Better yet, replace Step 2 with:
Step 2: Have each 'rented' computer download, and make available for download, various movies and music. And Step 3 with:
Step 3: Profit! as the ??AA begins systematically attacking the botnet. And Step 4 with:
Step 4: Laugh with glee as dismembered pieces of ??AA executives and lawyers begin washing up on river banks.
Both — the diminishing of privacy and the abundance of misdirected advertising — are bad, and it is not at all obvious (to me), which is worse.
Remove the word 'misdirected' and I can agree.
Why the fuck should the act of paying for cell phone service result in an increased amount of advertising junk mail being sent to you, "well-targeted" or not?
A open Linux-based phone would be pretty great if it was of a good design. I wouldn't mind creating some Flex-based stuff on a platform like that, if it had enough horsepower to handle it. Surely you've heard of this? People link to it pretty often around here.
I don't really like my current Samsung PocketPC phone, and I don't like Apple's current policy with regard to software development for the iPhone. I'm hoping that things go well with OpenMoko and the Neo phone; I'd love a totally open Linux-based phone myself.
"Halting State" by Charles Stross has something similar. Very good so far, although the entire book seems to be in second person present tense, which is a bit of a distraction.
My impression from the movies was that they have some form of anti-gravity for taxiing, which could also make up for lack of lift during atmospheric flight.
Your joke takes it to the extreme, but I truly believe that these people wouldn't consider "listening" to be "stealing", but they might consider "remembering" to be stealing. After all, the act of remembering a song or movie is tantamount to keeping an unauthorized copy of the work in your head.
The ??AA's Holy Grail would be a technology that allowed people to pay money to experience their products and walk away with a good feeling about it (to encourage future sales), but at the same time render them unable to remember the specifics (to encourage paing money for the same thing again).
Or in other words, suppose you copied the backstory to Halo to Space Invaders. Evil covenant thingamabobs are invading Earth, and you have to kill them. You still couldn't say that Space Invaders had a great story. I actually own a paperback which is based on the Defender videogame, but haven't worked up the courage to try reading it yet...
At least for me I spent most of my happy hours with the illicit BattleMech and BattleFort games written by Ralph Reed for the Amiga. I, too, spent countless hours playing that. I especially loved designing mechs.
There's is a windows game called "Titans of Steel", which is inspired by Mechforce. I enthusiastically bought it a couple of years ago, but either I really, really suck, or the game is way, way too hard. Despite max'd pilot and gunnery skills for their level, my pilots couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, and were constantly falling down. I got so angry with the game, I popped it out of the CDROM drive and flung the CD across the room. It's still somewhere behind my bookshelves.
Occasionally I contemplating writing my own version of the game, maybe using pyGame, but can never seem to find the time:-(.
We're heading to Venus, and still we stand tall, because maybe they've seen us, and welcome us all. Though I would think that would be an ESA mission, and not a NASA one...
Heh, I used to walk into stores selling Apple ][ machines and leave the machines running a variant of that, which clicked the speaker, loaded a random character into the accumulator, output the character, then looped. Good times.
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For example, 'His winning the scholarship meant he could give up the job at burg-u-like'. Well, in that case, Your getting linux! Sentence fragment.
Both — the diminishing of privacy and the abundance of misdirected advertising — are bad, and it is not at all obvious (to me), which is worse.
Remove the word 'misdirected' and I can agree.Why the fuck should the act of paying for cell phone service result in an increased amount of advertising junk mail being sent to you, "well-targeted" or not?
I don't really like my current Samsung PocketPC phone, and I don't like Apple's current policy with regard to software development for the iPhone. I'm hoping that things go well with OpenMoko and the Neo phone; I'd love a totally open Linux-based phone myself.
Better than "Ballmer's Gate" if another company were doing the buying...
That's a good example, and I wasn't joking :-).
The Law of Fives is everywhere...
"Halting State" by Charles Stross has something similar. Very good so far, although the entire book seems to be in second person present tense, which is a bit of a distraction.
There's nothing so good that it can't be ruined by advertising.
Sounds like a great premise for a MMORPG :-).
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I'd vote for you :-).
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My impression from the movies was that they have some form of anti-gravity for taxiing, which could also make up for lack of lift during atmospheric flight.
Cut the chatter, Red 414242.
Your joke takes it to the extreme, but I truly believe that these people wouldn't consider "listening" to be "stealing", but they might consider "remembering" to be stealing. After all, the act of remembering a song or movie is tantamount to keeping an unauthorized copy of the work in your head.
The ??AA's Holy Grail would be a technology that allowed people to pay money to experience their products and walk away with a good feeling about it (to encourage future sales), but at the same time render them unable to remember the specifics (to encourage paing money for the same thing again).
There's is a windows game called "Titans of Steel", which is inspired by Mechforce. I enthusiastically bought it a couple of years ago, but either I really, really suck, or the game is way, way too hard. Despite max'd pilot and gunnery skills for their level, my pilots couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, and were constantly falling down. I got so angry with the game, I popped it out of the CDROM drive and flung the CD across the room. It's still somewhere behind my bookshelves.
Occasionally I contemplating writing my own version of the game, maybe using pyGame, but can never seem to find the time
We're heading to Venus, and still we stand tall, because maybe they've seen us, and welcome us all. Though I would think that would be an ESA mission, and not a NASA one...
Hmm, 1,200 miles north doesn't qualify as "local", does it? :-)
Take a look at V. I was addicted to LIST.COM in the DOS days, and V is an excellent successor.
Heh, I used to walk into stores selling Apple ][ machines and leave the machines running a variant of that, which clicked the speaker, loaded a random character into the accumulator, output the character, then looped. Good times.
Other nice un-bloated Windows utilities I'll add:
V, the file viewer
Foxit Reader for viewing PDFs
Crimson Editor for text files, though I more often use emacs.
That sounds interesting. Do you have any web presence for the project?