Actually i goto uni of westminster doing media tech (electronic engineering). We have plenty of un-related side courses - french, japaneese, management, maths, maths, maths! AHHH not more maths!:(
It gets even worse - know the real reason he failed to turn up to his air-force medical? they were checking the squad for crabs! He ran away for a year and spent much of that time secretly trying to find a suitable wig.
Its like people who drive how they like - speeding, running lights, parking offences etc because they can easily affort the fine, to them the fine isnt so much a punishment/deterrent but the price of a license to do whatever they want. This is exactly the same with big corporations - infact more so. Accounting is done to take into consideration fines and lawsuits, they wernt kidding in Fight-Club when they said the motor company would only issue a recall of defective cars if the estimated cost of lawsuits was bigger than the cost of the recall! Its all just another figure to stick in the spreadsheet. Some might go a little further and factor in "public relations" ie how bad something would be to their image (in money value ofcourse). For example clubbing baby seals might create a bad image but the lost sales due to that would be less than the profit made (well whatever profit you can make from clubbing baby seals). Just remember this is the capitalist system - supply and demand, money = freedom. Continuing my rant off-topic now:\ the system (when done to the full fundamentalist extreme) works so well its almost beautiful like nature itself, consider:
Drug companies rely on illness, anti-virus companies rely on security flaws, weapons manufacturers rely on war and unrest, oil companies rely on an outdated method of fuel-energy conversion, electric companies rely on people _not_ turning off their lights when they leave the room. Even the president and government have real corporate ties that ensure they have an agenda for or against something for their own benifit. Now stop complaining about the unfairness of the system and get out there and exploit someone.. i hear afew schools might be needing network equipment, now i wonder if we can sell them that 100TB/s router?
because whoever wrote it would have thought "hey i can save an extra guess if i start at 1, because what total idiot would ever set the code to all zeros? i mean that would just be so so stupid!"
Just like people said "I can save a couple of bits in this date field, i mean its not like anyone will be using this system in 30 years, that would just be totally cheap"
"it is the stated position of the United States Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead."
If a virus doesnt actually do any harm but proove a concept its not really a virus. Sure its violating your system but maybe instead of calling it a virus it would be better to use a name that reflects the reason behind it - is a security flaw in windows. Or commonly known as a microsoft cock-up.
Banned is so in. If you get your game, film, book, music, t-shirt or pretty much anything you can banned then everyone will want it. Even if you cant get it banned, just get it disliked by some authority and you've got a sure winner, infact even the people who hate it will want to see what all the fuss is about! Just some recent examples:
The Passion of the Christ (have you seen it?) GTA (Australia, germany, blood-patch?) Michael Moore films (Always winning Oscars) Teenage Sex (Its all about Bush!) CSS t-shirts (ok no-one outside slashdot cares but still) Nick-Berg video (No-one gave a url... 3 days later everyone had it)
and ofcourse (see sig) the Vanunu interview by the BBC which has been smuggled out of Israel and gets aired tomorrow (like totally in your face sharon!)
Smell add-ons are like flying cars - we can do it but no one wants it
Its not ironic, meaningful or in anyway interesting that "To a computer, the fragrance of a rose or a pine cone becomes just another group of zeros and ones"
Computer games dont need smell and hardcore gamers wont give a crap
No one will agree on a standard
People wont buy one just to take a wine tour especially when it cant even do the bloody wine smell!
Yes indeed but what scares me most was the whole series of debate over the nicholous berg video because they said the sound was out of sync... obviously its going to be out of sync!
While we're on the point, why is it that whenever some terrorists are making their damnds, killing someone or generally making videos they are always in bloody windows media format!? what the fuck is their problem!?
IT is really over-rated, they said they would have to redesign cities and crap but really whats the point? are we really too lazy to just get on a bike instead? if your that lazy your probably gonna want a motor-bike or car so you can actually sit down i dont see any reason why IT matters i dont think its going to be adopted much outside wearhouses and afew companies (that dont have stairs).
if it becomes popular then everyone will drop the old PC standard and start selling these closed/DRM'd systems, i dont really care what other people buy but the computer industry relies on mass-production and if PC sales suddenly drop then PC prices and component prices are going to go up and up to the consumer. This looks like the start of closed hardware - not by law, but by the masses who just want to buy an appliance for typing and games. And guess who will have the DRM keys?
Are we noticing an emergence of a new trend of media to look for original plot ideas from wilds the 'net?"
Yeah but the really good stuff just wont get shown by the pussy US networks. Can you imagine Trey Parker and Matt Stones "Princess" cartoon even being looked at by the tv execs? When macromedia saw it they were pretty pissed off (they had made a deal for a new cartoon). do a google for it its brilliant!
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Actually i goto uni of westminster doing media tech (electronic engineering). We have plenty of un-related side courses - french, japaneese, management, maths, maths, maths! AHHH not more maths! :(
A christian porn star? He would have worked with Schwarzenegger too eh?
Actually come to think of it its a really good genetic trait to have..
On the other hand, hes top of the class in his law module!
It gets even worse - know the real reason he failed to turn up to his air-force medical? they were checking the squad for crabs! He ran away for a year and spent much of that time secretly trying to find a suitable wig.
Actually his family has a rare genetic trait - the lack of pubic hair. Out of shame the family name was changed to Bush over a century ago.
President Merkin Muffly - (as a joke), then 40 years later:
President George W Bush - coincidence?
Mein Fuehrer! sorry.. Mr President.
(Seems to apply to bush too - he was comparing iraq to ww2 the other day)
You could always try a debian t-shirt?
Its like people who drive how they like - speeding, running lights, parking offences etc because they can easily affort the fine, to them the fine isnt so much a punishment/deterrent but the price of a license to do whatever they want. This is exactly the same with big corporations - infact more so. Accounting is done to take into consideration fines and lawsuits, they wernt kidding in Fight-Club when they said the motor company would only issue a recall of defective cars if the estimated cost of lawsuits was bigger than the cost of the recall! Its all just another figure to stick in the spreadsheet. Some might go a little further and factor in "public relations" ie how bad something would be to their image (in money value ofcourse). For example clubbing baby seals might create a bad image but the lost sales due to that would be less than the profit made (well whatever profit you can make from clubbing baby seals). Just remember this is the capitalist system - supply and demand, money = freedom. Continuing my rant off-topic now :\ the system (when done to the full fundamentalist extreme) works so well its almost beautiful like nature itself, consider:
Drug companies rely on illness, anti-virus companies rely on security flaws, weapons manufacturers rely on war and unrest, oil companies rely on an outdated method of fuel-energy conversion, electric companies rely on people _not_ turning off their lights when they leave the room. Even the president and government have real corporate ties that ensure they have an agenda for or against something for their own benifit. Now stop complaining about the unfairness of the system and get out there and exploit someone.. i hear afew schools might be needing network equipment, now i wonder if we can sell them that 100TB/s router?
because whoever wrote it would have thought "hey i can save an extra guess if i start at 1, because what total idiot would ever set the code to all zeros? i mean that would just be so so stupid!"
Just like people said "I can save a couple of bits in this date field, i mean its not like anyone will be using this system in 30 years, that would just be totally cheap"
Ah but who would actually really guess it was all zeros? even if they had some sort of cracking software it would probably have started at 00000001!
"it is the stated position of the United States Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead."
Throws that one out the window then?
Mein Fuehrer! sorry.. Mr President.
Because PAL is better (and its german not french, SECAM is the french system).
I call prior art!
50 year old prior art infact
If a virus doesnt actually do any harm but proove a concept its not really a virus. Sure its violating your system but maybe instead of calling it a virus it would be better to use a name that reflects the reason behind it - is a security flaw in windows. Or commonly known as a microsoft cock-up.
Banned is so in. If you get your game, film, book, music, t-shirt or pretty much anything you can banned then everyone will want it. Even if you cant get it banned, just get it disliked by some authority and you've got a sure winner, infact even the people who hate it will want to see what all the fuss is about! Just some recent examples:
The Passion of the Christ (have you seen it?)
GTA (Australia, germany, blood-patch?)
Michael Moore films (Always winning Oscars)
Teenage Sex (Its all about Bush!)
CSS t-shirts (ok no-one outside slashdot cares but still)
Nick-Berg video (No-one gave a url... 3 days later everyone had it)
and ofcourse (see sig) the Vanunu interview by the BBC which has been smuggled out of Israel and gets aired tomorrow (like totally in your face sharon!)
Close all maps, ban them all, think of the childeren etc etc.
No it wont be more successful
Smell add-ons are like flying cars - we can do it but no one wants it
Its not ironic, meaningful or in anyway interesting that "To a computer, the fragrance of a rose or a pine cone becomes just another group of zeros and ones"
Computer games dont need smell and hardcore gamers wont give a crap
No one will agree on a standard
People wont buy one just to take a wine tour especially when it cant even do the bloody wine smell!
Yes indeed but what scares me most was the whole series of debate over the nicholous berg video because they said the sound was out of sync... obviously its going to be out of sync!
While we're on the point, why is it that whenever some terrorists are making their damnds, killing someone or generally making videos they are always in bloody windows media format!? what the fuck is their problem!?
IT is really over-rated, they said they would have to redesign cities and crap but really whats the point? are we really too lazy to just get on a bike instead? if your that lazy your probably gonna want a motor-bike or car so you can actually sit down i dont see any reason why IT matters i dont think its going to be adopted much outside wearhouses and afew companies (that dont have stairs).
Yeah and reality tv is total total bullshit.
if it becomes popular then everyone will drop the old PC standard and start selling these closed/DRM'd systems, i dont really care what other people buy but the computer industry relies on mass-production and if PC sales suddenly drop then PC prices and component prices are going to go up and up to the consumer. This looks like the start of closed hardware - not by law, but by the masses who just want to buy an appliance for typing and games. And guess who will have the DRM keys?
Are we noticing an emergence of a new trend of media to look for original plot ideas from wilds the 'net?"
Yeah but the really good stuff just wont get shown by the pussy US networks. Can you imagine Trey Parker and Matt Stones "Princess" cartoon even being looked at by the tv execs? When macromedia saw it they were pretty pissed off (they had made a deal for a new cartoon). do a google for it its brilliant!
Coffee
Mozerella
Tomatoes that actually taste nice
Olive oil
Hot girls
All mafia movies
Can you seriously live without any one of those?
Also (previously) da vinci, vivaldi, ferrari, berreta and that guy who invented that vaperetto steam-cleaning thing with the cheesy advert.