san francisco still has tons of mom and pops.. i heard somewhere that they actually had zoning laws that prohibited places like home depot from moving in..
i like the chains.. the mom and pops rip you off.
but if you really want an organic, hand fed, vitamin free, virgin hamburger for 11.95 (and im not making this up) sf is the place to be.
I know what you mean, i was about 12 years old when doom first came out.. it was the first fps I had ever played and that game scared the crap out of me.
Others have been a little more scary, like half-life and the head crabs in tunnels but nothing will ever surpass doom.
i think that cue cat thing was somehow related to your idea.. but i never figured out what the hell the cue cat really did.. but i had one.. and thats all that matters.
the program shuts off, and then users are forced to watch full screen ads for durations of approximately 5 minutes at a time.
the newest internet ads are attempting to do more or less the same thing with the exception that users will have to click to remove the ad and on tv people just sit there and it is removed for them.
the two advertising methods really aren't that much different.
if you start this club, you can kiss your social life goodbye.
as shallow as it sounds, i had no friends my freshman year in high school, i ran around talking about doom etc. then my friend, who introduced me to irc, etc, came to me and said "want friends? dont talk about computers"
he was right.. i vowed to never talk about computers in public again and the rest of high school was a blast..i was invited to parties, nights out, sure it was shallow as hell that the kids did this to me but hell, stereotypes are stereotypes.
he obviously knows which strings to pull to get killer contract assignments.. this being said it may be the case that he simply got an offer in the private sector that he couldn't refuse.
I'm not sure if the folks at ID software working on doom 3 are going to be able to beat the folks at valve in terms of immersive storytelling and player interaction.
Let's face it, quake I and II weren't all that immersive, quake III wasn't even in the category.
Half Life was so revolutionary because it brought the story telling/involvement aspect to into a stale shoot-em-up line up.
Now with half life 2 and doom 3 possibly coming out around the same time, I think it's going to be interesting to see if ID can make a game as immersive as half life and also to see if valve can exceed half life and make half-life 2 even better.
I think you're definately right when it comes to a lack of investigative reporting. I think these days it boils down to most media outlets being too afraid to do the kind of potentially damaging investigative reporting that we have seen in the past. The media industry depends too much on interest groups, and keeping businesses happy so that they will pay for advertising.
If there is one last bastion of hope for investigative reporting it's in local media. I know in San Diego and San Francisco they have segments like the "troubleshooter" etc. that act as miniature consumer watchdogs. You're right about the big network news though, it will soon be dead.
how you can lose 7.5 million dollars on a web site.. I thought 5 dollars a month for hosting was bad.. but I find it hard to even grasp the concept of a 7.5 million dollar web site.
as someone who studies marketing and org. comm. i found the "eligability survey" philips required very suspicious.
The questions they asked were more or less market research questions and I found it difficult to see the relevance that those questions might have in determining a persons ability to test a product.
I could be wrong, but I suspect they use these signups as a way to whore people into providing marketing information such as demographics etc.
I speculate the actual hardware test itself is a front for this.
i had this dispute with burlee.com, they offer unlimited space and bandwith and then bill you a "non-disputable service charge" of $250 to $500 for each "infraction". Before i knew it, my $120/yr hosting was now $600+ . I reported them to the bbb along with at least 10 other people. Some guys were charged over $1000 and then took burlee to court...i felt sorry for them.
things are pretty horrible in the bay area as well in terms of tech jobs.. ever since the dotcom collapse it left a slew of techies jobless.. all of which are more or less qualified and with more work experience than someone right out of college. I dropped my cs minor because of this.
The only time I've been let down is when i purchased coffee from a little gas station on interstate 5 in CA (aka the green spot on the map of CA). It tasted like toilet water and probably was.
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This technology is great..unfortunately I think people are more excited about matrix sequels.
san francisco still has tons of mom and pops.. i heard somewhere that they actually had zoning laws that prohibited places like home depot from moving in..
i like the chains.. the mom and pops rip you off.
but if you really want an organic, hand fed, vitamin free, virgin hamburger for 11.95 (and im not making this up) sf is the place to be.
I played f19! you rule. I was around the same age too.. that game was great.
I know what you mean, i was about 12 years old when doom first came out.. it was the first fps I had ever played and that game scared the crap out of me.
Others have been a little more scary, like half-life and the head crabs in tunnels but nothing will ever surpass doom.
i think that cue cat thing was somehow related to your idea.. but i never figured out what the hell the cue cat really did.. but i had one.. and thats all that matters.
think about TV for a second,
the program shuts off, and then users are forced to watch full screen ads for durations of approximately 5 minutes at a time.
the newest internet ads are attempting to do more or less the same thing with the exception that users will have to click to remove the ad and on tv people just sit there and it is removed for them.
the two advertising methods really aren't that much different.
couldnt have said it better myself, this guy has no idea what he's getting himself into.. so early in high school too.
if you start this club, you can kiss your social life goodbye.
as shallow as it sounds, i had no friends my freshman year in high school, i ran around talking about doom etc. then my friend, who introduced me to irc, etc, came to me and said "want friends? dont talk about computers"
he was right.. i vowed to never talk about computers in public again and the rest of high school was a blast..i was invited to parties, nights out, sure it was shallow as hell that the kids did this to me but hell, stereotypes are stereotypes.
this all changes in college.
well said.
my young mexican girlfriend votes, how does she fit into your equation?
dumbass liberal.
he obviously knows which strings to pull to get killer contract assignments.. this being said it may be the case that he simply got an offer in the private sector that he couldn't refuse.
I'm not sure if the folks at ID software working on doom 3 are going to be able to beat the folks at valve in terms of immersive storytelling and player interaction.
Let's face it, quake I and II weren't all that immersive, quake III wasn't even in the category.
Half Life was so revolutionary because it brought the story telling/involvement aspect to into a stale shoot-em-up line up.
Now with half life 2 and doom 3 possibly coming out around the same time, I think it's going to be interesting to see if ID can make a game as immersive as half life and also to see if valve can exceed half life and make half-life 2 even better.
my main gripe with newspapers is that by the time you get them, you already read the story on the web yesterday.
The WSJ for example, except for the independent articles and reviews most of the news they carry is a day late.
I think you're definately right when it comes to a lack of investigative reporting. I think these days it boils down to most media outlets being too afraid to do the kind of potentially damaging investigative reporting that we have seen in the past. The media industry depends too much on interest groups, and keeping businesses happy so that they will pay for advertising.
If there is one last bastion of hope for investigative reporting it's in local media. I know in San Diego and San Francisco they have segments like the "troubleshooter" etc. that act as miniature consumer watchdogs. You're right about the big network news though, it will soon be dead.
how you can lose 7.5 million dollars on a web site.. I thought 5 dollars a month for hosting was bad.. but I find it hard to even grasp the concept of a 7.5 million dollar web site.
we really need a more wide angle shot of the robot working.. just for uhh..scale of course.
as someone who studies marketing and org. comm. i found the "eligability survey" philips required very suspicious.
The questions they asked were more or less market research questions and I found it difficult to see the relevance that those questions might have in determining a persons ability to test a product.
I could be wrong, but I suspect they use these signups as a way to whore people into providing marketing information such as demographics etc.
I speculate the actual hardware test itself is a front for this.
i've watched it, it's disgusting ....
MOAB MOAB MOAB!
i had this dispute with burlee.com, they offer unlimited space and bandwith and then bill you a "non-disputable service charge" of $250 to $500 for each "infraction". Before i knew it, my $120/yr hosting was now $600+ . I reported them to the bbb along with at least 10 other people. Some guys were charged over $1000 and then took burlee to court...i felt sorry for them.
things are pretty horrible in the bay area as well in terms of tech jobs.. ever since the dotcom collapse it left a slew of techies jobless.. all of which are more or less qualified and with more work experience than someone right out of college. I dropped my cs minor because of this.
i was thinking the same thing.. christ.. 30 more minutes and you could hit san francisco and at least get some decent chinese food..
but placerville.. my god.. its the home of the happy cows.
this is the most intelligent response I've read yet.
Coffee works everyday, hands down.
The only time I've been let down is when i purchased coffee from a little gas station on interstate 5 in CA (aka the green spot on the map of CA). It tasted like toilet water and probably was.
" they have accumulated the largest known database in the world, which grows at one terabyte per day."
what kind of information does this contain? I cant imagine a database that big.
this must be why team fortress 2 is taking so long!