Hey! Wait a minute! That IS the story we're reading. Call a shit Lola and its still a shit!
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The real reason is that Nintendo WANT these games to die - because as long as they are around a %age of gamers will delay buying a 'cube.
I get all my gaming kicks these days from a gameboy, SimCity, and a few codemasters race sims on my laptop. When I get bored of that Nintendo dont want me to be able to download a SNES emulator and ROMS to allow me to play super mario kart on my PC!!! Even if they do get $20 every time I download the player.
They want me locked into the sexy new machine.
This is also why thy dont licence the old games to another company to sell in a new format (that and the characters).
At the moment it costs the state a measurable amount of cash to monitor what I say today. They have to get someone to actually plant a bug, or tap a line, or track me down and follow me.
If you have a 'practically free' method of doing this the state is no longer impeded by availability of funds - and can bug everyone 'just in case'. The auto processing, pattern recognition technology that spots stolen cars / repeat shoplifters, can be used on these feeds to flag up people who say the words 'I'm a baddie' more than twice.
Just by releasing a swarm of flies/ ants they can have a bug in every room in the country. If its okay to use them to stop Bin Laden - why not use them to stop wife beaters, and drug dealers, and tax dodgers, and litterers, and over-eaters. If the costs are low enough then it makes sense.
As soon as you create a machine that allows you to put those two little words on the screen you can do all sorts of things - hey! You could display a whole encyclopedia!!!
As soon as you prove you can do something AT ALL you know its worth figuring out how to do more of it.
Creating a Zero G device is like making love to a beautiful woman. When your young you pull your first woman. Yeah - she might be a dog, but hey! she was willing to sleep with YOU! So you try again with some chick who's a bit nicer looking, or has bigger boobs, or washes a bit more often. Some of you will stay with her - glad not to be alone. But some of you with vision will keep climbing that mountain until you finally get to nail a pretty one! THEN my boy, THEN you'll be floating on air!
That first shag proves it is at least POSSIBLE. Same with the 2%.
( I dont think the observations hold up - but if they HAVE achieved a 2% effect then WOWOWOWOW!!! )
Your people are all dying of Aids, the US / EU drug company that holds the patent charges you US$3000 per person per year for the drugs to give them a sustainably high quality of life.
You can make them yourself for US$80 per person per year. Piracy??
As a raving capitalist I think the copy protection of material which has a genuine direct impact on human quality of life is evil and wrong and should be stopped.
Copy protect Britneys next CD, but when she goes back to school and finds a cure for cancer - that should DEFAULT to the public domain.
While I agree that much of the bandwidth will be pissed down the drain, I have to say this is an excellent development.
Sometimes teaching institutions have to invest in technology before the application arrives - the first computing departments did, and most of the 'firsts' were bought / built because the could - not because they were needed.
Until you have a tool, you struggle to come up with apps. If I had the time, and the skills, and the access to this kind of kit I'd be playing with distributed EVERYTHING. Some decent, killer, must have or I die, app will come out of that eventually.
I have thought for YEARS that breakfast TV should have ads in the lower quarter of the screen, INSTEAD of ad breaks. How annoying is it to rely on the 'clock on the telly' all morning, only to have it disappear every now and then for some damn ads!
Having the ads scrolling / running at the foot of the screen would be cool - not in something like the simpsons, but in most crap it'll be fine!
Many toll booths have a membership option - allowing regular users to faststream through a set of lanes by simply swiping a card or having a barcode on their dash read.
All this does is extend this to ALL traffic.
The only problem as I see it is that I can be being charged for a service without having it made clear to me that I am going to have to pay.
If the hardware cant be special then why bother! You can't polish a turd! And writing a new OS for standard PC hardware can only go so far. The Hardware HAS to shine!
But yes, we have to identify how to differentiate the Amiga from the PC - and I'm pretty sure that to have a mass appeal the Amiga should LOOK better than anything else on the market. Get that right, let it fit into the home, and you're winning from the kick off.
Surely the point of the old amiga was that it was graphically amazing for its time and it was available at supermarkets before you could get PCs in the high street?
I had an ST and an Amiga - I got the ST first, so using the Amiga always felt a little unfaithful! But wow, what a machine.
To have the same impact today I think you'd have to have something that made the iMac look ugly and blew away a hefty desktop PC for $300 - in a box - in the supermarket - next to the gamecube.
This kind of riping is much like in the old days of games on the C64 - when we ran programs to rip the graphics out of them - you could take all the sprites and backgrounds and put them into a draw program!
Why? Because you wanted to! You never did anything with them, I sometimes used them in my own games - but then, only about 10 people ever played my games!
Ripping a DVD is the same. I SERIOUSLY hate having to watch warnings and stuff, EVERY SINGLE TIME I watch a movie! Sheeeesh! Give me a DVD player that ignores all that crap and I'll buy 10!
Its not possible to treat your delusional mindset in a simple/. posting - so I won't try.
All I'll do is suggest you consider your daughter, at 11 years old, having to work a 13 hour day in an overcrowded, poorly lit, badly ventilated factory making shoes. She has to ask to go to the bathroom. She gets 20 minutes for lunch - no other breaks.
Nike MD - There are 20 000 peasant children on the other side of the world - with a single signature you can enslave them until their fingers fall off, then throw them in the sea!
Walmart MD - But I get some running shoes too right?
I'd be interested how quickly peoples REAL ovens reach a decent pizza cooking temp!
My old one hit 220' in about half an hour. My NEW one does the same in about TEN mins - and hits 250'!!!!
I can be eating real pizza from a standing cold start in about 20 minutes!
Re:Author's Site SUCKS!... but
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Bugger! That kills ALL my blind jokes!
Next you'll be telling me that paraplegics CAN climb mountains!
Re:Author's Site SUCKS!... but
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BUT - from the majority of users point of view it does what it needs to do - it conveys information about the book. So it fulfils most logical criteria of a successful website.
You don't need all your DTDs etc for that!
I'll agree that the image alts are a serious limitation for the blind - but hey! they can't read books anyway!
This kind of stuff leaves me cold as a dead goose - so I can't judge the quality of it. But lets assume the quality is:
a: BAD Then it deserves to fail because lifes too short for bad ANYTHING. Just because you have a funky new delivery mechanism doesn't make the product better.
b: AVERAGE See a
c: GOOD Then those people who read it should have shouted about it more - and persuaded more of their network to start paying for it too. As a kid at school (in Scotland) I started buying Batman comics in town. When I told my friends they started buying batman comics. They werent available in the mainstream newsagents at the time - so you had to go into the spooky comic shop with the stinky dudes. About 10 years later the guy that worked there told me that we collectively bought about 100 comics a month from him - from zero to 100 in 2 months in fact. Now that didn't make DC any more money -but it helped him! His little comic shop was selling 100 more comics a month. The point? I dont know. People have to hear of something to know they want it enough to part with the money!
d: EXCELLENT Then he'll make more money doing it on paper and good luck to him!
You could burn every single physical asset of these companies. Kill all the staff. And you would still only have dented the market value of the company - these companies are brand led. (ISBN 0-00-653040-0 for lots of juice).
It's the word 'NIKE' and the tick logo that ALL the value resides in - because people associate THOSE with the Nike values. You don't need the big marketing plan, brand bible etc... for that - all of those can be reworked. Whats of value is the existing brand loyalty and awareness.
A bit further than this. China probably CAN prevent the viewing of news.bbc.co.uk and cnn.com but they'll NEVER keep up to date the block list for NGOs and other more independent and direct news sources.
As long as there are search engines, email, and word of mouth, those who WANT to read the real story will be able to.
This leaves those majority of the population still sucking in the dross they are fed. At the moment in the UK you can't move for people sucking up to the royal family on the TV. The mass population couldn't give two shits about them and want them gone - but the BBC pays for a big concert, a million people go along to see bands for free, and we're told its a royalist revival!
Enough people just go along with this and decide 'hey - yeah - lets do that! royals! I love them!' because they don't form opinions, they consume them.
What better way to attract women than to be playing Doom III on a train within a week of launch and to be kicking ASS!
If your laptop has a nice velvetty 'keyboard nipple' pointer you have a second angle with which to get them going! Chicks really dig those! "ooooh! it feels so soooft!"
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But hey! Who wants to read THIS story?:
"Scramjet tests looked positive in Australia"
Hey! Wait a minute! That IS the story we're reading. Call a shit Lola and its still a shit!
The real reason is that Nintendo WANT these games to die - because as long as they are around a %age of gamers will delay buying a 'cube.
I get all my gaming kicks these days from a gameboy, SimCity, and a few codemasters race sims on my laptop. When I get bored of that Nintendo dont want me to be able to download a SNES emulator and ROMS to allow me to play super mario kart on my PC!!! Even if they do get $20 every time I download the player.
They want me locked into the sexy new machine.
This is also why thy dont licence the old games to another company to sell in a new format (that and the characters).
technology rarely changes them
I would agree with you but for one thing. Money.
At the moment it costs the state a measurable amount of cash to monitor what I say today. They have to get someone to actually plant a bug, or tap a line, or track me down and follow me.
If you have a 'practically free' method of doing this the state is no longer impeded by availability of funds - and can bug everyone 'just in case'. The auto processing, pattern recognition technology that spots stolen cars / repeat shoplifters, can be used on these feeds to flag up people who say the words 'I'm a baddie' more than twice.
Just by releasing a swarm of flies/ ants they can have a bug in every room in the country. If its okay to use them to stop Bin Laden - why not use them to stop wife beaters, and drug dealers, and tax dodgers, and litterers, and over-eaters. If the costs are low enough then it makes sense.
Hello World
As soon as you create a machine that allows you to put those two little words on the screen you can do all sorts of things - hey! You could display a whole encyclopedia!!!
As soon as you prove you can do something AT ALL you know its worth figuring out how to do more of it.
Creating a Zero G device is like making love to a beautiful woman. When your young you pull your first woman. Yeah - she might be a dog, but hey! she was willing to sleep with YOU! So you try again with some chick who's a bit nicer looking, or has bigger boobs, or washes a bit more often. Some of you will stay with her - glad not to be alone. But some of you with vision will keep climbing that mountain until you finally get to nail a pretty one! THEN my boy, THEN you'll be floating on air!
That first shag proves it is at least POSSIBLE. Same with the 2%.
( I dont think the observations hold up - but if they HAVE achieved a 2% effect then WOWOWOWOW!!! )
Your people are all dying of Aids, the US / EU drug company that holds the patent charges you US$3000 per person per year for the drugs to give them a sustainably high quality of life.
You can make them yourself for US$80 per person per year. Piracy??
As a raving capitalist I think the copy protection of material which has a genuine direct impact on human quality of life is evil and wrong and should be stopped.
Copy protect Britneys next CD, but when she goes back to school and finds a cure for cancer - that should DEFAULT to the public domain.
Fuck Me! Who took YOUR funny bone!
While I agree that much of the bandwidth will be pissed down the drain, I have to say this is an excellent development.
Sometimes teaching institutions have to invest in technology before the application arrives - the first computing departments did, and most of the 'firsts' were bought / built because the could - not because they were needed.
Until you have a tool, you struggle to come up with apps. If I had the time, and the skills, and the access to this kind of kit I'd be playing with distributed EVERYTHING. Some decent, killer, must have or I die, app will come out of that eventually.
Jesus! Sorry to have rattled your cage / bridge dude!
Some words are dirty! My mum told me so!
Shouldn't we be able to mod comments down as 'potty mouthed'??
I have thought for YEARS that breakfast TV should have ads in the lower quarter of the screen, INSTEAD of ad breaks. How annoying is it to rely on the 'clock on the telly' all morning, only to have it disappear every now and then for some damn ads!
Having the ads scrolling / running at the foot of the screen would be cool - not in something like the simpsons, but in most crap it'll be fine!
Many toll booths have a membership option - allowing regular users to faststream through a set of lanes by simply swiping a card or having a barcode on their dash read.
All this does is extend this to ALL traffic.
The only problem as I see it is that I can be being charged for a service without having it made clear to me that I am going to have to pay.
As long as we have guys dressed as women I'll be happy! Its not a warped world without 'em!
This time around the hardware can't be special
If the hardware cant be special then why bother! You can't polish a turd! And writing a new OS for standard PC hardware can only go so far. The Hardware HAS to shine!
But yes, we have to identify how to differentiate the Amiga from the PC - and I'm pretty sure that to have a mass appeal the Amiga should LOOK better than anything else on the market. Get that right, let it fit into the home, and you're winning from the kick off.
Surely the point of the old amiga was that it was graphically amazing for its time and it was available at supermarkets before you could get PCs in the high street?
I had an ST and an Amiga - I got the ST first, so using the Amiga always felt a little unfaithful! But wow, what a machine.
To have the same impact today I think you'd have to have something that made the iMac look ugly and blew away a hefty desktop PC for $300 - in a box - in the supermarket - next to the gamecube.
This kind of riping is much like in the old days of games on the C64 - when we ran programs to rip the graphics out of them - you could take all the sprites and backgrounds and put them into a draw program!
Why? Because you wanted to! You never did anything with them, I sometimes used them in my own games - but then, only about 10 people ever played my games!
Ripping a DVD is the same. I SERIOUSLY hate having to watch warnings and stuff, EVERY SINGLE TIME I watch a movie! Sheeeesh! Give me a DVD player that ignores all that crap and I'll buy 10!
Its not possible to treat your delusional mindset in a simple /. posting - so I won't try.
All I'll do is suggest you consider your daughter, at 11 years old, having to work a 13 hour day in an overcrowded, poorly lit, badly ventilated factory making shoes. She has to ask to go to the bathroom. She gets 20 minutes for lunch - no other breaks.
Latte? She wouldn't mind a glass of water!
Nike MD - There are 20 000 peasant children on the other side of the world - with a single signature you can enslave them until their fingers fall off, then throw them in the sea!
Walmart MD - But I get some running shoes too right?
Nike MD - Yeah!
Walmart MD - Pass the pen!
I'd be interested how quickly peoples REAL ovens reach a decent pizza cooking temp!
My old one hit 220' in about half an hour.
My NEW one does the same in about TEN mins - and hits 250'!!!!
I can be eating real pizza from a standing cold start in about 20 minutes!
Bugger! That kills ALL my blind jokes!
Next you'll be telling me that paraplegics CAN climb mountains!
BUT - from the majority of users point of view it does what it needs to do - it conveys information about the book. So it fulfils most logical criteria of a successful website.
You don't need all your DTDs etc for that!
I'll agree that the image alts are a serious limitation for the blind - but hey! they can't read books anyway!
This kind of stuff leaves me cold as a dead goose - so I can't judge the quality of it. But lets assume the quality is:
a: BAD
Then it deserves to fail because lifes too short for bad ANYTHING. Just because you have a funky new delivery mechanism doesn't make the product better.
b: AVERAGE
See a
c: GOOD
Then those people who read it should have shouted about it more - and persuaded more of their network to start paying for it too. As a kid at school (in Scotland) I started buying Batman comics in town. When I told my friends they started buying batman comics. They werent available in the mainstream newsagents at the time - so you had to go into the spooky comic shop with the stinky dudes. About 10 years later the guy that worked there told me that we collectively bought about 100 comics a month from him - from zero to 100 in 2 months in fact. Now that didn't make DC any more money -but it helped him! His little comic shop was selling 100 more comics a month.
The point? I dont know. People have to hear of something to know they want it enough to part with the money!
d: EXCELLENT
Then he'll make more money doing it on paper and good luck to him!
e: BESTTHINGEVEROHMYGODTHEYCANTCANCELTHATTHEBASTARDS
Yeah right!
Yep. This is the answer.
Nike
Coke
McDonalds
You could burn every single physical asset of these companies. Kill all the staff. And you would still only have dented the market value of the company - these companies are brand led. (ISBN 0-00-653040-0 for lots of juice).
It's the word 'NIKE' and the tick logo that ALL the value resides in - because people associate THOSE with the Nike values. You don't need the big marketing plan, brand bible etc... for that - all of those can be reworked. Whats of value is the existing brand loyalty and awareness.
A bit further than this. China probably CAN prevent the viewing of news.bbc.co.uk and cnn.com but they'll NEVER keep up to date the block list for NGOs and other more independent and direct news sources.
As long as there are search engines, email, and word of mouth, those who WANT to read the real story will be able to.
This leaves those majority of the population still sucking in the dross they are fed. At the moment in the UK you can't move for people sucking up to the royal family on the TV. The mass population couldn't give two shits about them and want them gone - but the BBC pays for a big concert, a million people go along to see bands for free, and we're told its a royalist revival!
Enough people just go along with this and decide 'hey - yeah - lets do that! royals! I love them!' because they don't form opinions, they consume them.
This is the key question.
What better way to attract women than to be playing Doom III on a train within a week of launch and to be kicking ASS!
If your laptop has a nice velvetty 'keyboard nipple' pointer you have a second angle with which to get them going! Chicks really dig those! "ooooh! it feels so soooft!"
All aboard the love train!!!
She's pretty much perfect, and she loves me.
And if she reads that she'll kick you so far into space you'll make Rocket Man look like a kid with fireworks!!
Chicks are never 'pretty much' anything - they are ALWAYS perfect (until the dump you then you append the word 'whoore'