...like many of the amatuer harmonica players I was forced to listen to in college, no wonder cats hate it! I think, as a general rule, any intrument that will assault the ears unless played perfectly will be disliked by cats.
American pigeons all across the United States are staging "sit ins" to protest the new influx of cheap Indian labor. Most protests are centered around notable statues and monuments and also high atop government buildings, but there are also reports of millions of birds sitting atop vital telephone wires and strategiecally placed electrical towers, threatening silently the power they hold over our nation's digital infrastructure...
Now I can go "dumpster diving" once they throw out all the birds and pick up some spare parts. I've been looking for a new pigeon-hole router for months (My last one was destroyed when I mistook "CAT5" for "5 cats").
Your application will be approved about 6 weeks after the big media scandal when your terrorist hacking breaks into and completely destroys some of our military systems.
Yeah, lets all get stupid inventions that waste our time and contribute nothing to the world...
$$$We can all get rich!$$$
MY LIST:
1) Orbiting Solar Collectors/Solar Pumps that supply an virtually infinite amout of free energy to the world for the next 5-7 billion years.
2) Matter Replication/Creation device that either creates matter directly out of energy (to the used in conjuction with the above) or else uses nanotechnology to fabricate things when supplied with component molecules.
3) Safe Flying Personal Transportation that uses either next generation Spinning Disk (tm) technology, or just good old fashioned rotors. (incedentally, I mean safe as in "safe as a car". It doesn't have to be perfect, bust just good enough to let us all travel through the skies with reasonable minimal risk to ourselves and the world)
Fun fun fun, here's my counter ad: Some guy is painting, painting painting with purple paint until he has painted himself into a corner. Then, all he does it step on to the WALL (defying gravity) and finish painting that corner while walking sideways on the wall.
I wish you weren't right, but you are. This is exactly the kind of fractured thinking that leads to things like the decimation of the dotcom economy, and I have seen it run rampant in the last few companies I have worked at (yep, they all failed).
The problem is, the equations they use to determine "shareholder value" in thier heads are all skewed. In thier world, the "value" of something goes down exponentially with time. If they can make $1 million dollars today, or $1 billion dollars in five years, they always chose the quick million becuase in thier tiny pea-heads, they think that every day that passes between now and when they get thier cash divides the value of their return by some arbitratily high number.
It's sad sad sad. It's like watching somone dig his own grave, but not knowing it's for him. Broadband is the very LAST thing the Distribution Industry wants, becuase it will allow non "approved" artists an easy and quick way to compete with them. What they DO want is a huge stumblng block in the computer indistry that will slow down the adoption and progress of new technology.
One solution is that the place where he proposes building it has on average 3-4 lighting strikes per year which is the lowest in the world.
The problem with using ONLY this solution is that, seeing as this is nothing but a giant grounding wire, every single of those 3-4 lighting strikes would hit the elevator.
This is about the tenth time we have seen this page on/. (and other sites) and I have just about exhaused all my rhetoric. BUT I still think this needs to be posted. Posted every single day that remains until the vote. The more and more negative letters there are out there, the less confident the legislators will be.
Now on to the good part...
I was reading through the comments, and I was amazed at just how many there were. I cut an dpasted the text into Word and it came out to about 112 pages, courier, 10pt font... all that done in less than a week!
Just for fun, I hit the "Auto Summarize" button to see what it would come up with, and I was pleasantly suprised. On the very lowest setting, the entire 112 page mega post turned into a tiny fascinating Haiku-like poem. I reproduce it for you here:
When you testify, I'm pretty sure all those NDA's are moot... If not, what a great way to comitt a crime: Rob a bank and have your hostages sign NDA's!
If Gateway also uses other competing products, then that endorsement loses its meaning. If you saw a Britney Pepsi commercial followed by a Britney Coke commerical, would either endorsement be effective?
Well, to make your analogy work, Brittany would have to be the one actually doing the selling. I mean, she would have to be behind the counter taking money and handing out product. Frankly, if I get to buy directly from her, I'll get in line for BOTH Pepsi and Coke.
Maybe they should go in for distributed hosting, like say one machine that just houses the IP address and a few thousand mirrors that the requests can be directed to as they come in. Not only is it a project that is just ASKING to be performed by distributed.net, but if they make some catchy point and click (i.e. EASY to use) clients that anyone with a large following can use, we might see the end of such things as Slashdot subscriptions and a resurgence of the "community" feel of the web.
And the good ones then can't really hold a candle to the good ones now (SFC, Shogun, West Front, EU2, etc) except through the fuzzy favorable view of nostalgia.
Just put your theory to the test, and you lose.
The very FIRST Sierra game I ever played, KQIII. Loaded it up, played it. It rocked. It rocked so incredibly much that, frankly, it's hard to believe that the "games" you mentioned are ever let out the door. Cookie cutter soldiers, even in fully rendered 3-D, don't hold a candle to the simply amazing amout on creativity and wit that these old Sierra games have, even to this day.
These games were incredible. I have yet to play a game that really is able to draw me in and fascinate me as much as these old sierra games. Sure the FF games are beautiful and interesting, sure Metal Gear Solid 2 was fantastic, breathtaking even, sure Quake 3 makes my heart pound, The Sims leave me feeling happily frustrated, and Never Winter Nights will no doubt provide me with a lifetime of entertainment... But still, there is something missing...
Only the sierra games of yore were really able to bring my imagination to life. I could play those games for hours, find myself stuck, and spend the next few days puzzing over the answer. And, amazingly, the answers were never the "try random things until it works" variety, nor were they the Riven-style "huge leaps in hyperbolic logic and transdimensional linguistics to recreate the language of a forgotton species to translate the secret message that must them be decoded using the phases of the moon and the atomic weight of Rivenium". They were creative, funny, intriuging, disturbing, silly, and most importantly FUN.
If you are a game designer, do youself a favor... Go find those ancient rotting 5.25" disks from your attic and play those old sierra games, every one of them.
Slashdot Mirror
What the heck do you think X-10 has been doing these past few years with thier "pop-unders"?
...like many of the amatuer harmonica players I was forced to listen to in college, no wonder cats hate it! I think, as a general rule, any intrument that will assault the ears unless played perfectly will be disliked by cats.
American pigeons all across the United States are staging "sit ins" to protest the new influx of cheap Indian labor. Most protests are centered around notable statues and monuments and also high atop government buildings, but there are also reports of millions of birds sitting atop vital telephone wires and strategiecally placed electrical towers, threatening silently the power they hold over our nation's digital infrastructure...
Now I can go "dumpster diving" once they throw out all the birds and pick up some spare parts. I've been looking for a new pigeon-hole router for months (My last one was destroyed when I mistook "CAT5" for "5 cats").
this IS Teoma's new-fangled secret weapon.
Your application will be approved about 6 weeks after the big media scandal when your terrorist hacking breaks into and completely destroys some of our military systems.
IT IS A RIGHT! It's in the constitution!
Yeah, lets all get stupid inventions that waste our time and contribute nothing to the world...
$$$We can all get rich!$$$
MY LIST:
1) Orbiting Solar Collectors/Solar Pumps that supply an virtually infinite amout of free energy to the world for the next 5-7 billion years.
2) Matter Replication/Creation device that either creates matter directly out of energy (to the used in conjuction with the above) or else uses nanotechnology to fabricate things when supplied with component molecules.
3) Safe Flying Personal Transportation that uses either next generation Spinning Disk (tm) technology, or just good old fashioned rotors. (incedentally, I mean safe as in "safe as a car". It doesn't have to be perfect, bust just good enough to let us all travel through the skies with reasonable minimal risk to ourselves and the world)
Fun fun fun, here's my counter ad: Some guy is painting, painting painting with purple paint until he has painted himself into a corner. Then, all he does it step on to the WALL (defying gravity) and finish painting that corner while walking sideways on the wall.
Then flash some slogan like:
"We don't see problems, we see solutions"
I wish you weren't right, but you are. This is exactly the kind of fractured thinking that leads to things like the decimation of the dotcom economy, and I have seen it run rampant in the last few companies I have worked at (yep, they all failed).
The problem is, the equations they use to determine "shareholder value" in thier heads are all skewed. In thier world, the "value" of something goes down exponentially with time. If they can make $1 million dollars today, or $1 billion dollars in five years, they always chose the quick million becuase in thier tiny pea-heads, they think that every day that passes between now and when they get thier cash divides the value of their return by some arbitratily high number.
It's sad sad sad. It's like watching somone dig his own grave, but not knowing it's for him. Broadband is the very LAST thing the Distribution Industry wants, becuase it will allow non "approved" artists an easy and quick way to compete with them. What they DO want is a huge stumblng block in the computer indistry that will slow down the adoption and progress of new technology.
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One solution is that the place where he proposes building it has on average 3-4 lighting strikes per year which is the lowest in the world.
The problem with using ONLY this solution is that, seeing as this is nothing but a giant grounding wire, every single of those 3-4 lighting strikes would hit the elevator.
Are these approved for use in courtrooms?
Now on to the good part...
I was reading through the comments, and I was amazed at just how many there were. I cut an dpasted the text into Word and it came out to about 112 pages, courier, 10pt font... all that done in less than a week!
Just for fun, I hit the "Auto Summarize" button to see what it would come up with, and I was pleasantly suprised. On the very lowest setting, the entire 112 page mega post turned into a tiny fascinating Haiku-like poem. I reproduce it for you here:
When you testify, I'm pretty sure all those NDA's are moot... If not, what a great way to comitt a crime: Rob a bank and have your hostages sign NDA's!
If Gateway also uses other competing products, then that endorsement loses its meaning. If you saw a Britney Pepsi commercial followed by a Britney Coke commerical, would either endorsement be effective?
Well, to make your analogy work, Brittany would have to be the one actually doing the selling. I mean, she would have to be behind the counter taking money and handing out product. Frankly, if I get to buy directly from her, I'll get in line for BOTH Pepsi and Coke.
Maybe they should go in for distributed hosting, like say one machine that just houses the IP address and a few thousand mirrors that the requests can be directed to as they come in. Not only is it a project that is just ASKING to be performed by distributed.net, but if they make some catchy point and click (i.e. EASY to use) clients that anyone with a large following can use, we might see the end of such things as Slashdot subscriptions and a resurgence of the "community" feel of the web.
And the good ones then can't really hold a candle to the good ones now (SFC, Shogun, West Front, EU2, etc) except through the fuzzy favorable view of nostalgia.
Just put your theory to the test, and you lose.
The very FIRST Sierra game I ever played, KQIII. Loaded it up, played it. It rocked. It rocked so incredibly much that, frankly, it's hard to believe that the "games" you mentioned are ever let out the door. Cookie cutter soldiers, even in fully rendered 3-D, don't hold a candle to the simply amazing amout on creativity and wit that these old Sierra games have, even to this day.
These games were incredible. I have yet to play a game that really is able to draw me in and fascinate me as much as these old sierra games. Sure the FF games are beautiful and interesting, sure Metal Gear Solid 2 was fantastic, breathtaking even, sure Quake 3 makes my heart pound, The Sims leave me feeling happily frustrated, and Never Winter Nights will no doubt provide me with a lifetime of entertainment... But still, there is something missing...
Only the sierra games of yore were really able to bring my imagination to life. I could play those games for hours, find myself stuck, and spend the next few days puzzing over the answer. And, amazingly, the answers were never the "try random things until it works" variety, nor were they the Riven-style "huge leaps in hyperbolic logic and transdimensional linguistics to recreate the language of a forgotton species to translate the secret message that must them be decoded using the phases of the moon and the atomic weight of Rivenium". They were creative, funny, intriuging, disturbing, silly, and most importantly FUN.
If you are a game designer, do youself a favor... Go find those ancient rotting 5.25" disks from your attic and play those old sierra games, every one of them.