Is going to determine and keep track of which companies are competitors? How the hell is anyone supposed to do that for every single company in existence?
Had one guy back in 2003, Director of Sales & Marketing, got busted for inflating sales figures (which affected his yearly bonus). He got escorted forcibly to the door by two strapping shop floor guys, didn't even get to clear out all the crap in his office. That was a surprise to everyone but the president, who probably would have had him thrown out a window if that was even slightly legal any more.
When you update your resume, is that Orwellian? When a company updates its list of current executives, is that Orwellian? I mean, holy crap, she doesn't work there any more - of course they're going to change the bio pages.
And the fact that they obviously had some advance notice and went ahead and wrote the html doesn't mean squat.
"Orwellian", my ass. "Revisionism", my other ass. Orwellian revisionism would be to say that Carly Fiorina *never* worked for HP, that Robert Wayman has *always* been the interim CEO.
Then what about 24? It's been available online just like Enterprise, only it's doing great in the ratings. Same with Stargate SG-1, and who knows how many others.
I'll tell you why, it's because those other writers don't suck. Unlike Enterprise's mouthbreathers.
There are several ways to interpret it... yours is not the only one. Clue: Linux developers are also users.
Anyway, it was a joke.. lighten up. Not sure what brought on the need for an insult, but you need to find someone else to take out your frustrations on.
See, for instance, what Stalin did with the veterans of the Russian Revolution, or how Fidel Castro got rid of Che. Every revolution has ended up eating its children; i can't see why the Open Source Revolution should be different.
Yeah, now it's free to slaughter 30 million developers and subjugate every user to its iron grasp for fifty years. WTF?
Not necessarily. And even if it does, it still has to sync.
I think he's saying that his roaming profiles stalk the LAN like several bloated, rumbly stalking things. I wouldn't want all that crap going back and forth on my net either. Plus it adds time to login, which makes people complain.
I half-joked we'd still be dialing like this: (making circular motion) if we hadn't...
And just think - it won't be very much longer before the most common reaction you'll get to that joke is "Huh?", by the kids who've never used a rotary dial phone, much less seen or heard of one.
Again, that $750 million was not stuffed into mattresses or piled in a huge Scrooge McDuck vault for him to swim in.
Whether cash in the bank or value of stock, it is being invested and used to create jobs and grow businesses, create new products and services, fund the infrastructure we use every day.
Bill Gates' money benefits an enormously large number of people, just not directly coins-in-the-pocket style. That didn't change when he donated it to this cause.
How big a deal is it to take a fraction of a second to change the song anyway? We do it all the time with the radio, A/C, and speedometer already.
But not everyone can cope with that much attention switching.
It becomes a big deal when someone's also talking on their cellphone or to passengers, reading, grooming, or any of a hundred other seriously dangerous-while-driving activities. I would rather not have them spend that last little fraction of attention on their radio.
They just want you to think they want to make you think it's been retired, so they can retire it but still have people think it hasn't been retired because they're scheming little pudgy fuckers.
And you played right into their scheming little pudgy fucker hands!
How do we know it even existed in the first place? How do we know that there's no audio-based Carnivore? They could have the microphones trained on us RIGHT NOW!!
The solution is obvious - you must barricade yourself in your own house, destroy the phones and televisions, and sit quietly on the couch so the thermal pickups dont register your presence. It's the only way you'll have privacy!
Well, demo recording is one thing, but I've always seen 'machinima' as being a storytelling medium. Scripting events and avatars to tell a story that may or may not have anything to do with the actual game. Not just recording gameplay for playback.
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Is going to determine and keep track of which companies are competitors? How the hell is anyone supposed to do that for every single company in existence?
'Complicated' is relative.
A metaphor for accomplishing a difficult or complex task that the object or system generally wasn't thought of as capable of doing.
Settle down, Beavis.
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Well duh, it was cancelled ages ago!
Yes, we usually do. But not always.
Had one guy back in 2003, Director of Sales & Marketing, got busted for inflating sales figures (which affected his yearly bonus). He got escorted forcibly to the door by two strapping shop floor guys, didn't even get to clear out all the crap in his office. That was a surprise to everyone but the president, who probably would have had him thrown out a window if that was even slightly legal any more.
Oh, the drama!
When you update your resume, is that Orwellian? When a company updates its list of current executives, is that Orwellian? I mean, holy crap, she doesn't work there any more - of course they're going to change the bio pages.
And the fact that they obviously had some advance notice and went ahead and wrote the html doesn't mean squat.
"Orwellian", my ass. "Revisionism", my other ass. Orwellian revisionism would be to say that Carly Fiorina *never* worked for HP, that Robert Wayman has *always* been the interim CEO.
Then what about 24? It's been available online just like Enterprise, only it's doing great in the ratings. Same with Stargate SG-1, and who knows how many others.
I'll tell you why, it's because those other writers don't suck. Unlike Enterprise's mouthbreathers.
Hahaha!
Encore! Encore!
There are several ways to interpret it... yours is not the only one. Clue: Linux developers are also users.
Anyway, it was a joke.. lighten up. Not sure what brought on the need for an insult, but you need to find someone else to take out your frustrations on.
See, for instance, what Stalin did with the veterans of the Russian Revolution, or how Fidel Castro got rid of Che. Every revolution has ended up eating its children; i can't see why the Open Source Revolution should be different.
Yeah, now it's free to slaughter 30 million developers and subjugate every user to its iron grasp for fifty years. WTF?
Not necessarily. And even if it does, it still has to sync.
I think he's saying that his roaming profiles stalk the LAN like several bloated, rumbly stalking things. I wouldn't want all that crap going back and forth on my net either. Plus it adds time to login, which makes people complain.
I half-joked we'd still be dialing like this: (making circular motion) if we hadn't...
And just think - it won't be very much longer before the most common reaction you'll get to that joke is "Huh?", by the kids who've never used a rotary dial phone, much less seen or heard of one.
Again, that $750 million was not stuffed into mattresses or piled in a huge Scrooge McDuck vault for him to swim in.
Whether cash in the bank or value of stock, it is being invested and used to create jobs and grow businesses, create new products and services, fund the infrastructure we use every day.
Bill Gates' money benefits an enormously large number of people, just not directly coins-in-the-pocket style. That didn't change when he donated it to this cause.
Hee!
From the learning-from-history dept??
WTF are we supposed to learn from this, "Don't set the fucking volcanos off"?
If only the US had signed the Krakatoa-Pompeii Treaty, we wouldn't be getting fucked to death by these massive volcanic flows!!
How big a deal is it to take a fraction of a second to change the song anyway? We do it all the time with the radio, A/C, and speedometer already.
But not everyone can cope with that much attention switching.
It becomes a big deal when someone's also talking on their cellphone or to passengers, reading, grooming, or any of a hundred other seriously dangerous-while-driving activities. I would rather not have them spend that last little fraction of attention on their radio.
They just want you to think they want to make you think it's been retired, so they can retire it but still have people think it hasn't been retired because they're scheming little pudgy fuckers.
And you played right into their scheming little pudgy fucker hands!
Muhahahahah!
How do we know it even existed in the first place? How do we know that there's no audio-based Carnivore? They could have the microphones trained on us RIGHT NOW!!
The solution is obvious - you must barricade yourself in your own house, destroy the phones and televisions, and sit quietly on the couch so the thermal pickups dont register your presence. It's the only way you'll have privacy!
It shares the same genus as the assgoblin. And both are distantly related to the sphincterweasel.
Well, demo recording is one thing, but I've always seen 'machinima' as being a storytelling medium. Scripting events and avatars to tell a story that may or may not have anything to do with the actual game. Not just recording gameplay for playback.
Much easier to do it with a Stargate.
new form of independent filmmaking
Depends on your definition of 'new', I guess. "Machinima" has been around about as long as Quake has.
...says the fool who thinks "Escaping the Matrix" is clever, witty, and thought-provoking.