I think Adams also quite accurately describes the average constantly-troubled-but-still-smarter-than-the-res t-geek:
Marvin, can you pick up that
piece of paper? Can I pick up that piece of paper! Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to..."
"Yeah, yeah," sympathized Zaphod hardly at all.
"But I'm quite used to being humiliated," droned Marvin, "I can even go and stick my head in a bucket of water if you like. Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water? I've got one ready. Wait a minute."
Now, replace Zaphod with Mr.Marketing or Mr.TheInterNetIsBrokenBoss...
*scene: dm6, you're stacked up with 200armor, got the railgun and is now in hot persuit down the stairs to finish of the prey trying to get away on the lower floor*
*As you get ready to fire you push the mandatory "ph34h da rail!" bind when you see a strange message on your screen...*
CONNECTION INTERRUPTED
Followed seconds later by:
Hi! We notice that your dream is failing because of a bad connection, we'd like to take this opportunity to tell you a bit of the services that we at AOL provide..."
hmm, I wonder what govmt agencies will blame problems and delays on when we get neurolinks, "Oh I'm sorry, your application got lost because a secretary's head crashed yesterday"
Very good point, I say we make all crimes capital punishment ones, you kill-you die, you rob-you die, you jaywalk-you die. Afterall, us law obiding citizens have nothing to worry about right?
11. The new committee's specific terms of reference were as follows:
ii. cyber-space offences, in particular those committed through the use of telecommunication networks, e.g. the Internet, such as illegal money transactions, offering illegal services, violation of copyright, as well as those which violate human dignity and the protection of minors;
Damn! This means no more 40year-old-overweight-balding-guy-in-diapers pr0n doesn't it?
If they really want to do combat simulation, they need to pump in the smell of cordite and napalm; the smell of rotting flesh on week-old corpses;
They have that, saw a story yesterday where they let a reporter smell what rotting body smells like, he didn't like it much...
Isn't it about time for Asus to release a new driver to "aid inexperienced players in single player games"? I mean it's been what? 6 months since they last tried to get those cheating-llama drivers out, about time they tried again methinks.
Linux is great. I dont know why anyone would pay $200 for Windows 2000 Fischer Price edition, when redhat 7.2 is really really awesome, and comes with so much software. I am a power user, granted, and therefore I know quality when I see it. And MS really only has marketing and momentum. As things stand right now, it can barely compete on quality/quantity/price of software.
Why? Because I know windows, when I start the computer up I want to be able to use the applications in it right away. When it's work time I don't really care much what OS is better or how much support/applications/information is avaliable, I know how to use it already. I boot up, start my app, and create the stuff I'm there to create. Biggest reason for not swapping to Linux is that I don't know it that well, I'm not tempted to spend weeks or months trying to figure out an OS when I already know one, no matter how much greater the other one is.
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I think Adams also quite accurately describes the average constantly-troubled-but-still-smarter-than-the-res t-geek:
Marvin, can you pick up that piece of paper? ..."
Can I pick up that piece of paper! Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to
"Yeah, yeah," sympathized Zaphod hardly at all.
"But I'm quite used to being humiliated," droned Marvin, "I can even go and stick my head in a bucket of water if you like. Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water? I've got one ready. Wait a minute."
Now, replace Zaphod with Mr.Marketing or Mr.TheInterNetIsBrokenBoss...
*scene: dm6, you're stacked up with 200armor, got the railgun and is now in hot persuit down the stairs to finish of the prey trying to get away on the lower floor*
*As you get ready to fire you push the mandatory "ph34h da rail!" bind when you see a strange message on your screen...*
CONNECTION INTERRUPTED
Followed seconds later by:
Hi! We notice that your dream is failing because of a bad connection, we'd like to take this opportunity to tell you a bit of the services that we at AOL provide..."
Groovy:
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hmm, I wonder what govmt agencies will blame problems and delays on when we get neurolinks, "Oh I'm sorry, your application got lost because a secretary's head crashed yesterday"
Very good point, I say we make all crimes capital punishment ones, you kill-you die, you rob-you die, you jaywalk-you die. Afterall, us law obiding citizens have nothing to worry about right?
Remember that in the eyes of the US govmt foreign citizens have no rights.
11. The new committee's specific terms of reference were as follows:
ii. cyber-space offences, in particular those committed through the use of telecommunication networks, e.g. the Internet, such as illegal money transactions, offering illegal services, violation of copyright, as well as those which violate human dignity and the protection of minors;
Damn! This means no more 40year-old-overweight-balding-guy-in-diapers pr0n doesn't it?
If they really want to do combat simulation, they need to pump in the smell of cordite and napalm; the smell of rotting flesh on week-old corpses; They have that, saw a story yesterday where they let a reporter smell what rotting body smells like, he didn't like it much...
This thing will never sell until they figure out how to work it into sextoys...
Isn't it about time for Asus to release a new driver to "aid inexperienced players in single player games"? I mean it's been what? 6 months since they last tried to get those cheating-llama drivers out, about time they tried again methinks.
Linux is great. I dont know why anyone would pay $200 for Windows 2000 Fischer Price edition, when redhat 7.2 is really really awesome, and comes with so much software. I am a power user, granted, and therefore I know quality when I see it. And MS really only has marketing and momentum. As things stand right now, it can barely compete on quality/quantity/price of software.
Why? Because I know windows, when I start the computer up I want to be able to use the applications in it right away. When it's work time I don't really care much what OS is better or how much support/applications/information is avaliable, I know how to use it already. I boot up, start my app, and create the stuff I'm there to create. Biggest reason for not swapping to Linux is that I don't know it that well, I'm not tempted to spend weeks or months trying to figure out an OS when I already know one, no matter how much greater the other one is.
But some day...when I have the time...