1: Try and sound interesting in your Hobbies / Interests section, you'll just come across as a twat. Be honest. And DON'T mention Stanley Kubrick. Everyone does that!
2: Go too far ahead in 'Career Objectives'. Think 2 or 3 years, not 10!
According to evolutionary "thinking" there must have been thousands of generations of beetles improperly mixing these hazardous chemicals in fatal evolutionary experiments, blowing themselves to pieces. Eventually. we are assured, they arrived at the magic formula, but what about the development of the inhibitor?
Never trust any arguement that has to resort to putting thinking in quotes! Especially if the word 'god' is on the same page!
None of the Windows laptops cut it with battery life or displays so I looked at the iBook. I plumped for the 600Mhz DVD Rom drive beast.
What sort of battery life do you get? And how has it changed over the life of the machine? My Dell started out giving me about 4 useful hours - now its down to about 2 hrs 45min if Im lucky!
Get me a sustainable 5 or 6 hours and I'll buy one today!
GIven that the context was NON copyrighted super heroes I don't, personally, give a rats ass wether its copyright or not. We're not talking Captain Dolphin here!
Actually, the articles themselves seldom go so far as the articles ABOUT the articles (i.e. this story).
New Scientist do a pretty good PR job every week to get some story into the press / radio to generate some interest. Usually the story itself will be relatively light, and centred on a new piece of research which raises a possibility - it is the tabloid reporting of these that state 'Mer are all dicks, and there IS life of Venus' or some such (I'll never get that sub-ed job).
Tut tut tut. These are not ideas, these are short works of fiction. I have created a character and introduced him / her. The middle one even had the back story in place.
I did this using TEXT!
Are m 30 words less copyrightable than a 20000 word story? How many words do I need? 100, 500, 2000??
Its pretty easy to create a new public domain super hero - here goes!
Captain Spooner - he's got big spoons instead of hands! His feet are normal though. He can scoop up loads of water, earth, wax, ANTHING and dump it on top of criminals!
The Masked Kitten - Some sexy bint who runs around in a mask. She is NOT catwoman, because she wears a mask and is called 'huni' by her side kick 'Sheba' - who is actually her boss though neither of them know it. They were independent crime fighters when they first met at night while Sheba was kicking in a gang members head. The Masked Kitten liked her style!
FatCowboy - less of a super hero than an anti-hero this dude just floats around farting at people and then taking their chocolate!
Maybe/. should start a repository of public domain shite heros!
I don't think MS are that stupid. This is a serious price tag, but a small %age of the cash already sunk into the Xbox, and a tiny %age of the MS fortune.
Remember that it only takes one game around Christmas to make or break a console. Sonic on the Sega was probably the biggest example of this - how many machines are out there in cupboards with JUST Sonic attached??
Rare have produced some amazing games in the past. If they have a pipeline full of concepts, part worked ideas, and part complete games that haven't made it into public knowledge yet maybe MS see another Sonic or two lurking in there...
Sure, a bunch of talent has moved on, and the last couple of years haven't been exactly rock and roll, but these things come in cycles.
MetaModeration! Thats your solution. Having even a relatively small group of trusted metamoderators to kill 'wrong-raters' rate rights will go some way to stopping this from happenning.
Particularly if you have an automated system to rate down any rater who rates an item as poor when 90% rate it highly.
Most of the 'clueless home users' I know (and I can think of half a dozen right now) only share what they download; they don't add new resource to the network.
I have to say that most that I know don't even share that much - they regularly move stuff out of the share space in order to 'stop those bastards tying up my line!!!'
Your point is good. But the reality is even worse!
Precisely. If some technology of this nature were to be reliably implemented in broadcast material I'd feel a hell of a lot more comfortable with watching saturday morning TV. Over the last couple of weekends I've been subjected to Dani 'Bare' popping out of a low cut number, Holly Valence, some chick on HollyOaks nekkid but for a subtle towel dangle effect, a whole bunch of kittens, and untold numbers of half assed chicks trying to be Kylie.
If I had a 'chickless' button on my TV I might actually make it out for my morning run before Cat Deeley is finished!
Rather than playing a super hero, the game could be based around inhabiting the land of the superheroes - and trying to get yourself into positions where you require their attention.
I'm not into Marvel, having been a DC kiddie, so forgive the character references. But if you kick some ass outside a cinema you get a pounding from Batman, if you don't wash for like, a year, you get a fungus on your toes that Swamp Thing has to come and eradicate. Say 'Im gonna shag that Lois Lane good' enough and eventually Superman will kick your ass.
You build up 'exposure' points until you earn the right to BE a supe for a while!!! Then you can go around listening out for people saying "Where's little jimmy!"
Surely the combined power of the open source community and a decent card with Linux drivers could work up a TiVo beater in a relatively short period.
With unlimited drivespace, a decent file system, a decent show definition system, and some neat tools to pick shows - even without the 'clever shit' this would kick some ass. Build in KaZaA support, some MAME, and define a solid minimum spec and we could all have dedicated inux boxes running our TVs without any annoyance from a corp.
Why spend time hacking the TiVo when the hardware is all there in component form to create a TiVo beater. If people can be arsed contributing to a Browser project, surely a TiVo project would be hyper popular...
To admit that right and wrong are a matter of preference is to destroy any useful definition of right and wrong.
No - that is what legal and illegal are for. Society reaches a concensus on the most important 'wrongs' and makes them into 'illegals'. On the whole, everyone will agree that you shouldn't kill someone, steal their car, or bite them on the ass without asking first.
On the whole you will get vast disagreements about things that are fun. Sex, Drugs, Spitting on the streets. A lot of variations on these are illegal but it is up to the individual to determine wether they are wrong.
I think its absolutely wrong to spit on a tennis court. Its not illegal, but its wrong. I dont do it. Anyone I see doing it I lose respect for. They did something wrong.
What a crock of shit. India is a more sophisticated and advanced society than large parts of North America, with one of the most educated populations in the world. To call it third world is insulting, to refer to it as unstable and undeveloped is offensive.
I suggest you find out a bit about the world.
The US recently shocked the global community when it announced an intention to blow the shit out of a country on the other side of the globe just because they didn't like the leaders style, they would continue to pollute the atmosphere at dangerous rates, and continue to fund the biggest damn military threat to world peace ever to have existed.
I'd go on a hype exercise. I'd buy a big old plot of land (pref. with some crop circle history) in an area with a history of dodgy politics.
I'd whack up the biggest fucking fence youve ever seen, and hire a binch of goons to patrol every hour of the day. The uniforms would have a little logo - probably based on a foot.
Then I'd have a fleet of big limos that come and go at all hours, getting busier when theres a conference on in a nearby city. Helicopters would fly in and out from time to time.
There would be fires set which were JUST visible from outwith the fence. Only ever on days when my star sign said I'd be in a bad mood. I'd seed a couple of rumours of deaths in 'the park' which were covered up.
The tabloids would love it!
5 years later I'd offer Oprah an exclusive tour of the place, having hired those Jim Henson dudes to create a smurf like alien for us. They would only be able to eat little rabbits - and would talk with a slight slur.
- since I first laid hands on a square old 2600 joystick and draw a psychadelic multirainbow Atari logo on my bag.
Atari always seemed a bit more edgy, less businesslike. You kinda thought that Atari was more interested in screwing your older sister than your wallet.
The Jaguar was discounted before it even came out in the UK as far as I can remember - poor bastard.
Is this wrong? Or do those with power get to do whatever they want?
What is the point of power if you can't wield it from time to time. If we don't like the way the education system is being run we vote em out of office and get someone new.
Much better than an unelected quango situation where the public can do nothing!
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1: Try and sound interesting in your Hobbies / Interests section, you'll just come across as a twat. Be honest. And DON'T mention Stanley Kubrick. Everyone does that!
2: Go too far ahead in 'Career Objectives'. Think 2 or 3 years, not 10!
3: Forget to spell check the thing.
According to evolutionary "thinking" there must have been thousands of generations of beetles improperly mixing these hazardous chemicals in fatal evolutionary experiments, blowing themselves to pieces. Eventually. we are assured, they arrived at the magic formula, but what about the development of the inhibitor?
Never trust any arguement that has to resort to putting thinking in quotes! Especially if the word 'god' is on the same page!
"There is an emphasis here on security, but that doesn't mean we can't be visionary," Gruver explains.
None of the Windows laptops cut it with battery life or displays so I looked at the iBook. I plumped for the 600Mhz DVD Rom drive beast.
What sort of battery life do you get? And how has it changed over the life of the machine? My Dell started out giving me about 4 useful hours - now its down to about 2 hrs 45min if Im lucky!
Get me a sustainable 5 or 6 hours and I'll buy one today!
GIven that the context was NON copyrighted super heroes I don't, personally, give a rats ass wether its copyright or not. We're not talking Captain Dolphin here!
Actually, the articles themselves seldom go so far as the articles ABOUT the articles (i.e. this story).
New Scientist do a pretty good PR job every week to get some story into the press / radio to generate some interest. Usually the story itself will be relatively light, and centred on a new piece of research which raises a possibility - it is the tabloid reporting of these that state 'Mer are all dicks, and there IS life of Venus' or some such (I'll never get that sub-ed job).
Tut tut tut. These are not ideas, these are short works of fiction. I have created a character and introduced him / her. The middle one even had the back story in place.
I did this using TEXT!
Are m 30 words less copyrightable than a 20000 word story? How many words do I need? 100, 500, 2000??
Its pretty easy to create a new public domain super hero - here goes!
/. should start a repository of public domain shite heros!
Captain Spooner - he's got big spoons instead of hands! His feet are normal though. He can scoop up loads of water, earth, wax, ANTHING and dump it on top of criminals!
The Masked Kitten - Some sexy bint who runs around in a mask. She is NOT catwoman, because she wears a mask and is called 'huni' by her side kick 'Sheba' - who is actually her boss though neither of them know it. They were independent crime fighters when they first met at night while Sheba was kicking in a gang members head. The Masked Kitten liked her style!
FatCowboy - less of a super hero than an anti-hero this dude just floats around farting at people and then taking their chocolate!
Maybe
I don't think MS are that stupid. This is a serious price tag, but a small %age of the cash already sunk into the Xbox, and a tiny %age of the MS fortune.
Remember that it only takes one game around Christmas to make or break a console. Sonic on the Sega was probably the biggest example of this - how many machines are out there in cupboards with JUST Sonic attached??
Rare have produced some amazing games in the past. If they have a pipeline full of concepts, part worked ideas, and part complete games that haven't made it into public knowledge yet maybe MS see another Sonic or two lurking in there...
Sure, a bunch of talent has moved on, and the last couple of years haven't been exactly rock and roll, but these things come in cycles.
MetaModeration! Thats your solution. Having even a relatively small group of trusted metamoderators to kill 'wrong-raters' rate rights will go some way to stopping this from happenning.
Particularly if you have an automated system to rate down any rater who rates an item as poor when 90% rate it highly.
Most of the 'clueless home users' I know (and I can think of half a dozen right now) only share what they download; they don't add new resource to the network.
I have to say that most that I know don't even share that much - they regularly move stuff out of the share space in order to 'stop those bastards tying up my line!!!'
Your point is good. But the reality is even worse!
Flight-Karma: Poor (mostly affected by the appearance in your name of hyphens, and ending vowels)
Precisely. If some technology of this nature were to be reliably implemented in broadcast material I'd feel a hell of a lot more comfortable with watching saturday morning TV.
Over the last couple of weekends I've been subjected to Dani 'Bare' popping out of a low cut number, Holly Valence, some chick on HollyOaks nekkid but for a subtle towel dangle effect, a whole bunch of kittens, and untold numbers of half assed chicks trying to be Kylie.
If I had a 'chickless' button on my TV I might actually make it out for my morning run before Cat Deeley is finished!
I think you're missing the point with your sarcastic response. They did much more than you say! They made the one-time pad SPARKLEY!!
Imagine living (as an amazonian) in the land of the amazonians?
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO TO ME!!!!!!
Rather than playing a super hero, the game could be based around inhabiting the land of the superheroes - and trying to get yourself into positions where you require their attention.
I'm not into Marvel, having been a DC kiddie, so forgive the character references. But if you kick some ass outside a cinema you get a pounding from Batman, if you don't wash for like, a year, you get a fungus on your toes that Swamp Thing has to come and eradicate. Say 'Im gonna shag that Lois Lane good' enough and eventually Superman will kick your ass.
You build up 'exposure' points until you earn the right to BE a supe for a while!!! Then you can go around listening out for people saying "Where's little jimmy!"
Surely the combined power of the open source community and a decent card with Linux drivers could work up a TiVo beater in a relatively short period.
With unlimited drivespace, a decent file system, a decent show definition system, and some neat tools to pick shows - even without the 'clever shit' this would kick some ass. Build in KaZaA support, some MAME, and define a solid minimum spec and we could all have dedicated inux boxes running our TVs without any annoyance from a corp.
Why spend time hacking the TiVo when the hardware is all there in component form to create a TiVo beater. If people can be arsed contributing to a Browser project, surely a TiVo project would be hyper popular...
and...
To admit that right and wrong are a matter of preference is to destroy any useful definition of right and wrong.
No - that is what legal and illegal are for. Society reaches a concensus on the most important 'wrongs' and makes them into 'illegals'. On the whole, everyone will agree that you shouldn't kill someone, steal their car, or bite them on the ass without asking first.
On the whole you will get vast disagreements about things that are fun. Sex, Drugs, Spitting on the streets. A lot of variations on these are illegal but it is up to the individual to determine wether they are wrong.
I think its absolutely wrong to spit on a tennis court. Its not illegal, but its wrong. I dont do it. Anyone I see doing it I lose respect for. They did something wrong.
There is no god!
I didn't know George Bush was a /.er!!
What a crock of shit. India is a more sophisticated and advanced society than large parts of North America, with one of the most educated populations in the world. To call it third world is insulting, to refer to it as unstable and undeveloped is offensive.
I suggest you find out a bit about the world.
The US recently shocked the global community when it announced an intention to blow the shit out of a country on the other side of the globe just because they didn't like the leaders style, they would continue to pollute the atmosphere at dangerous rates, and continue to fund the biggest damn military threat to world peace ever to have existed.
I'd go on a hype exercise. I'd buy a big old plot of land (pref. with some crop circle history) in an area with a history of dodgy politics.
I'd whack up the biggest fucking fence youve ever seen, and hire a binch of goons to patrol every hour of the day. The uniforms would have a little logo - probably based on a foot.
Then I'd have a fleet of big limos that come and go at all hours, getting busier when theres a conference on in a nearby city. Helicopters would fly in and out from time to time.
There would be fires set which were JUST visible from outwith the fence. Only ever on days when my star sign said I'd be in a bad mood. I'd seed a couple of rumours of deaths in 'the park' which were covered up.
The tabloids would love it!
5 years later I'd offer Oprah an exclusive tour of the place, having hired those Jim Henson dudes to create a smurf like alien for us. They would only be able to eat little rabbits - and would talk with a slight slur.
That would BITCH!
- since I first laid hands on a square old 2600 joystick and draw a psychadelic multirainbow Atari logo on my bag.
Atari always seemed a bit more edgy, less businesslike. You kinda thought that Atari was more interested in screwing your older sister than your wallet.
The Jaguar was discounted before it even came out in the UK as far as I can remember - poor bastard.
That doesn't work when you have 60% of your voting population that is either ignorant or apathetic.
You've spotted a flaw in democracy! Your insights rock!
You forgot the true entry point - shoveling shit from the kitchen floor and picking the cysts out of the chicken mcnuggets!
http://interconnected.org/dirk/?object1=mcdonalds
Is this wrong? Or do those with power get to do whatever they want?
What is the point of power if you can't wield it from time to time. If we don't like the way the education system is being run we vote em out of office and get someone new.
Much better than an unelected quango situation where the public can do nothing!