks would then lose our main advantage when it comes to skating on the fringes of laws *cough"mp3 collection"cough*.
Serriously where the hell is it? I'ts 07 and I dont have a flying car, monkey buttler or datajack to plug my head directly into a computer! WTF man? In a few years I am going to turn 40, if I cant take "cybering" to a whole new level or braindump into halo 5 with full virtual sensory control then why the hell are we even bothering with new technology. We are waaay the hell behind in this crap from where we should be. Hell by 2020 I need to be able to ditch my meat corpse permenantly and become a ghost in a datastream somewhere enjoying all the world wide web until a wayward asteroid ends the party for the whole planet.
I got a schedule here people!
Thank you Captain Obvious! We'll take it from here.
Life imprisonment? We would have to turn entire states into prisons to do anything remotely like this.
What other politicians are willing to end thier carreers by attatching thier names to this?
Sounds like a long overdue idea at the forefront but where does the line get drawn? Do they stop at the internet "fantasy" sites that have started popping up or will they suddenly include Anime? What about some Mod for The Sims that some kid cooks up that makes all the characters naked? Would hate to think some poor bastard out there gets 10 years in prison for mixing together the perfect nudist colony on his sims block. Any chance they will just limit this to the internet pr0n sites that have cropped up?
Eventually a show has to end, and Bab5 ended very well with only a few after series spin-off-death-throes. Trying to bring back to life Frankenstien is not always a good idea. Bab5 was great, it ended great, its time to let it go. If you want to Rez something go talk to the browncoats.
The biggest hallmarks for me was first Ultima 7, which showed how huge a video game world could get and how detailed, it for me first definved "VIRTUAL WORLD" in which you could do anything and be as cruel and depraved as you wanted.
The next hallmark was X-Com, Mass destruction of the battlefield which to this day still hasnt been duplicated.
Finally the year UO was released, the 2nd real grand daddy of all MMO's after meridian, playing with yourself is all well and good *cough* but playing with several hundred people is priceless.
Actually I think it was the before and after pics of the Ice Caps melting over the last few years that finally got the rest of us to say "FINE, we may have a problem!, are you happy now?". Damn environmentalist and thier facts.
If its anything like Japanese porn then no.....dear god almighty...no.
I guess google's bending over backwards to censor the web searching just wasnt good enough, maybe some of the citizens figured out how to use lycos. Nothing they can do about that but recreate the internet in thier own immage. But without porn...will it really be the internet?
Take one guided missle
+
1 hungry rat's brain.
+
superimposed immage of target that is redone to look like cheese.
=
BOOM.
I dub this the coolest thing of the year.
If were going to introduce "megafauna", why screw around with wimpy cheetahs and elephants.
http://www.jurassicpark.com/maingate_flash.html
Whats left in this game for the casual power gamers? We did the 'end content raids' like MC and Onixia and BWL...over and frickin over. PVP got old after a month, it wont matter how many extra pvp maps you throw in. So whats left? For the love of god is there only Treadmill Level Grinding (TM) and then your off to Treadmill Equipment Grinding (TM)?!?!?
It is its own language, and most geeks accept that. There is nothing quite like trying to explain a network/computer problem that your dealing with only to have the person your speaking to have thier eyes glaze over and start drooling. Its far worse being the only geek in a large workplace, everything could be going to hell and a handbasket and there's nobody around to translate your plain english!
This is the world I currently live in since comming to work 10 minutes ago.
Watch crappy butchering of a novel.....or get one step closer to my felsteed....
wasnt a hard choice.
Is if it were titled: Watchmen.....Verbatim.
There isnt a director in the world I would trust with making this movie, this is a sad sad day in geek history.
And to think I wasted all my moderator points yesterday on that stupid starwars complete set dvd version "whatever" story.
Spaceballs on regular TV is ok....spaceballs on cable or in FULL vulger language mode is fucking hillarious.
If I want to experience a few seconds of 0 gravity ill just fly southwestern airlines again.
"pardon me son, did we land or were we shot down?"
Grab a cheap stungun/cattleprod from the next gunshow, rig it to the relay that activates when the light sensor is tagged. Attach leeds from the stungun to the wearee's body.
Viola, now whenever you get tagged not only are you embarrassed but your jiggling and peeing yourself as well. Fun for the whole family.
Im 32 years old (in a couple days), thankfully i run a small buisness network of 60 systems spread out across a city. But if my job ever went south again i always thought i could fall back into computer/networking phone support once again. But unlike 10 years ago it seems there are little oportunities for someone my age to work in such a field, first because most of those jobs got shipped off to malaysia and india (fuck you dell), and now because im over the hill. Seems to be yet another reason to hang onto my current job with a iron griop.
Ok after this ill be one millitary issue laser rifle short of living out my childhood dreams of hunting down psychic ex-best friends.
Hell just file against 192.168.0.0-255 and get it over with.
Then work on 172.16.#.#
You know they wanna.
They are assuming we go out into the sunshine, hell i spend my entire work day in a windowless closet of a server room with the light out to keep the heat down.
This is a brilliant cure by a brilliant team, may they handle all future challenges as efficiently. Hey Mcaffee try pulling that trick outa yer ass.