And maybe when they are done, they can store them in rusting canisters in a medical storage facility. Where those said canisters can accidently be punctured by a fire axe, and spread the now mutated organism through the air.
And after the chop up and burn the cadivers, it can be spread to a nearby graveyard !!
COOL!
U.S. Govt: "And now we award Dr. Romaro's development research team their requested grant."
I have mild Tinnitus myself, and have problems distinguishing folks in a crowd of people. [The guy across the room sounds lounder than the guy infront of me.]
At night I need to sleep with a white noise machine or all i hear is a soft ringing in my ears.
How does this affect your acting, does it / did it make it any harder on to keep on cue ?
Have you ever had to turn down work or a gig due to the hearing issues / threats ?
[sorry about the repost, I inadvertantly posted under another user's comment]
I have mild Tinnitus myself, and have problems distinguishing folks in a crowd of people. [The guy across the room sounds lounder than the guy infront of me.]
At night I need to sleep with a white noise machine or all i hear is a soft ringing in my ears.
How does this affect your acting, does it / did it make it any harder on to keep on cue ?
Have you ever had to turn down work or a gig due to the hearing issues / threats ?
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A Mathametician, An Engineer, and A Physicist were all kidnapped by aliens.
On the Alien's Science Ship , they were all placed at one end of a 1,000 foot hallway, with the sexiest nude human woman they had ever seen located at the opposite end of the hall.
A gutteral alien voice came over a hidden intercom and explained to them.. that upon hearing a chime - they would be allowed to move 1/2 the distance to the female, and every chime after that they would be allowed to move 1/2 the remaining distance. When they reached her, they were allowed to do what came naturally.
The mathamatician and the Physicsit were locked into a heated discussion when the first gong shouted. The Engineer was off like a SHOT. After about the 3rd chime - The mathamatician shouted down the hall to the Engineer:
"Hey ! We determined that if you move only 1/2 the remaining distance every chime, you will never actually reach the girl."
To which the Engineer responded "So what ??! , in another 10 minutes i'll be close enough for practicle purposes."
I dunno I have over 100 gigs of 192encoded mp3s. thats over 600 albums.. maybe 100 of them tops I do not own. I would say.. on average.. that i buy (or have bought in the past) most of the albums i have downloaded - if i like them. [i may keep albums that are borderline.. but i nuke the ones that have nothing i like on them, no space to keep the dead weight around.]
A *LOT* of the albums i download are albums I have owned in the past.. are no longer produced, or I cant seem to get my local cd shops to order.
For example.. if anyone can find me T-Ride's only cd.. I'll buy it from them.. until then.. ill have to use my only copy.. which i downloaded. [i still own the audio tape.. regardless of it being 1/2 demagnatized.]
Sometimes ill get new stuff that I have not heard yet. To see if I like it.. if i like it enough.. ill buy it.. if i can find the cd around.
What is really funny.. is at LEAST HALF of the 500 or so cd's i have were bought from 2nd hand music shops.. rather than pay $16 for a new cd.. i can buy it for $5.
I would think.. that this costs the record lables a hell of a lot more than the people that download. they certainly don't see any of the 2nd hand money.
I believe however.. that the author's point on this matter was that.. having the source code is moot - if you don't have staff skilled enough to do something with it. [Or possibly if your org doesnt have the resources to have enough staff on hand to allow them the time.]
I fin, in my professional envoronment, one of the biggest corporate fears of open source, is just that. Companies [like mine, which makes power tools] want to do THEIR focus, not maintain someone else's code.
When it comes down to it.. our company will hire 5 engineers to design next years product, before they will hire one part time IT person.
While that doesnt make sence to you or me, [cant work on a broken infastructre] it makes a lot of sence to finance. 5 engineers can produce 5-10 products to sell in a 2-3 year time. Each of which is worth millions. A favorite IT argument is 'but can they design those tools without a working computer?' and the favorite responce is 'we have been around since 1916 - I think we can do it if we need to. Can you buy more computers if we don't sell any tools this year ?'
[im paraphrasing of course]
I can only imagine how it is in a.gov org.. where not only do they pay less, but have to justify their expenses to tax payers.
So.. to end my long ramblings, I think the author mades a very 'real' point. Computer/development folks are not afraid of OSS. Honeslty we have all been using OSS since we went to college. Imagine if someone had patented the algorithm on bubble sort. But in a work environment, especially where they are short staffed - and can not allow people to specalize - OSS could wind up not being the best way to go.
http://www.blackanddecker.com lets see how this company takes on a multinational coorporation that is notoriously paranoid with patent laws - and has a legal precident along these lines. [Branding and presentation]
I'm pretty sure the cat is out of the bag on this one. [aside from the fact that I had thought you only have a limited amount of time before it becomes an almost impossible battle to win.]
For example.. Stanley Tools lost the ability to protect the colours Yellow & Black (in association with their name & brand) because Dewalt Tools produced power tools in those colours for X years and stanley didn't file suit.
When they TRIED [because Dewalt was gobbling up their professional market presence] they were rebuked and basically told 'You should have done something about it 5 years ago.'
This, I would think certainly sets precident, of WHAT im not sure.. Since last i checked.. the colours Yellow and Black were not exactly paid royalties for their 'creative process'.
No.. i read that point:P I also remind you that California is the land of frivilious lawsuits and trumped up charges.
*My* point was.. normal office drones don't get arrested for bringing home pen's with the company name on it.. or maybe a stapler.
Used story boards, and various other brick a brack that it sounded like this guy had.. could very much be the equalivant of pens & staplers if you worked for Lucas.
[Kinda like dice and Toy soldiers are the equalivant of pens & paper clips if you work for Games-Workshop]
He was arrested because they needed a scape goat to blame for EP II's lower-than-expected take in.. Now.. if YOU needed to justify your movie to someone/yourself.. and you KNEW Carl the goob always used to bring stuff home..
Is it easier to say 'Gee.. maybe since im 50.. im a little out of touch with what folks want.' or 'GOD DAMN that CARL ! I *KNEW* he leaked it.. thats why it did so bad.'
Lets face it folks, anyone who is a fan of something.. then finds themselves in a position of WORKING for a company that produces what they love.. is going to wind up with stuff.
I worked for games-workshop.. and man.. the stuff people would ask to take home. Big card board cutouts of orks.. dice.. tape measures with 'games-workshop' on them.
I personally have FOUR jackets given to me by the company.. some signed artwork from the studio in the UK, a japanese bayonette , [I helped start Gmaes-Workshop Japan], a few coffee mugs from the studio I worked in, (we were all given mugs) and tonnes of toy soldiers that were not released.
The studio often passed out copies of rules for games that were not out yet.. asking folks to take them home and read them over (i have a bunch of this stuff still to.)
My point being, this kid worked for friggen STAR WARS. If he really was such a goober on this stuff.. of COURSE he brought some stuff home.. Hell.. some or all of it could have even been legimitate.
I work for Black & Decker now.. and every once in a while someone will give me one of the tools they are producing.. if to say 'thanks for working on my project' or to bribe me to get theirs done before someone elses.. it doesnt matter. These are written off by the guys who have 100's of them to give away.
SO lets get back to lucas. Some drafter is working on scenery.. has a few duplicates of storyboards to work off off (photo copies.. or what not) finishes his job.. and the geek who was running the rotoscoping camera over it asked if he was just gonna throw those out.
This guy thinkgs its kinda cute that the geek is drooling over a copy of this story board (that now has epoxy stuck to it) and makes his day by giving it to him.
Imagine, a REAL fan boy.. who gets himself into this situation as much as he can. [Knowing folks in the Video Game industry, at Games Workshop, At Wizards of the Coast.. I can rest assured from PERSONAL experience.. This happens ALL the time.. some geeks would rather take home something 'cool' from their job than go to lunch.. so the spend their lunch hours talking to the guys who don't need this stuff anymore.
Now is this going to be the case every time ? I don't know . but lets step back and look for a second. Its QUITE possible that all (or at least most) of the stuff this guy has.. was legimatly aquired.. or at least aquired the same way im sure 90% of the guys at SkyWalker Ranch have some cool prop from one of the movies at home.
I mean, WHO wouldnt ??
Ian McCullen has the door knocker off of Bilbo's Door at Bags End. Why is it so hard to believe that this guy... considering his job.. might have either brought this stuff home for work purposes.. or just cause he was a geek ?
I didn't really make it clear that my family & friends call my cel-phone.
[which is part of the reason I have a cel phone.. as my family is getting older.. medical emergencies come up a lot more frequently.. and with my cel, they can get me anywhere anytime. BOY is it scarey when that thing wakes me up at 3:00 am.]
But to play devil's advocate.. it takes a telephone 45 seconds to ring 10 times.
45 seconds is a long time when your waiting for someone to pick up.. but quite a short time when your in the shower with shampoo streaming down your face.
Last I checked.. it encourages open communication when people RESPONDED to posts.. not modded them down because they didn't agree with them.
You can mod this post if you wish.. however.. at least I'm not a Karma Whore and I dont hide Anonymously.
Really though, What happened to the idea that this was a DISCUSSION board.
One gentleman states 'contrairy to popular opinion' that everyone should TALK to all the telemarkers [which.. technically.. could almost be -1 OFFTOPIC since the article is about telemarking stopping MACHINES - not about everyones opinions on telemarketers.] And I refute his opitnion opening it for discussion.
How exciting would/. be if everyone who didnt say 'Ayup- thats right on' got modded down ?
well *This* 'jerk' doesn't own a TV.. and I jog 10 miles a day if I can help it.
it has nothing to do with my 'fat' ass and pause buttons.. and everything to do with the fact that I don't want some random stranger.. calling me at 8:00 at night.. trying to get me to change my long distance service.
[Just an aside: I found myself wondering why you give the concept of a Fat person negative connotation. I don't see how body size or conditiong has ANYTHING to do with how good of a person someone is. Or answering the phone for that matter.. but thats just pouring salt now.]
If I want to change my long distance carrier.. believe me.. i have the ability to dial their number myself.
As to your equation of Answer Phone = Obtain More Friends Again.. your arguing a non-sequter
I don't see ANY direct corolation to picking up telemarketing calls obtaining me more/better friends.
Personally, I prefer to spend time with my friends *DOING* something.. not talking on the phone.
*MY* whole point here.. is that telemarkers call my phone more often than legitimite callers do.
And if you extracted your head from your posterior.. you might have made the intuitive leap that:
a) in order to know that 1 in 10 calls are telemarketers *I HAVE TO ANSWER ALL TEN CALLS* b) in order to be asked to be removed from their list *I HAVE TO ANSWER ALL TEN CALLS*
*knock knock* Did I make any statements that said "What I like to do is NOT answer my phone, especially when friends call.. that way I can cackle maniacally with a ringing phone in the background as I take them for granted."
What I DO see.. is you.. calling me a "bad person" with no friends because I don't seem to fit your moral values of "Be Kind to Telemarketeres and Turn the Other Ring."
If wanting my privacy respectes makes me a jerk.. Than I'm the biggest-loudest-motherfuckerest-jerk you'll ever meet.
Oh.. and if a driver ahead of me sits still at a green light for more that 10 seconds.. I honk my horn too ! TAKE THAT !
Umm That is a very 'Liberal' outlook. "Everyone should answer their phone.. its common courtesy"
What kind of crack are you on ?
You might as well say "Everyone should turn on their TV to channel 4.. its common courtesy" or "Everyone should go to my web page and click my banner ad.. its common courtesy" or "Everyone should get all the money they need.. and rich people should pay for it.. its common courtesy" [ok.. maybe that last one was a little too far.. but that just proves how much telemarketers push me over the edge.]
My phone , (last i checked) is in MY house.. and I pay MY money to operate it. What is sad.. is I also have a Cel phone.. and thats the only number I give out to friends.. I never give out our house phone number,becuase 9 out of 10 calls are telemarketers. Thats becuase the people/businesses I gave it to lack "Common Courtesy" and placed me on call lists.. or sold my information to someone else.
[for example.. I went home yesterday for lunch.. and had ELEVEN messages on my machine. all from telemarketing companies.]
So explain to me again why I need to answer everyone of my phone calls.. when I *KNOW* that i don't even give that number out anymore ?
If I don't want to talk to someone.. be they on my phone.. my front door.. or my computer - there is no rule of ediquette that says I have to cheerfully exchange the time of day to them.
My telemarketing responses are generally along the lines of "Don't fucking call my house. Put me on your DO NOT CALL LIST - If you call my house again.. I will SUE you for harassment." [after obtaining their company information of course]
either that.. or I tell them that the person they are looking for is dead.
Does it bother you that the fed's went after a smaller group like drink or die, but ignored groups like Razor or Fairlight which are arguably larger and more organized? I mean.. Fairlight has been around 13 years at least.
I agree with you, and hope someone mod's this post up.
All the folks out there who are slamming web developers/authors really need to step back a second. [I'm amazed that my first post in this topic already has 3 "You should code better" responses.]
I have been working with 'web' pages professionally since late 97.
And man has stuff changed.
Anyone who works in the real world (not academia) understands that not only is there the pressure of a 'real world' environment - but the need to show value for a company.
Understaffed departments, unreasonable demands, HUGE goals. Those are the factors that REALLY limit the 'good code' out there. Its very hard to make sure your 100% compliant [no matter how hard you tell the board/your boss/your dept/the finance people that you SHOULD be] when at the end of the day - you have more 'new' projects in your inbox than ones you have finished.
[and before folks cry - TELL THEM ! TELL THEM ! We are in an economy now.. where people are HORRIBLY disillusioned with the internet. I work for a fortune 500 which produces power tools - and it has been kicked around previously the idea of actually SCRAPPING our web-based projects. Hows that for a scarey morning meeting to walk in on:(]
but I digress.. my real point is.. standards change, and 'mega-powers' in the browser world ignore them anyways.
HTML that was 100% w3c 4 years ago.. is maybe 80% now. [good and bad.. means that html is more versatile.. but means that you have to recode that stuff.]
XML.. geez.. I have been using it at work for about 3 years now.. and for a 'universaly standard' language.. its sure been through the damn wringer.
I can write some xml/xsl for IIS.. and put it on a unix box and watch it puke. [and vica versa]. The standards on this 'universally adaptable' langage have changed so many times in the past few years my head is still spinning. [clarification.. i dont mean the 'Official Top Shelf writtin in stone' standards.. I mean the ones that are in the real world.. MS for example. Its not a surprise they tweek things.. but when a major player in the software dept {yeah yeah} produces something sub-standard.. how long before it BECOMES part of the standards? even if its unwritten?]
Correction.. I mean to say my employer's website, which uses asp/javascript/VB
{and technically.. my personal website uses PHP.which is just getting parsed into html for your browser}
however.. if you would read the article.. even basic HTML can be corrupted..
IE 5.5 will support nested tables up to 7 in depth. Netscape 6 will only support up to 4 in depth.
Netscape 4.7 does not require quotes around 'field' tags like width or height. Netscape 6.0 can do unusual things if they are not there.
the problem (as stated in the article) is that becuase of the past 'browser wars' fighting for dominance.. previous incarnations of browsers tolerated (and corrected) sloppy html.
Now that everyone is trying (or at least saying they are) getting on the w3 bandwagon. These little 'faults' are starting to cause errors.
And since the vast majority of web pusblishers and early adopters out there have not received *formal* training in html [I for example.. got my CS degree in 1994.. i never even learned visual basic in college] they are/were not always *aware* of things that html 'requires' but the browsers let them get away with.
It worked in all the current browsers a year ago. but with IE 6 and the new netscape coming out - you would *THINK* there would be backwards compatability.
However, I get e-mails all the time from things that are now 'suddenly' broke. And after verifying what browser/etc the user encountered this error with - amazingly enough.. pages that work with older browsers - are choking up the newer ones.
When i pull up to a traffic light, and see the driver in front of me [who just cut me off, or TOTALLY failed to see me and almost side swiped me - Although im not sure HOW you can just 'totally miss' a 1200cc Harley rumbling next to you.] I take great pleasure in reaching down the side of my bike.. and pulling the choke out.
It becomes very difficult for them to hear , and thus eliminates the problem of a 'distracted' driver on their cel-phone.
Only one lady so far has actually had the audacity to point out she was trying to make a call on her phone.. and did I have to make so much noise.
I replied "This is only about 1/2 the noise I was making when you almost side swiped me 50 seconds ago, and it looked to me like you were having NO problems talking on your phone then."
[She had the good graces to look embarrised then.]
200 ft is much less than another 2500 foot store hawking t-shirts and boardwalk crap in Ocean City, MD [where i think these things would clean up!] Rather than have 100 shops that all sell suntan oil, 70';s iron on decal t-shirts, and assorted crap, put a dozen of these babys in, free up all that space, and put more restraunts, or hell.. ANYTHING.
what i don't understand is folks complaining about how dehumanizing these are.
How is the 'inhumanity' of this machine a factor? Does the bored teenager/non english speaker/insaine freak behind the counter at a 7-11 REALLY provide you with a pleasant and memorable transaction? [Last time I walked into a 7-11.. i was greeted by the teenage teller pocketing all the pennies from the penny cup.]
Or what about when I walk into a gas station and can't find a single person there who can speak the native tounge of the area. (english.)
No joke, maybe im just getting old, or maybe its different in New England or something, but when I was a kid - i remember being able to stop at a gas station and ask directions.
Last week I was looking for a Dr.'s office in Towson MD. I stopped at a gas station and asked them where [X street was]. They had no idea. [or I gathered they had no idea, as they kept shouting 'no english, IDUNNO' at me.
I gave up asking the attendants, and called the dr.'s office from the phone outside the gas station. The receptionist answered the phone, and when I told her where I was - she answered cryptically "Turn around."
I did, and she was waving at me from inside the office across the street.
Ok - bad on me for not realizing I *wasn't* lost.. but I was in a strange area that I had never been to before. I wan't to know what the excuse of the folks who WORKED on the street and still didn't know it was.
of course, these machines don't have a map module yet . but GAWSH.. imagine if you could pay it a buck and get printed directions..
then again.. it probally would get them from map quest:(
if we pollute the planet and use up its natural resources to the point where we can survive.. its not going to have much of an impact on the 'planet's' life span.
the worse we (as humanity) can do is kill ourselves off.
the planet will recover/repair itself after we are dead.
"These are some of the icons that were designed for individual player stations by Shannon Potratz, the lead conceptional designer for Agyris.net... Each player station will have it's own iconic identity, which will be painted on the wall of each one, and also on the Game Master side next to each sphere hole! The icons themselves symbolize the elements of change and decay, Creatures and Gods, in the World of Agyris."
The icons themselves symbolize just *HOW* much time I spent playing Magic:The Gathering. But since I changed them around on my giant POOLTABLE, they now mean various geeky ingame things about chaos and checkers or something.
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And maybe when they are done, they can store them in rusting canisters in a medical storage facility. Where those said canisters can accidently be punctured by a fire axe, and spread the now mutated organism through the air.
And after the chop up and burn the cadivers, it can be spread to a nearby graveyard !!
COOL!
U.S. Govt: "And now we award Dr. Romaro's development research team their requested grant."
How do you cope with this ?
I have mild Tinnitus myself, and have problems distinguishing folks in a crowd of people. [The guy across the room sounds lounder than the guy infront of me.]
At night I need to sleep with a white noise machine or all i hear is a soft ringing in my ears.
How does this affect your acting, does it / did it make it any harder on to keep on cue ?
Have you ever had to turn down work or a gig due to the hearing issues / threats ?
[sorry about the repost, I inadvertantly posted under another user's comment]
How do you cope with this ?
I have mild Tinnitus myself, and have problems distinguishing folks in a crowd of people. [The guy across the room sounds lounder than the guy infront of me.]
At night I need to sleep with a white noise machine or all i hear is a soft ringing in my ears.
How does this affect your acting, does it / did it make it any harder on to keep on cue ?
Have you ever had to turn down work or a gig due to the hearing issues / threats ?
A Mathametician, An Engineer, and A Physicist were all kidnapped by aliens.
.. that upon hearing a chime - they would be allowed to move 1/2 the distance to the female, and every chime after that they would be allowed to move 1/2 the remaining distance. When they reached her, they were allowed to do what came naturally.
On the Alien's Science Ship , they were all placed at one end of a 1,000 foot hallway, with the sexiest nude human woman they had ever seen located at the opposite end of the hall.
A gutteral alien voice came over a hidden intercom and explained to them
The mathamatician and the Physicsit were locked into a heated discussion when the first gong shouted. The Engineer was off like a SHOT. After about the 3rd chime - The mathamatician shouted down the hall to the Engineer:
"Hey ! We determined that if you move only 1/2 the remaining distance every chime, you will never actually reach the girl."
To which the Engineer responded "So what ??! , in another 10 minutes i'll be close enough for practicle purposes."
*ba-rump-bum*
Everyone is railing on her and positing her number etc ..
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"I use the brush a lot because I often end up sleeping in odd places and this is the best way I have found for removing dust," he says.
.. wonder if one of his pockets contains 100mg tablets of Paxal ?
he doesnt worry about where he sleeps, but he worries wiether it is clean or not.
and always want to be prepaired.
Sounds like a little OCD
Actually .. and before that they were fserved in irc rooms.
.. that prevents people from hacking fast network connects to distribute big stuff.
Telesyncs were distributed long before Napster came about
p2p is just another tool
I dunno .. .. on average .. that i buy (or have bought in the past) most of the albums i have downloaded - if i like them. .. but i nuke the ones that have nothing i like on them, no space to keep the dead weight around.]
.. are no longer produced, or I cant seem to get my local cd shops to order.
.. if anyone can find me T-Ride's only cd .. I'll buy it from them .. until then .. ill have to use my only copy .. which i downloaded. [i still own the audio tape .. regardless of it being 1/2 demagnatized.]
.. if i like it enough .. ill buy it .. if i can find the cd around.
.. is at LEAST HALF of the 500 or so cd's i have were bought from 2nd hand music shops .. rather than pay $16 for a new cd .. i can buy it for $5.
.. that this costs the record lables a hell of a lot more than the people that download. they certainly don't see any of the 2nd hand money.
I have over 100 gigs of 192encoded mp3s.
thats over 600 albums
maybe 100 of them tops I do not own.
I would say
[i may keep albums that are borderline
A *LOT* of the albums i download are albums I have owned in the past
For example
Sometimes ill get new stuff that I have not heard yet. To see if I like it
What is really funny
I would think
I believe however .. that the author's point on this matter was that .. having the source code is moot - if you don't have staff skilled enough to do something with it. [Or possibly if your org doesnt have the resources to have enough staff on hand to allow them the time.]
.. our company will hire 5 engineers to design next years product, before they will hire one part time IT person.
.gov org .. where not only do they pay less, but have to justify their expenses to tax payers.
.. to end my long ramblings, I think the author mades a very 'real' point. Computer/development folks are not afraid of OSS. Honeslty we have all been using OSS since we went to college. Imagine if someone had patented the algorithm on bubble sort. But in a work environment, especially where they are short staffed - and can not allow people to specalize - OSS could wind up not being the best way to go.
I fin, in my professional envoronment, one of the biggest corporate fears of open source, is just that. Companies [like mine, which makes power tools] want to do THEIR focus, not maintain someone else's code.
When it comes down to it
While that doesnt make sence to you or me, [cant work on a broken infastructre] it makes a lot of sence to finance. 5 engineers can produce 5-10 products to sell in a 2-3 year time. Each of which is worth millions. A favorite IT argument is 'but can they design those tools without a working computer?' and the favorite responce is 'we have been around since 1916 - I think we can do it if we need to. Can you buy more computers if we don't sell any tools this year ?'
[im paraphrasing of course]
I can only imagine how it is in a
So
and *OH* how it hurts to say that.
http://www.blackanddecker.com
.. Stanley Tools lost the ability to protect the colours Yellow & Black (in association with their name & brand) because Dewalt Tools produced power tools in those colours for X years and stanley didn't file suit.
.. Since last i checked .. the colours Yellow and Black were not exactly paid royalties for their 'creative process'.
lets see how this company takes on a
multinational coorporation that is notoriously paranoid with patent laws - and has a legal precident along these lines. [Branding and presentation]
I'm pretty sure the cat is out of the bag on this one. [aside from the fact that I had thought you only have a limited amount of time before it becomes an almost impossible battle to win.]
For example
When they TRIED [because Dewalt was gobbling up their professional market presence] they were rebuked and basically told 'You should have done something about it 5 years ago.'
This, I would think certainly sets precident, of WHAT im not sure
No .. i read that point :P
.. normal office drones don't get arrested for bringing home pen's with the company name on it .. or maybe a stapler.
.. could very much be the equalivant of pens & staplers if you worked for Lucas.
.. Now .. if YOU needed to justify your movie to someone/yourself .. and you KNEW Carl the goob always used to bring stuff home ..
.. maybe since im 50 .. im a little out of touch with what folks want.' or 'GOD DAMN that CARL ! I *KNEW* he leaked it .. thats why it did so bad.'
I also remind you that California is the land of frivilious lawsuits and trumped up charges.
*My* point was
Used story boards, and various other brick a brack that it sounded like this guy had
[Kinda like dice and Toy soldiers are the equalivant of pens & paper clips if you work for Games-Workshop]
He was arrested because they needed a scape goat to blame for EP II's lower-than-expected take in
Is it easier to say 'Gee
Which one seems to fit human nature better ?
Lets face it folks, anyone who is a fan of something .. then finds themselves in a position of WORKING for a company that produces what they love .. is going to wind up with stuff.
.. and man .. the stuff people would ask to take home. Big card board cutouts of orks .. dice .. tape measures with 'games-workshop' on them.
.. some signed artwork from the studio in the UK, a japanese bayonette , [I helped start Gmaes-Workshop Japan], a few coffee mugs from the studio I worked in, (we were all given mugs) and tonnes of toy soldiers that were not released.
.. asking folks to take them home and read them over (i have a bunch of this stuff still to.)
.. of COURSE he brought some stuff home .. Hell .. some or all of it could have even been legimitate.
.. and every once in a while someone will give me one of the tools they are producing .. if to say 'thanks for working on my project' or to bribe me to get theirs done before someone elses .. it doesnt matter. These are written off by the guys who have 100's of them to give away.
.. has a few duplicates of storyboards to work off off (photo copies .. or what not) finishes his job .. and the geek who was running the rotoscoping camera over it asked if he was just gonna throw those out.
.. who gets himself into this situation as much as he can. [Knowing folks in the Video Game industry, at Games Workshop, At Wizards of the Coast .. I can rest assured from PERSONAL experience .. This happens ALL the time .. some geeks would rather take home something 'cool' from their job than go to lunch .. so the spend their lunch hours talking to the guys who don't need this stuff anymore.
.. was legimatly aquired .. or at least aquired the same way im sure 90% of the guys at SkyWalker Ranch have some cool prop from one of the movies at home.
... considering his job .. might have either brought this stuff home for work purposes .. or just cause he was a geek ?
I worked for games-workshop
I personally have FOUR jackets given to me by the company
The studio often passed out copies of rules for games that were not out yet
My point being, this kid worked for friggen STAR WARS. If he really was such a goober on this stuff
I work for Black & Decker now
SO lets get back to lucas. Some drafter is working on scenery
This guy thinkgs its kinda cute that the geek is drooling over a copy of this story board (that now has epoxy stuck to it) and makes his day by giving it to him.
Imagine, a REAL fan boy
Now is this going to be the case every time ? I don't know . but lets step back and look for a second. Its QUITE possible that all (or at least most) of the stuff this guy has
I mean, WHO wouldnt ??
Ian McCullen has the door knocker off of Bilbo's Door at Bags End. Why is it so hard to believe that this guy
See .. now i see where our disconnect was.
.. as my family is getting older .. medical emergencies come up a lot more frequently .. and with my cel, they can get me anywhere anytime. BOY is it scarey when that thing wakes me up at 3:00 am.]
.. it takes a telephone 45 seconds to ring 10 times.
.. but quite a short time when your in the shower with shampoo streaming down your face.
I didn't really make it clear that my family & friends call my cel-phone.
[which is part of the reason I have a cel phone
But to play devil's advocate
45 seconds is a long time when your waiting for someone to pick up
*heh* not like thats a real life example.
Last I checked .. it encourages open communication when people RESPONDED to posts .. not modded them down because they didn't agree with them.
.. however .. at least I'm not a Karma Whore and I dont hide Anonymously.
.. technically .. could almost be -1 OFFTOPIC since the article is about telemarking stopping MACHINES - not about everyones opinions on telemarketers.] And I refute his opitnion opening it for discussion.
/. be if everyone who didnt say 'Ayup- thats right on' got modded down ?
You can mod this post if you wish
Really though, What happened to the idea that this was a DISCUSSION board.
One gentleman states 'contrairy to popular opinion' that everyone should TALK to all the telemarkers [which
How exciting would
well .. and I jog 10 miles a day if I can help it.
.. and everything to do with the fact that I don't want some random stranger .. calling me at 8:00 at night .. trying to get me to change my long distance service.
.. but thats just pouring salt now.]
.. believe me .. i have the ability to dial their number myself.
.. your arguing a non-sequter
.. not talking on the phone.
.. is that telemarkers call my phone more often than legitimite callers do.
.. you might have made the intuitive leap that:
.. that way I can cackle maniacally with a ringing phone in the background as I take them for granted."
.. is you .. calling me a "bad person" with no friends because I don't seem to fit your moral values of "Be Kind to Telemarketeres and Turn the Other Ring."
.. Than I'm the biggest-loudest-motherfuckerest-jerk you'll ever meet.
.. and if a driver ahead of me sits still at a green light for more that 10 seconds .. I honk my horn too ! TAKE THAT !
*This* 'jerk' doesn't own a TV
it has nothing to do with my 'fat' ass and pause buttons
[Just an aside: I found myself wondering why you give the concept of a Fat person negative connotation. I don't see how body size or conditiong has ANYTHING to do with how good of a person someone is. Or answering the phone for that matter
If I want to change my long distance carrier
As to your equation of
Answer Phone = Obtain More Friends
Again
I don't see ANY direct corolation to picking up telemarketing calls obtaining me more/better friends.
Personally, I prefer to spend time with my friends *DOING* something
*MY* whole point here
And if you extracted your head from your posterior
a) in order to know that 1 in 10 calls are telemarketers *I HAVE TO ANSWER ALL TEN CALLS*
b) in order to be asked to be removed from their list *I HAVE TO ANSWER ALL TEN CALLS*
*knock knock* Did I make any statements that said "What I like to do is NOT answer my phone, especially when friends call
What I DO see
If wanting my privacy respectes makes me a jerk
Oh
*grin*
Umm .. its common courtesy"
.. its common courtesy" or "Everyone should go to my web page and click my banner ad .. its common courtesy" or "Everyone should get all the money they need .. and rich people should pay for it .. its common courtesy" .. maybe that last one was a little too far .. but that just proves how much telemarketers push me over the edge.]
.. and I pay MY money to operate it. What is sad .. is I also have a Cel phone .. and thats the only number I give out to friends .. I never give out our house phone number ,becuase 9 out of 10 calls are telemarketers. Thats becuase the people/businesses I gave it to lack "Common Courtesy" and placed me on call lists .. or sold my information to someone else.
.. I went home yesterday for lunch .. and had ELEVEN messages on my machine. all from telemarketing companies.]
.. when I *KNOW* that i don't even give that number out anymore ?
.. be they on my phone .. my front door .. or my computer - there is no rule of ediquette that says I have to cheerfully exchange the time of day to them.
.. I will SUE you for harassment." [after obtaining their company information of course]
.. or I tell them that the person they are looking for is dead.
That is a very 'Liberal' outlook.
"Everyone should answer their phone
What kind of crack are you on ?
You might as well say "Everyone should turn on their TV to channel 4
[ok
My phone , (last i checked) is in MY house
[for example
So explain to me again why I need to answer everyone of my phone calls
If I don't want to talk to someone
My telemarketing responses are generally along the lines of "Don't fucking call my house. Put me on your DO NOT CALL LIST - If you call my house again
either that
works like a charm.
Does it bother you that the fed's went after a smaller group like drink or die, but ignored groups like Razor or Fairlight which are arguably larger and more organized? I mean .. Fairlight has been around 13 years at least.
I agree with you, and hope someone mod's this post up.
.. where people are HORRIBLY disillusioned with the internet. I work for a fortune 500 which produces power tools - and it has been kicked around previously the idea of actually SCRAPPING our web-based projects. Hows that for a scarey morning meeting to walk in on :(]
.. my real point is .. standards change, and 'mega-powers' in the browser world ignore them anyways.
.. is maybe 80% now. [good and bad .. means that html is more versatile .. but means that you have to recode that stuff.]
.. geez .. I have been using it at work for about 3 years now .. and for a 'universaly standard' language .. its sure been through the damn wringer.
.. and put it on a unix box and watch it puke. [and vica versa]. The standards on this 'universally adaptable' langage have changed so many times in the past few years my head is still spinning. .. i dont mean the 'Official Top Shelf writtin in stone' standards .. I mean the ones that are in the real world .. MS for example. Its not a surprise they tweek things .. but when a major player in the software dept {yeah yeah} produces something sub-standard .. how long before it BECOMES part of the standards? even if its unwritten?]
.. I think your insights are dead on here.
All the folks out there who are slamming web developers/authors really need to step back a second. [I'm amazed that my first post in this topic already has 3 "You should code better" responses.]
I have been working with 'web' pages professionally since late 97.
And man has stuff changed.
Anyone who works in the real world (not academia) understands that not only is there the pressure of a 'real world' environment - but the need to show value for a company.
Understaffed departments, unreasonable demands, HUGE goals. Those are the factors that REALLY limit the 'good code' out there. Its very hard to make sure your 100% compliant [no matter how hard you tell the board/your boss/your dept/the finance people that you SHOULD be] when at the end of the day - you have more 'new' projects in your inbox than ones you have finished.
[and before folks cry - TELL THEM ! TELL THEM ! We are in an economy now
but I digress
HTML that was 100% w3c 4 years ago
XML
I can write some xml/xsl for IIS
[clarification
So yeah
Correction .. I mean to say my employer's website, which uses asp/javascript/VB
.. my personal website uses PHP .which is just getting parsed into html for your browser}
.. if you would read the article .. even basic HTML can be corrupted ..
.. previous incarnations of browsers tolerated (and corrected) sloppy html.
.. got my CS degree in 1994 .. i never even learned visual basic in college] they are/were not always *aware* of things that html 'requires' but the browsers let them get away with.
{and technically
however
IE 5.5 will support nested tables up to 7 in depth. Netscape 6 will only support up to 4 in depth.
Netscape 4.7 does not require quotes around 'field' tags like width or height.
Netscape 6.0 can do unusual things if they are not there.
the problem (as stated in the article) is that becuase of the past 'browser wars' fighting for dominance
Now that everyone is trying (or at least saying they are) getting on the w3 bandwagon. These little 'faults' are starting to cause errors.
And since the vast majority of web pusblishers and early adopters out there have not received *formal* training in html [I for example
5 years of bad habits become 2nd nature.
sorry for the confusion.
I cant even keep OUR damn site up and compliant.
.. pages that work with older browsers - are choking up the newer ones.
It worked in all the current browsers a year ago.
but with IE 6 and the new netscape coming out - you would *THINK* there would be backwards compatability.
However, I get e-mails all the time from things that are now 'suddenly' broke.
And after verifying what browser/etc the user encountered this error with - amazingly enough
*go figure*
When i pull up to a traffic light, and see the driver in front of me [who just cut me off, or TOTALLY failed to see me and almost side swiped me - Although im not sure HOW you can just 'totally miss' a 1200cc Harley rumbling next to you.] I take great pleasure in reaching down the side of my bike .. and pulling the choke out.
.. and did I have to make so much noise.
It becomes very difficult for them to hear , and thus eliminates the problem of a 'distracted' driver on their cel-phone.
Only one lady so far has actually had the audacity to point out she was trying to make a call on her phone
I replied "This is only about 1/2 the noise I was making when you almost side swiped me 50 seconds ago, and it looked to me like you were having NO problems talking on your phone then."
[She had the good graces to look embarrised then.]
This thing screams japan.
.. ANYTHING.
.. i was greeted by the teenage teller pocketing all the pennies from the penny cup.]
.. but I was in a strange area that I had never been to before. I wan't to know what the excuse of the folks who WORKED on the street and still didn't know it was.
.. imagine if you could pay it a buck and get printed directions ..
.. it probally would get them from map quest :(
200 ft is much less than another 2500 foot store hawking t-shirts and boardwalk crap in Ocean City, MD [where i think these things would clean up!]
Rather than have 100 shops that all sell suntan oil, 70';s iron on decal t-shirts, and assorted crap, put a dozen of these babys in, free up all that space, and put more restraunts, or hell
what i don't understand is folks complaining about how dehumanizing these are.
How is the 'inhumanity' of this machine a factor? Does the bored teenager/non english speaker/insaine freak behind the counter at a 7-11 REALLY provide you with a pleasant and memorable transaction? [Last time I walked into a 7-11
Or what about when I walk into a gas station and can't find a single person there who can speak the native tounge of the area. (english.)
No joke, maybe im just getting old, or maybe its different in New England or something, but when I was a kid - i remember being able to stop at a gas station and ask directions.
Last week I was looking for a Dr.'s office in Towson MD. I stopped at a gas station and asked them where [X street was]. They had no idea.
[or I gathered they had no idea, as they kept shouting 'no english, IDUNNO' at me.
I gave up asking the attendants, and called the dr.'s office from the phone outside the gas station. The receptionist answered the phone, and when I told her where I was - she answered cryptically "Turn around."
I did, and she was waving at me from inside the office across the street.
Ok - bad on me for not realizing I *wasn't* lost
of course, these machines don't have a map module yet . but GAWSH
then again
feel bad about humanity.
.. its not going to have much of an impact on the 'planet's' life span.
.
if we pollute the planet and use up its natural resources to the point where we can survive
the worse we (as humanity) can do is kill ourselves off
the planet will recover/repair itself after we are dead.
Are` daijobu ka?
..
Nihongo Haiku desu yo!
nihon arimasu.
Are you feeling well?
this is japanese haiku!
its has japanese.
hows THAT mr. smarty pants
still not traditional though *grumble*
"These are some of the icons that were designed for individual player stations by Shannon Potratz, the lead conceptional designer for Agyris.net... Each player station will have it's own iconic identity, which will be painted on the wall of each one, and also on the Game Master side next to each sphere hole! The icons themselves symbolize the elements of change and decay, Creatures and Gods, in the World of Agyris."
The icons themselves symbolize just *HOW* much time I spent playing Magic:The Gathering. But since I changed them around on my giant POOLTABLE, they now mean various geeky ingame things about chaos and checkers or something.