That is obviously man vs fruit. I believe you have just invented a new basic plot!
So, now that we've eliminated that example, can anyone come up with a story line that isn't made up by a combination of the Sev-err, Eight Basic Plots?
Nah, if it were a Eunuch it'd have to sue itself for having too much in common with Unix.
Boss - "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers." Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX." Boss - "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said
never mind."
Someone should have gotten up and made a rebuttal of "Or maybe yes." and then there'd be a deadlock as the opposing side tries to come up with an actual argument.
The summary is a bit confusing. At first I thought that it was the DS Lite development kits they were talking about, but as TFA makes clear, its the revolution development kits that they're selling for cheap to third-parties.
I don't think I've ever been as excited for a video game system launch, and I was the second person at my local K-Mart to get a Gamecube:-)
Smash Bros is the only fighting game I've played where button mashing gives you absolutely no advantage. I've beaten seasoned players in Street Fighter and Mortal Combat and the like just by mashing my controller, but I've never seen anyone button-mash in Smash Brothers with any sort of success.
And, considering probably about 50% of all the multiplayer gaming over the course of my life has been Smash Brothers, I've probably have played enough to see someone do it if it were effective.
Yeah, they shouldn't be playing the game. But somewhere, somehow, one of them will, and when the story breaks, no one's gonna say "Well, his parents should have done their job." Instead, its gonna be "OMG WTF Rockstar is teh evil and is corrupting our poor precious childrens' fragile minds!" and people like Jack Thompson will go on CNN talking about how the entire problem is caused solely by the game developers and we need to have laws requiring mandatory lobotomies for anyone in the gaming industry.
Really, the whole issue involves several different problems. One is rather similar to one of the arguments against the war on drugs and the drinking age: If you make something available only to the adults or forbit it outright, it'll spark the interest of those for whom it's forbidden. A friend of mine in elementary school was forbidden by his parents from playing Warcraft (because the corpses rotted after they were killed) so instead he became insanely obsessed with it and played it at my house. Other friends whose parents forbade certain games exibited similar behavior. Of course, this is anecdotal experience and might very well not happen outside of my experience, but as I see it, its a problem.
Another part of the problem as I see it stems from marketing. For example, my wife's little brother has an X-Box. He's 10, so there are very few games that he can play on it; most of the good games for the X-Box are aimed at the older gamers. As a result, he's stuck playing the small amount of games that are appropriate for him. The reason he has an X-Box is that it was the console with the marketing that reached his parents, so it was the one that they were most aware of. Over the summer, I let him borrow my Gamecube and brought him a new game almost every week that was both fun and appropriate for him. If his parents had researched game consoles before buying him one, though, he could have had a Gamecube from the start (and with the price difference between the consoles, they could have gotten him three or four more used games).
The problem with a game like that is the inevitable 12-year-old-running-a-brothel phoenomina like what happened in the Sims Online. Except for EA had a defense of "This wasn't supposed to happen!", whereas Rockstar will be pretty fucked and the resulting lawsuits and scandal will come barreling at them with great force.
There are constantly new (or maybe not so new) ideas popping up like iTunes movie store and the like. I've heard ideas being pitched about buying "seasons tickets" to a show and having access to download that show, commercial-free. However, in the end, its all just going to go the way cable did: start out as a new "commercial-free" subscription service and then gradually add ads and the like until its just normal TV again.
Even making "commercial-free" stuff to start out with is hard nowadays, cause like GP said, shows have commercials filmed in now with product placing, so new services won't even be commercial free.
Well, you gotta figure, why not just switch to FOSS in the next year or two when the proprietery upgrade comes knocking? They won't be any more vendor-locked than now, since they'll still be using the same products as they are today.
Its a programming language... As long as the code is open source, then why not use it?
At a future point in time, there could very well be complete open source java implementations. But even if there aren't, the code is still open source.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm... Looks like the select-text replies aren't AJAX, but it turns the reply to this link into an AJAX-enabled thingy.
Now we just have to wait for the VCs to come along and dump millions on the poor guy for using the word AJAX.
This is awesome. The greasemonkey script that adds mirror links keeps bugging out. I hope this will work better.
Also, I think the replies are AJAX. Woo
A lot of things have to change, like our automobile usage, suburban lifestyle, and the excessive packaging of one time use products.
You can say that again!
That is obviously man vs fruit. I believe you have just invented a new basic plot!
So, now that we've eliminated that example, can anyone come up with a story line that isn't made up by a combination of the Sev-err, Eight Basic Plots?
Not neccesarilly. Maybe he's a woman playing a man...
Well, according to this, kids today do know the feeling of playing with a greasy joy stick.
it'll be a eunuch
Nah, if it were a Eunuch it'd have to sue itself for having too much in common with Unix.
Boss - "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers."
Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX."
Boss - "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said
never mind."
Yeah, that helped the general confusion.
Someone should have gotten up and made a rebuttal of "Or maybe yes." and then there'd be a deadlock as the opposing side tries to come up with an actual argument.
The summary is a bit confusing. At first I thought that it was the DS Lite development kits they were talking about, but as TFA makes clear, its the revolution development kits that they're selling for cheap to third-parties.
:-)
I don't think I've ever been as excited for a video game system launch, and I was the second person at my local K-Mart to get a Gamecube
The shareholders should get together with the Sex Workers Outreach Program and get some relaxation time in!
Smash Bros is the only fighting game I've played where button mashing gives you absolutely no advantage. I've beaten seasoned players in Street Fighter and Mortal Combat and the like just by mashing my controller, but I've never seen anyone button-mash in Smash Brothers with any sort of success.
And, considering probably about 50% of all the multiplayer gaming over the course of my life has been Smash Brothers, I've probably have played enough to see someone do it if it were effective.
Yeah, they shouldn't be playing the game. But somewhere, somehow, one of them will, and when the story breaks, no one's gonna say "Well, his parents should have done their job." Instead, its gonna be "OMG WTF Rockstar is teh evil and is corrupting our poor precious childrens' fragile minds!" and people like Jack Thompson will go on CNN talking about how the entire problem is caused solely by the game developers and we need to have laws requiring mandatory lobotomies for anyone in the gaming industry.
Really, the whole issue involves several different problems. One is rather similar to one of the arguments against the war on drugs and the drinking age: If you make something available only to the adults or forbit it outright, it'll spark the interest of those for whom it's forbidden. A friend of mine in elementary school was forbidden by his parents from playing Warcraft (because the corpses rotted after they were killed) so instead he became insanely obsessed with it and played it at my house. Other friends whose parents forbade certain games exibited similar behavior. Of course, this is anecdotal experience and might very well not happen outside of my experience, but as I see it, its a problem.
Another part of the problem as I see it stems from marketing. For example, my wife's little brother has an X-Box. He's 10, so there are very few games that he can play on it; most of the good games for the X-Box are aimed at the older gamers. As a result, he's stuck playing the small amount of games that are appropriate for him. The reason he has an X-Box is that it was the console with the marketing that reached his parents, so it was the one that they were most aware of. Over the summer, I let him borrow my Gamecube and brought him a new game almost every week that was both fun and appropriate for him. If his parents had researched game consoles before buying him one, though, he could have had a Gamecube from the start (and with the price difference between the consoles, they could have gotten him three or four more used games).
The problem with a game like that is the inevitable 12-year-old-running-a-brothel phoenomina like what happened in the Sims Online. Except for EA had a defense of "This wasn't supposed to happen!", whereas Rockstar will be pretty fucked and the resulting lawsuits and scandal will come barreling at them with great force.
Not that they're not used to that.
Decisions in programming can be Ethical, Moral, or Legal. Choose any two.
hacking away at wine to get this worm emulated
Wine Is Not an Emulator!!!
There are constantly new (or maybe not so new) ideas popping up like iTunes movie store and the like. I've heard ideas being pitched about buying "seasons tickets" to a show and having access to download that show, commercial-free. However, in the end, its all just going to go the way cable did: start out as a new "commercial-free" subscription service and then gradually add ads and the like until its just normal TV again.
Even making "commercial-free" stuff to start out with is hard nowadays, cause like GP said, shows have commercials filmed in now with product placing, so new services won't even be commercial free.
Double penetration takes a whole new meaning....
But without the poop, where will they get the materials for their page background???
Of course not! With global warming and all, the last thing we need is to boil the oceans with the chips' heat output!
Well, you gotta figure, why not just switch to FOSS in the next year or two when the proprietery upgrade comes knocking? They won't be any more vendor-locked than now, since they'll still be using the same products as they are today.
Its a programming language... As long as the code is open source, then why not use it?
At a future point in time, there could very well be complete open source java implementations. But even if there aren't, the code is still open source.
Defcon
Q: Why did the robot cross the golf stream?
A: To get to the continental shelf on the other side!
Its easy to make money off of Open Source! Slashdot just posted a story on it!