You just don't get it. The problem is not the toys themselves, it's the morons who point threatening-looking objects at police officers. Teach people not to point things at cops and there won't be any problems.
Oh, whoops, I forgot. That involves people taking personal responsibility.
I'm sure there's a witty remark involving Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, and the CPU power necessary to run Rasterman's code comfortably, but I can't think of a good one right now...
Today, an MS programmer was poking through MS headquarters and came across a transparent tank of yellowish liquid which contained a blue-haired girl. She didn't react, except when Mr. Gates was insulted by one of her schoolmates.
In other news, Antarctica was completely annihilated by an explosion today. Early reports are that scientists using Windows 2000 Second Impact Edition irritated an alien life form that they were studying.
I don't know about making Foundation. Didn't Bicentennial Man make dear old Isaac Asimov spin enough?
And about the money, that's the dilemma. The only way a studio is going to spend a lot of money to make a movie is if they expect to make a lot more money back, and most people would rather watch Ah-nold make explosions than some no-name actors quietly recite the intricate conversations of something like the Foundation trilogy. You either get really good but small-screen sci-fi like Lexx and Babylon 5 or you get overhyped crap like Mission to Mars, Red Planet and Starship Troopers.
I can't wait for the days to come when home computers are powerful enough and cheap enough to do the work of a Hollywood crew. Maybe we'll see some good sci-fi on the big screen then, when anyone who knows a fairly decent theatre troop can create a big-screen quality movie. Or maybe I'm just dreaming for an impossibility.
To the folks at Revelation: Please, if you really *must* do this project, don't fuck it up too much, huh? And stick to the original book. ACC hasn't done too great as of late as an author...
Heh. I live in northeast New Brunswick. That's all we speak here. "Flippez le switch", etcetera. Causes lots of heart attacks to linguistic scholars of both languages. It gets even weirder hearing a native Newfoundlander speak Franglais...
(Not the previous poster.) Oh, look, despite being COMPLETELY on-topic, it's an unpopular viewpoint, and there moderated down!
And yeah, I'm deliberately using the +1. If you don't like that, blow me and my karma both. This is a serious problem: some moderators don't understand the purpose of moderation. It's not to encourage concensous, but to encourage discussion.
Don't worry. I metamodded as "unfair" the guy who labelled the original comment as flamebait. I agree completely with your point about political opinions; a pity that a few bigots don't.
So don't vote for everything in the same election. Nice and simple. We have lots of elections for public officials, but it's all handled seperately by the organizations that are being voted on. A provincial government will organize it's provincial election. The feds will organize the federal election. Your school board (assuming you have one) organizes it's own elections. See what I mean?
Hand ballots with simple X marks *do* scale well. Look at it this way: the US system throws everything into the same monolithic system, while the Canadian (And Australian, and European, and pretty much everyone else on the planet's) systems are seperate, simple, and modular. Ever taken a course in software project development?;)
Agreed, on all points. But if the US gov't really wants to create a computerized voting system, why not get NASA's programmers to do it, or at least use the same design methods as they do? I've heard tales of daily audits of Space Shuttle computer code, with every character carefully scrutinized for bugs and security problems. Keep in mind that the article never said anything about the US federal gov't or any state contracting specifically with the 3 companies. It looks like they're doing this on their own to try to sell to the gov't.
And the necessary software and hardware for this kind of thing wouldn't be complicated as compared to something like Linux or *BSD or MacOS or Windows. A small, custom-designed OS on well-documented off-the-shelf hardware would probably do the trick. I'm just a game design student, so I don't know much about writing OS's, but it seems like simpler would be better...
Or like you said, just use pencils and paper. Even simpler.
What's even funnier is blocking IE on Win98+ from making outgoing connections. It went nuts on me the first time I connected after that, but it's just been sulking quietly ever since. Opera forever, baby...
No, I'm someone who was and is too poor to afford full-scale insurance and got hit by a car. THAT was the reality I faced. I guess you could call me a socialist. I call myself a human being who doesn't mind paying higher taxes so other people like me don't die needlessly.
Health care is a right, not a privelege. Or at least it is in countries where the citizens care about each other.
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>>This is all a bunch of conservatist bullshit.
>This is being pushed by *Lieberman* - he's a Democrat, bucko.
They didn't say Republican, they said conservative. One condition does not depend on the other.
It is if you play it right.
You just don't get it. The problem is not the toys themselves, it's the morons who point threatening-looking objects at police officers. Teach people not to point things at cops and there won't be any problems.
Oh, whoops, I forgot. That involves people taking personal responsibility.
Doh. Forgot about that. I should never post late at night without benefit of coffee.
There *were* no money people. He filmed it on a student loan. It was done in black and white because he couldn't afford a colour camera.
With DOA2 as the first game available. :)
Cartel.
Interesting. I did not know that. Of course, I got an 11% in senior year chemistry, so I'm hardly an authority on this sort of thing. (grin)
That's some pretty damn powerful digging machine that can break apart diamonds.
Don't laugh; while the French government isn't stupid enough to try this, the Quebec government is.
Heh. Never really noticed before...
Offtopic? Come on, moderators, grow a sense of humour. And this is perfectly on-topic, too.
I'm sure there's a witty remark involving Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, and the CPU power necessary to run Rasterman's code comfortably, but I can't think of a good one right now...
Sigh... NURV in Antitrust is based on MS. I hate explaining jokes, I hate explaining my lame jokes even more. It just exposes their lameness.
But I'll bet there's only a dozen people reading who understood what the hell I was talking about anyway, so I don't feel *to* stupid.
Today, an MS programmer was poking through MS headquarters and came across a transparent tank of yellowish liquid which contained a blue-haired girl. She didn't react, except when Mr. Gates was insulted by one of her schoolmates.
In other news, Antarctica was completely annihilated by an explosion today. Early reports are that scientists using Windows 2000 Second Impact Edition irritated an alien life form that they were studying.
I don't know about making Foundation. Didn't Bicentennial Man make dear old Isaac Asimov spin enough?
And about the money, that's the dilemma. The only way a studio is going to spend a lot of money to make a movie is if they expect to make a lot more money back, and most people would rather watch Ah-nold make explosions than some no-name actors quietly recite the intricate conversations of something like the Foundation trilogy. You either get really good but small-screen sci-fi like Lexx and Babylon 5 or you get overhyped crap like Mission to Mars, Red Planet and Starship Troopers.
I can't wait for the days to come when home computers are powerful enough and cheap enough to do the work of a Hollywood crew. Maybe we'll see some good sci-fi on the big screen then, when anyone who knows a fairly decent theatre troop can create a big-screen quality movie. Or maybe I'm just dreaming for an impossibility.
To the folks at Revelation: Please, if you really *must* do this project, don't fuck it up too much, huh? And stick to the original book. ACC hasn't done too great as of late as an author...
Heh. I live in northeast New Brunswick. That's all we speak here. "Flippez le switch", etcetera. Causes lots of heart attacks to linguistic scholars of both languages. It gets even weirder hearing a native Newfoundlander speak Franglais...
(Not the previous poster.) Oh, look, despite being COMPLETELY on-topic, it's an unpopular viewpoint, and there moderated down!
And yeah, I'm deliberately using the +1. If you don't like that, blow me and my karma both. This is a serious problem: some moderators don't understand the purpose of moderation. It's not to encourage concensous, but to encourage discussion.
Don't worry. I metamodded as "unfair" the guy who labelled the original comment as flamebait. I agree completely with your point about political opinions; a pity that a few bigots don't.
So don't vote for everything in the same election. Nice and simple. We have lots of elections for public officials, but it's all handled seperately by the organizations that are being voted on. A provincial government will organize it's provincial election. The feds will organize the federal election. Your school board (assuming you have one) organizes it's own elections. See what I mean?
;)
Hand ballots with simple X marks *do* scale well. Look at it this way: the US system throws everything into the same monolithic system, while the Canadian (And Australian, and European, and pretty much everyone else on the planet's) systems are seperate, simple, and modular. Ever taken a course in software project development?
Agreed, on all points. But if the US gov't really wants to create a computerized voting system, why not get NASA's programmers to do it, or at least use the same design methods as they do? I've heard tales of daily audits of Space Shuttle computer code, with every character carefully scrutinized for bugs and security problems. Keep in mind that the article never said anything about the US federal gov't or any state contracting specifically with the 3 companies. It looks like they're doing this on their own to try to sell to the gov't.
And the necessary software and hardware for this kind of thing wouldn't be complicated as compared to something like Linux or *BSD or MacOS or Windows. A small, custom-designed OS on well-documented off-the-shelf hardware would probably do the trick. I'm just a game design student, so I don't know much about writing OS's, but it seems like simpler would be better...
Or like you said, just use pencils and paper. Even simpler.
What's even funnier is blocking IE on Win98+ from making outgoing connections. It went nuts on me the first time I connected after that, but it's just been sulking quietly ever since. Opera forever, baby...
ARMAGEDDON! ARMAGEDDON!
That was just disturbing...
I don't know if I'm ever going to get used to a Mozilla version number without an "M"...
No, I'm someone who was and is too poor to afford full-scale insurance and got hit by a car. THAT was the reality I faced. I guess you could call me a socialist. I call myself a human being who doesn't mind paying higher taxes so other people like me don't die needlessly.
Health care is a right, not a privelege. Or at least it is in countries where the citizens care about each other.