According to http://google.com/latitude, you can spoof your own location by setting it manually, so I don't see how this can be used for tracking someone who didn't want to be busted.
Remember the date: July 8, 2008. Today is the day virtual worlds go mainstream. The reason is that Google has launched its own 3D virtual world called Lively. It's free. And it changes everything. Especially for telecommuters.
The current iteration of Lively seems to border on the goofy and cartoonish. But eventually, it's likely that Google's virtual world will become mainstream to the point where enterprises actually conduct real business there.
Like instant messaging and social networking, Lively will probably start out as a trendy hangout for teens, only later to become indispensable for professionals first for internal communication, then later to replace some business travel and even trade shows and the like.
Let's see, from this week's BestBuy circular, new releases:
Nim's Island DVD $16.99
Nim's Island Blu-ray $29.99
Which will I buy for the kids?
Also consider I can play a DVD on my main TV, my laptop computer, the DVD player down in the basement, and I can rip most DVDs onto my iPod or iPhone.
Blu-Ray movies just aren't worth the extra picture quality (and I say this owning a new Samsung 46" 1080p LCD HDTV, and a Sony PS3).
It would be better to let anybody comment, then call out the better / authoritative comments. Plus it seems like they will be easily spoofed, leading to some embarrassing moments.
Are you kidding... he joined MySpace and even Tom wouldn't be his friend.
(stolen from Lisa Lampanelli)
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Google Video goes through a process that takes a day or two.
It used to be like that, but no longer. They implemented a web upload form for videos less than 100MB, and the video is available as soon as it's uploaded.
And by "web designers," I'm sure you mean "control-freak relics from print publishing who don't know how the fuck to use the new medium properly," right?
Correct.
Or, to translate:
"the people who are paying to have the web site built"
you can burn through a lot of resources trying to sate the public's ever-changing demand for the newest thing
Good point - plus, if you guess wrong and bet the farm that something will be a hit, you're in trouble, but on the long tail the individual bets are small enough that you can afford a lot of misses.
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vux984: I see your point, and in my original post I admitted that this method is cheesy. But I'll stick by my guns - I like having this cheese available in a co-op game, not for common use, but for those one or two sticky situations where you've tried and died, and just want to get through it and on to the next part of the game.
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split-screen FPS gaming sucks balls
Granted, but Halo co-op was still fun
I'm dying for a Halo co-op experience via Internet - that's when I'll plop down my next-gen dollars.
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Wow, I seem to have touched off some RAGE judging by your POST and the amount of CAPS used.
I guess I'm an idiotic player, because I loved that feature in co-op. I'm playing to have some fun with a friend, and if I accidently bounce a grenade into my face, better to say "I'm dead - run for cover and respawn me" than "I'm dead - you keep playing while I sit here twiddling my thumbs" or "I'm dead - kill yourself so we can replay the last ten minutes of the game".
Your suggestion for lowering the difficulty mid-game is a good one, and for the record my friend and I played through Halo in all the difficulties and generally used the cheesy tactic just to get through the roughest parts of legendary mode.
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Scripting killed it.
Halo has a great co-op mode. When you get to a "scripted" point it just warps the other player up to you.
Also, if one player dies he will respawn only if the second player is not in combat. This leads to a certain amount of cheese, because in a rough part of the game you can send one player out to thin out the enemy ranks, keeping the second player in a safe spot. Then when the first player dies, he respawns back by the second player. Lather, rinse, repeat until you make it through.
For casual gamers this is a great feature!
On a program called "The Soup" on "E!", during a commercial break they insert a ten-second snippet of the show between the commercials. Until I got wise to this trick, I would stop fast-forwarding to catch it (usually just a quick throwaway gag), after which the commercials would continue.
I thought this was a pretty clever way to catch us fast-forward junkies, but I don't really fall for it any more.
How are you going to fix it, when the lobbyists who run the country think it's great as it is?
Just take it up to the next level:
It's easy to bash [lobbyists] as evil, to do so may be to miss an important lesson: [lobbyists] aren't evil, but rational and predictable, akin to the mold that eventually grows on rotten meat. They're useful for understanding how the [U.S. Federal Government] got to where it is and what might be done to fix it.
Multiple releases creates a psychological effect that encourages 'late' adopters to buy. More press. More games. "Holy crap, if people in Europe can buy it, should I have one by now?"
Are you just pulling this out of your ass, or is this an observed effect? (Seeing that this is slashdot I'm going with "pulled out of your ass")
My favorite Carly-ism was shortly before the first round of layoffs. "Let's all pull together as a team," she cried, "we need you to voluntarily take several days of vacation to get the time off the books. This will help us to avoid layoffs."
Then after everyone "voluntarily" burned their vacation time, they rolled out the layoff plans, which had obviously been in preparation for several months.
Sorry, sucker, but you won't be getting any cash for that saved up vacation time!
If you look at the special feature documentaries with the recent Star Wars movies, you'll see that they do a lot of video compositing - they combine elements from real-life video of waterfalls, fog, dust, explosions, etc. to create a scene.
In computer-generated imagery the waterfalls, fog, dust, and explosions would be created from scratch by an artist / animator.
So if the Sky Captain visuals were completely computer generated, that is quite different from the way the Star Wars movies are put together.
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The first step is to wear long pants. Next, make sure you have a sturdy belt that is difficult to remove.
Oh, wait... *book* pirates.
Never mind.
According to http://google.com/latitude, you can spoof your own location by setting it manually, so I don't see how this can be used for tracking someone who didn't want to be busted.
Kudos to you, Mike Elgan, for your keen insight.
Let's see, from this week's BestBuy circular, new releases: Nim's Island DVD $16.99 Nim's Island Blu-ray $29.99 Which will I buy for the kids? Also consider I can play a DVD on my main TV, my laptop computer, the DVD player down in the basement, and I can rip most DVDs onto my iPod or iPhone. Blu-Ray movies just aren't worth the extra picture quality (and I say this owning a new Samsung 46" 1080p LCD HDTV, and a Sony PS3).
It would be better to let anybody comment, then call out the better / authoritative comments. Plus it seems like they will be easily spoofed, leading to some embarrassing moments.
Google changed their algorithm to prevent this type of "googlebombing": http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombi ng-failure.html
THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!
I have a newer player that plays more than one CD at a time.
Currently I'm listening to "Hell Yes" by Beck in my left ear, and "Come in out of the rain" by George Clinton in my right ear.
Are you kidding... he joined MySpace and even Tom wouldn't be his friend.
(stolen from Lisa Lampanelli)
Correct.
Or, to translate:
"the people who are paying to have the web site built"
An unfortunately reality.
vux984: I see your point, and in my original post I admitted that this method is cheesy. But I'll stick by my guns - I like having this cheese available in a co-op game, not for common use, but for those one or two sticky situations where you've tried and died, and just want to get through it and on to the next part of the game.
Granted, but Halo co-op was still fun
I'm dying for a Halo co-op experience via Internet - that's when I'll plop down my next-gen dollars.
Wow, I seem to have touched off some RAGE judging by your POST and the amount of CAPS used.
I guess I'm an idiotic player, because I loved that feature in co-op. I'm playing to have some fun with a friend, and if I accidently bounce a grenade into my face, better to say "I'm dead - run for cover and respawn me" than "I'm dead - you keep playing while I sit here twiddling my thumbs" or "I'm dead - kill yourself so we can replay the last ten minutes of the game".
Your suggestion for lowering the difficulty mid-game is a good one, and for the record my friend and I played through Halo in all the difficulties and generally used the cheesy tactic just to get through the roughest parts of legendary mode.
On a program called "The Soup" on "E!", during a commercial break they insert a ten-second snippet of the show between the commercials. Until I got wise to this trick, I would stop fast-forwarding to catch it (usually just a quick throwaway gag), after which the commercials would continue. I thought this was a pretty clever way to catch us fast-forward junkies, but I don't really fall for it any more.
At least we have JavaScript.
Oh wait...
Yeah, you're right, I wouldn't want to see Eva Mendez in high def. Shudder!
Just take it up to the next level:
It's easy to bash [lobbyists] as evil, to do so may be to miss an important lesson: [lobbyists] aren't evil, but rational and predictable, akin to the mold that eventually grows on rotten meat. They're useful for understanding how the [U.S. Federal Government] got to where it is and what might be done to fix it.Most Slashdot readers have no experience handling a nice rack.
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."
Son of a...
My favorite Carly-ism was shortly before the first round of layoffs. "Let's all pull together as a team," she cried, "we need you to voluntarily take several days of vacation to get the time off the books. This will help us to avoid layoffs."
Then after everyone "voluntarily" burned their vacation time, they rolled out the layoff plans, which had obviously been in preparation for several months.
Sorry, sucker, but you won't be getting any cash for that saved up vacation time!
If you look at the special feature documentaries with the recent Star Wars movies, you'll see that they do a lot of video compositing - they combine elements from real-life video of waterfalls, fog, dust, explosions, etc. to create a scene.
In computer-generated imagery the waterfalls, fog, dust, and explosions would be created from scratch by an artist / animator.
So if the Sky Captain visuals were completely computer generated, that is quite different from the way the Star Wars movies are put together.