Zombies have always been a prop. No different then a flashlight, car, or small fire burning in a trash can. Rarely in a zombie film are the zombies actually the story. Fido was one of the few that comes to mind. Zombies are a prop to remove civilization as we know it to explore a state of lawlessness, martial law, etc. Any pandemic really in a film is a prop or "object to further a plot" (a.k.a muguff, grif, etc.)
Zombies are, in reality rather impractical by any conventional account. Take a piece of raw steak and toss it in your yard and count the number of hours it survives. Zombies = moving dead meat. Maggots, decay, parasites, explosion by putrification, simple damaging obsticals, etc. However they provide a look at "human as a natural predator". Most, but not all, zombie films do not have zombies using tools (although it is become a trend with the advent of the fast zombie) so we get to see humans as animalistic predators. Sadly we are poorly equipped and most zombies would be bear, wolf, mountian lion food rather quickly. Even if they are not food they still would run afoul territory etc.
A class in zombies would be interesting to see how they are used in context to the actual story. Again rarely are the zombies the plot thus there would be merit in literature to compare their use in context of story telling in general.
While the fast zombie makes for a good action\gorefest the classic slow zombie affords greater flexability in what stories you can tell. A slow zombie can open up stories about isolation and loneliness (perhaps even pet-like bonding with the rare zombie) where immediate threat isn't the issue. Dwinding supplies, emmenint unescapable death, etc all become options. A fast zombie always can occupy the moment driving constant conflict in the main character. However a slow maglignant type zombie can foster more internal conflict within the characters. Sorry for the spelling but in a hurry dodging tanks atm...
The law of gravity is physical in the sense of a force acting upon matter and energy. Part of the big bang theories out there in fact postulates that the strong, weak nuclear forces, gravity, electromagnetic, etc were all bound together maintaining the inital singularity (if that term is even accurate) then one or more of them broke off that unified force and subsequently set the big-bang off. If that was the case then we have a whole new layer of physics to contend with, the fact that forces themselves have the potential to break down or decay. In simple terms: The very laws of physics may change over time. (Heavy isn't it?) So gravity itself (as a force) could at some point break down into some additional, more basic forces, convert to a particle based force, who the hell knows! For all of human history we've never really looked at the concept that reality itself (And that laws that form it) may be subject to change themselves over time.
But, tangent aside, as a physical "thingiee"... sure but nor more or less physical as "pressure", "heat", or to a lesser extent entropy.
Wait the federal government won't prosecute a bunch of union, jack boot gestapo perverts from the Teacher's Union? No really? In Philly? Why piss off your largest voting block? Makes perfect sense. I don't know about Philly but the first question to ask is "Is this DA elected and did he have the teacher's union endorsement?"
Way to re-invent a 20+ year old interpretation of (off the top of my head for the MTV generation): A: The desk keyboard in Tron B: The LCARS interface from Star Trek.
I must go back to a very old quote: "There is noting more amusing then some young kid discovering something old, thinking it's new...."
Just another piece of meat trying to get by on nothing but looks. Tired of pretty parasites, try being productive rather then a just another HPOA. You are a dime a dozen on the Internet, way to march towards being furniture (see Soylent Green for reference).
American women have become nothing but pop-tart wanna-be divas who's only asset appears to be their ass. They bitch about being treated like objects but these attention whores are the two steps backwards for progress. Can't stand them anymore. Hope it doesn't bleed into Canada.
"I'd rather be pretty for a living rather then contribute something to the world." A nice view doesn't cut it as a contribution. Shit even Barbie the Doll has been a doctor, lawyer, fire fighter, but oddly there isn't a HOPA edition. What the hell is wrong with people. No one wants to work hard and earn anything in life anymore.
Never thought I'd see a generation of women who's goal in life is "I want to be a Trophy Wife when I grow up then get dumped and replaced by my wealthy husband for a younger trophy wife..."
In all that the human condition offers, in all the experiences out there, her aspiration is Playboy? What a wasted life...
An entitled mindset + shallow values + looks obsessed society = What? I don't know but does that look like a recipe for success?
I'm glad I am married, I sure as hell have no interest in fame obsessed, looks obsessed, trash.
Maybe I am an old curmudgeon. But by God I want more 'women' and less 'chicks' please....
Last I checked the citizens of the USA are the rightful owners and based on the information in them, the Pentagon as a whole needs to be fired by their employer AND the rightful owners of those documents: US citizens.
Consider this my official endorsement of the "Anyone but a Republicans and Democrats" candidate.
Brewster had it right, time to vote "None of the Above"
Clinton dropped the ball. Bush kicked the ball out of bounds. Obama then robbed the spectators and sold the ball to the opposing team.
Of course he is now they have exploited it for over a decade. You have to make sure you are shutting out any up-and-coming companies from leveraging it. Now that Wipro and other contracting shops makes outsource as easy as a phone call and some basic contract negotiations they have to lock out startup from getting access to cheap labor. ONLY US MEGACORPS ARE ALLOWED!! F*#$&%( UPPITY PEASANTS!!!
You'll notice the same two faced bullshit when it came to the Internet.
A: Internet is novel. B: Oh shit there is money to be made, get on it C: Now that we are on it we need to lock out competition from getting on it D: Buy up bandwidth... E: Shit they network keeps growing.... F: Quick get those political whore we own to pass some laws so we can lockout the competition on the Internet
In short: We don't mind regulations so long as we are ones controlling those regulations to our benefit.
More BS from an elite that thinks nothing more then 'cattle' when looking at the common human.
Seriously is kdawson getting kickbacks for posting this crap. Since the "ignore kdawson" filter has been broken I find the need to keep score on bullshit he keeps posting and he's in the red for my bullshit-o-dometer.
It's like some smarmy marketing prick sends a submission to kdawson and says "there's 200 bucks in it for ya if you post it."
I mean seriously Taco, you need to look into this shit...
So is the movie going to suddenly change perspective and go fro 3rd person to first person "Through Dildo's Eyes" ala The Blair Witch Project?
Let's not forget that the Hobbit was the crappies book he wrote. He should have smoked less pot at the time and at least kept the point of view consistent....
The front end of an MMO is relativly canned. DAOC\Warhammer uses Gamebryo (same front end framework that Civ4 uses.)
The real detail is in the backend which are largely proprietary.
The basics of an MMO, front end or back end are rather simplistic. The real dirty work is in the optimizations of data storage and hard core mathmatics in optimizing game logic for execution efficency.
Case point: (In full disclousure I have been working on a MMO from a design standpoint for about 3 years)
One of the algorithms I have been working on\researching is a random city seeding algorithm (I am interested in procedural MMO world development) that takes either a pregenerated world map or proceedurally generated world map and scores the "desirability" of terrain. Using that heatmap village markers are deployed then a series of passes are made that merge nearby villages into town, towns into cities, and cities into capitals leaving behind unmerged locals (somewhat like evaporation).
I grabbed ArcEmu (a wow emulator) as well as EQ and a few other emulators and stitched a basic randomly generated map in there to test out the algorithm.
Now based on how the two engines worked my map either took up 6mb of ram or 12 mb of ram.
The algorithm itself was brute force. A math geek friend of mine rewrote it from a mathmatical point of view and reduced the map generation time from about 4 hours to 2 1/4th hours. Not bad.
With a full commerical release it allows people to view the strengths and weakness of a particular implementation and see what optimzations can be made.
CCP right now with Eve Online has one of the most exotic database architectures I've seen to date, I can only imagine the code behind it. Sharding is easy, 1 concurrent world... mind boggling the data reduction, data isolation techniques needed.
Seeing their code in not only a technical education on their architecture but you can see the results of a commerical development process had on the code base versus say an emulator like ArcEmu or any open source driven backend.
Perhaps this may give those aussies a run for the money now...
Tetris, Simple yet Difficult with difficulty scaling over time (levels get faster but game play doesn't change)
Rubix Cube, Simple yet Difficult, difficultly scales with random configurations but plataues (as some point further randomization doesn't increase difficultly).
World of Warcraft Complex but Easy (Difficultly is actually the interaction of players, not the actual game mechanics, e.g. Raiding is an excercise in managing people, the actual mechanics doesn't really get any more complex then a 5 man instance. If people know what to do raids are painless, when people are disorganized, they get harder.)
Eve Online Complex and Hard. It seems easy on the surface but any player that has put in more then 3 months into the game will tell you the suprising complexity and difficulty once you get out into low-sec and null-sec.
I think we all need to dust off our grammar and vocab and really start realizing that difficult, hard, simple, easy, complex, challenging all have different meanings. My day job is difficult but not hard. Super Mario Bros. is a simple game but can get pretty damn hard at times./EndRambling
DO NOT WANT. I don't need any more proprietary crap rolled into a browser. Lean, mean, and a solid plug in architecture. Great now how the fuck am I supposed to block all those fucking retarded flash ads with the damn flash engine embedded... grr.... on the other hand:
I for one welcome out cowboyNeal worshipping Dancing Baby overlords but question their ability to run Earth better then a borg augmented Bill Gates. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong besides Steve Ballmer throwing a chair and breaking the series of tubes we call the Internet. The only thing worse then a suddenOutbreakOfCommonSense coupled with the release of Duke Nukem Forver is the return of Charlie the Unicorn during a Chocolate Rain. In Soviet Russia Snakes on a plane get You but under the new rulership we are as screwed as the Star Wars Kid getting the hookup with a Wii Fit Girl. If you don't think things can get worse, I am fine with that, OK Go, but all your bases are belong to us then. See if I care. But when Dear Leader forces you to do the Hampster Dance in front of the Saugeen Stripper after the JK Wedding Entrance Dance you will beg to be thrown in with those Snakes on a Plane flying to the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny! I know that CorrelationNoCausation may apply here but I am certain that the new overlords computer will be superior to our current technology, but does it run Linux and can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of their computers! My Epeen is huge thinking about it to the point of a joygasm! Perhaps with their technology we could getyourasstomars in the time it takes to watch the Last Lecture! Imagine the number of Libraries of Congress we could store using their technology! Mod me Troll? How dare you you insensitive clod! Now to distract you while I steal the Netcraft report confirming Gentoo Linux is dying. LOOK OVER THERE! OMG!!! PONIES!!
Based on your statement the first thing that comes to mind is sabotage then. With a recent "Lets start drilling" from the administration it doesn't take a tin foil hat to determine that a catastrophic failure of a rig would halt any planned drilling.
Now the question is: Foreign or Domestic sabotage?
In a world where Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera now on a regular basis beat the tar out of Microsoft... well... who really cares if IE9 won't support anything but this boobytrapped codec?
And yet you seem to have no problem with Safari only supporting this same codec.
Because I don't buy overpriced crap from a hippie.
This is disastrous. I don't even know where to begin...
While there will undoubtedly be some competition by way of cable companies vs. DSL/fiber providers (pushing video/television and what-not), on both sides there will be hefty opposition against bandwidth sinks like like Hulu and Youtube. I can see it now: "Comcast Cable is now offering unlimited bandwidth! Experience our 6mbps* high-speed Internet for a low fee of only $45.00/month! Some restrictions apply! *Certain content may not be available at full speed, such as YouTube, Hulu, and non-Comcast partners. YouTube is available at full-speed for an additional fee of $1.99/month; Hulu is available for $3.49/month; non-Comcast partners are available for a low monthly fee per site. Please see full price list for details. Comcast partners include sports sites such as NHL.com and NFL.com, as well as networks such as Comedy Central and Syfy. Switch to Comcast today to see these sites at full-speed! (Television network sites are available for $1.99/month)"
And really, nothing can stop them from doing that. They can throttle BitTorrent traffic, slow down competitors' sites, or even detect streaming media and throttle it down.
Plus, micropayments via web games such as Farmville and MMOs have proven to be a good source of income. Maybe they'll offer to unthrottle BitTorrent traffic for a "low low price of $1.99/week".
Yeah, net neutrality is a bunch of bull. If you want fast sites, you need to *pay* for fast sites, you communist. Don't expect handouts like "unlimited internet"; hell, even roads have tolls!
You are more correct then you could ever possible know. Comcast has already had meetings where they discussed "Bundling Domains into Service Tiers" just like cable TV packages..EDU's and.GOV would be un-regulated..COMs would be broken up by owner pools (Top 5 content providers, other).ORGs, foreign domains.cn,.ru, etc.
They already have been researching this. In fact here is a quote:
"The AAA websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Hulu, Google, and YouTube are basically the HBO, Cinamax, and Stars of the Internet. We are missing an opportunity for Premium content pricing and tiered service options...."
Dear sir or madam, with your fantasy and suspension of disbelief.
We are an enlightened people that live in reality and demand reality. Spare us this dreaming wishy-washy metaphor crap. Metaphors are for weak minded people that cling to imaginary friends and guns. If you cannot tell a story using reality you have no place in this world. Superheroes do not exist, there are no angels that will save you, most people who get shot, die.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to plaster "Peace in our Time" posters across the downtown area.
MOD Table (TROLL) You have no concept of sarcasm (INSIGHTFUL) If you see the double standard I am pointing out. (REDUNDANT) If you have me as a friend and follow the crap I spit out. (FUNNY) If you get the joke (INTERESTING) You need to get out more (FLAMEBAIT) You are one of the hypocrits I am making fun of (OVERATED) You're pissed I thought of this shtick first
Not that Microsoft cares, but Free Culture just took a big hit. Money quote:
there is something very important, that the vast majority of both consumers and video professionals don't know: ALL modern video cameras and camcorders that shoot in h.264 or mpeg2, come with a license agreement that says that you can only use that camera to shoot video for "personal use and non-commercial" purposes (go on, read your manuals). I was first made aware of such a restriction when someone mentioned that in a forum, about the Canon 7D dSLR. I thought it didn't apply to me, since I had bought the double-the-price, professional (or at least prosumer), Canon 5D Mark II. But looking at its license agreement last night (page 241), I found out that even my $3000 camera comes with such a basic license. So, I downloaded the manual for the Canon 1D Mark IV, which costs $5000, and where Canon consistently used the word "professional" and "video" on the same sentence on their press release for that camera. Nope! Same restriction: you can only use your professional video dSLR camera (professional, according to Canon's press release), for non-professional reasons. And going even further, I found that even their truly professional video camcorder, the $8000 Canon XL-H1A that uses mpeg2, also comes with a similar restriction. You can only use your professional camera for non-commercial purposes. For any other purpose, you must get a license from MPEG-LA and pay them royalties for each copy sold. I personally find this utterly unacceptable.
And no, this is not just a Canon problem (which to me sounds like false advertising). Sony and Panasonic, and heck, even the Flip HD, have the exact same licensing restriction.
In a world where Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera now on a regular basis beat the tar out of Microsoft... well... who really cares if IE9 won't support anything but this boobytrapped codec?
BFD IMHO. More and more run Linux every day. The Linux Distros are getting rather polished. The sleepers stir and soon may wake, the tryanny of the elite may get tossed off here soon since things are going from inconvienent to painful (economy, politics, etc.)
This is like telling people that the Nazi Party is not going to support the Torah as book club canidate...
Or that the Black Panthers are not in fact allowing KKK members to join...
IE9 says no to Theora... Yeah...
In other news The Flintstones meet the Jetsons 2 has finally been cast with Alan Alda playing George Jetson with Harvey Kitel playing Cosmo. The Flintsons haven't been cast yet but odds are looking good for Warren Betty as Fred Flintson with Megan Fox as Wilma...
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Zombies have always been a prop. No different then a flashlight, car, or small fire burning in a trash can. Rarely in a zombie film are the zombies actually the story. Fido was one of the few that comes to mind. Zombies are a prop to remove civilization as we know it to explore a state of lawlessness, martial law, etc. Any pandemic really in a film is a prop or "object to further a plot" (a.k.a muguff, grif, etc.)
Zombies are, in reality rather impractical by any conventional account. Take a piece of raw steak and toss it in your yard and count the number of hours it survives. Zombies = moving dead meat. Maggots, decay, parasites, explosion by putrification, simple damaging obsticals, etc. However they provide a look at "human as a natural predator". Most, but not all, zombie films do not have zombies using tools (although it is become a trend with the advent of the fast zombie) so we get to see humans as animalistic predators. Sadly we are poorly equipped and most zombies would be bear, wolf, mountian lion food rather quickly. Even if they are not food they still would run afoul territory etc.
A class in zombies would be interesting to see how they are used in context to the actual story. Again rarely are the zombies the plot thus there would be merit in literature to compare their use in context of story telling in general.
While the fast zombie makes for a good action\gorefest the classic slow zombie affords greater flexability in what stories you can tell. A slow zombie can open up stories about isolation and loneliness (perhaps even pet-like bonding with the rare zombie) where immediate threat isn't the issue. Dwinding supplies, emmenint unescapable death, etc all become options. A fast zombie always can occupy the moment driving constant conflict in the main character. However a slow maglignant type zombie can foster more internal conflict within the characters. Sorry for the spelling but in a hurry dodging tanks atm...
The law of gravity is physical in the sense of a force acting upon matter and energy. Part of the big bang theories out there in fact postulates that the strong, weak nuclear forces, gravity, electromagnetic, etc were all bound together maintaining the inital singularity (if that term is even accurate) then one or more of them broke off that unified force and subsequently set the big-bang off. If that was the case then we have a whole new layer of physics to contend with, the fact that forces themselves have the potential to break down or decay. In simple terms: The very laws of physics may change over time. (Heavy isn't it?) So gravity itself (as a force) could at some point break down into some additional, more basic forces, convert to a particle based force, who the hell knows! For all of human history we've never really looked at the concept that reality itself (And that laws that form it) may be subject to change themselves over time.
But, tangent aside, as a physical "thingiee"... sure but nor more or less physical as "pressure", "heat", or to a lesser extent entropy.
Wait the federal government won't prosecute a bunch of union, jack boot gestapo perverts from the Teacher's Union? No really? In Philly? Why piss off your largest voting block? Makes perfect sense. I don't know about Philly but the first question to ask is "Is this DA elected and did he have the teacher's union endorsement?"
Pick a pair of X'th letters.
Each site use the two Xth letters.
For instance if you use a password like "b@man1"
and you use the 3rd and 5th letter as your Xth letters
You password on amazon would be:
ab@man1o
Using the Xth letters to prefix and postfix your password. Other variations include doubling up on the front or back
aob@man1 or b@man1ao for example.
All the while your google password would be
olb@man1 or b@man1ol respectively.
Another variation uses the first vowel to pick what Xth letters you use adding more variety but easy enough to remember the method.
Way to re-invent a 20+ year old interpretation of (off the top of my head for the MTV generation):
A: The desk keyboard in Tron
B: The LCARS interface from Star Trek.
I must go back to a very old quote:
"There is noting more amusing then some young kid discovering something old, thinking it's new...."
Just another piece of meat trying to get by on nothing but looks. Tired of pretty parasites, try being productive rather then a just another HPOA. You are a dime a dozen on the Internet, way to march towards being furniture (see Soylent Green for reference).
American women have become nothing but pop-tart wanna-be divas who's only asset appears to be their ass. They bitch about being treated like objects but these attention whores are the two steps backwards for progress. Can't stand them anymore. Hope it doesn't bleed into Canada.
"I'd rather be pretty for a living rather then contribute something to the world." A nice view doesn't cut it as a contribution. Shit even Barbie the Doll has been a doctor, lawyer, fire fighter, but oddly there isn't a HOPA edition. What the hell is wrong with people. No one wants to work hard and earn anything in life anymore.
Never thought I'd see a generation of women who's goal in life is "I want to be a Trophy Wife when I grow up then get dumped and replaced by my wealthy husband for a younger trophy wife..."
In all that the human condition offers, in all the experiences out there, her aspiration is Playboy? What a wasted life...
An entitled mindset + shallow values + looks obsessed society = What? I don't know but does that look like a recipe for success?
I'm glad I am married, I sure as hell have no interest in fame obsessed, looks obsessed, trash.
Maybe I am an old curmudgeon. But by God I want more 'women' and less 'chicks' please....
Last I checked the citizens of the USA are the rightful owners and based on the information in them, the Pentagon as a whole needs to be fired by their employer AND the rightful owners of those documents: US citizens.
Consider this my official endorsement of the "Anyone but a Republicans and Democrats" candidate.
Brewster had it right, time to vote "None of the Above"
Clinton dropped the ball.
Bush kicked the ball out of bounds.
Obama then robbed the spectators and sold the ball to the opposing team.
Of course he is now they have exploited it for over a decade. You have to make sure you are shutting out any up-and-coming companies from leveraging it. Now that Wipro and other contracting shops makes outsource as easy as a phone call and some basic contract negotiations they have to lock out startup from getting access to cheap labor. ONLY US MEGACORPS ARE ALLOWED!! F*#$&%( UPPITY PEASANTS!!!
You'll notice the same two faced bullshit when it came to the Internet.
A: Internet is novel.
B: Oh shit there is money to be made, get on it
C: Now that we are on it we need to lock out competition from getting on it
D: Buy up bandwidth...
E: Shit they network keeps growing....
F: Quick get those political whore we own to pass some laws so we can lockout the competition on the Internet
In short: We don't mind regulations so long as we are ones controlling those regulations to our benefit.
More BS from an elite that thinks nothing more then 'cattle' when looking at the common human.
Technically sci-fi when they mention inertial dampeners are talking about intertial nullifiers.
Seriously is kdawson getting kickbacks for posting this crap. Since the "ignore kdawson" filter has been broken I find the need to keep score on bullshit he keeps posting and he's in the red for my bullshit-o-dometer.
It's like some smarmy marketing prick sends a submission to kdawson and says "there's 200 bucks in it for ya if you post it."
I mean seriously Taco, you need to look into this shit...
So is the movie going to suddenly change perspective and go fro 3rd person to first person "Through Dildo's Eyes" ala The Blair Witch Project?
Let's not forget that the Hobbit was the crappies book he wrote. He should have smoked less pot at the time and at least kept the point of view consistent....
I thought it was a great prequal to Fantasy Island with Hurley become the N+3'rd Mr. Roark.
Always a #1 and #2. Roark and Tattoo, Roark and the chick who's name no one remembers.
Hurley discards Jacob's methods and uses the Island to help people go through the purgatory catharsis without having to die.
Just needed him in a white suit....
These perverts need to go to prison.
The front end of an MMO is relativly canned. DAOC\Warhammer uses Gamebryo (same front end framework that Civ4 uses.)
The real detail is in the backend which are largely proprietary.
The basics of an MMO, front end or back end are rather simplistic. The real dirty work is in the optimizations of data storage and hard core mathmatics in optimizing game logic for execution efficency.
Case point:
(In full disclousure I have been working on a MMO from a design standpoint for about 3 years)
One of the algorithms I have been working on\researching is a random city seeding algorithm (I am interested in procedural MMO world development) that takes either a pregenerated world map or proceedurally generated world map and scores the "desirability" of terrain. Using that heatmap village markers are deployed then a series of passes are made that merge nearby villages into town, towns into cities, and cities into capitals leaving behind unmerged locals (somewhat like evaporation).
I grabbed ArcEmu (a wow emulator) as well as EQ and a few other emulators and stitched a basic randomly generated map in there to test out the algorithm.
Now based on how the two engines worked my map either took up 6mb of ram or 12 mb of ram.
The algorithm itself was brute force. A math geek friend of mine rewrote it from a mathmatical point of view and reduced the map generation time from about 4 hours to 2 1/4th hours. Not bad.
With a full commerical release it allows people to view the strengths and weakness of a particular implementation and see what optimzations can be made.
CCP right now with Eve Online has one of the most exotic database architectures I've seen to date, I can only imagine the code behind it. Sharding is easy, 1 concurrent world... mind boggling the data reduction, data isolation techniques needed.
Seeing their code in not only a technical education on their architecture but you can see the results of a commerical development process had on the code base versus say an emulator like ArcEmu or any open source driven backend.
Perhaps this may give those aussies a run for the money now...
Simple != Easy
Complex != Difficult
Tetris, Simple yet Difficult with difficulty scaling over time (levels get faster but game play doesn't change)
Rubix Cube, Simple yet Difficult, difficultly scales with random configurations but plataues (as some point further randomization doesn't increase difficultly).
World of Warcraft Complex but Easy (Difficultly is actually the interaction of players, not the actual game mechanics, e.g. Raiding is an excercise in managing people, the actual mechanics doesn't really get any more complex then a 5 man instance. If people know what to do raids are painless, when people are disorganized, they get harder.)
Eve Online Complex and Hard. It seems easy on the surface but any player that has put in more then 3 months into the game will tell you the suprising complexity and difficulty once you get out into low-sec and null-sec.
I think we all need to dust off our grammar and vocab and really start realizing that difficult, hard, simple, easy, complex, challenging all have different meanings. My day job is difficult but not hard. Super Mario Bros. is a simple game but can get pretty damn hard at times. /EndRambling
DO NOT WANT. I don't need any more proprietary crap rolled into a browser. Lean, mean, and a solid plug in architecture. Great now how the fuck am I supposed to block all those fucking retarded flash ads with the damn flash engine embedded... grr.... on the other hand:
I for one welcome out cowboyNeal worshipping Dancing Baby overlords but question their ability to run Earth better then a borg augmented Bill Gates. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong besides Steve Ballmer throwing a chair and breaking the series of tubes we call the Internet. The only thing worse then a suddenOutbreakOfCommonSense coupled with the release of Duke Nukem Forver is the return of Charlie the Unicorn during a Chocolate Rain. In Soviet Russia Snakes on a plane get You but under the new rulership we are as screwed as the Star Wars Kid getting the hookup with a Wii Fit Girl. If you don't think things can get worse, I am fine with that, OK Go, but all your bases are belong to us then. See if I care. But when Dear Leader forces you to do the Hampster Dance in front of the Saugeen Stripper after the JK Wedding Entrance Dance you will beg to be thrown in with those Snakes on a Plane flying to the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny! I know that CorrelationNoCausation may apply here but I am certain that the new overlords computer will be superior to our current technology, but does it run Linux and can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of their computers! My Epeen is huge thinking about it to the point of a joygasm! Perhaps with their technology we could getyourasstomars in the time it takes to watch the Last Lecture! Imagine the number of Libraries of Congress we could store using their technology! Mod me Troll? How dare you you insensitive clod! Now to distract you while I steal the Netcraft report confirming Gentoo
Linux is dying. LOOK OVER THERE! OMG!!! PONIES!!
(Did I miss anything there?)
Can we mod the article TROLL. So far I see no pr0n. In fact most of us can usually name the performers given a face...
Slashdot: Politicizing Geeks, Hack Jobs that don't Matter...
Based on your statement the first thing that comes to mind is sabotage then. With a recent "Lets start drilling" from the administration it doesn't take a tin foil hat to determine that a catastrophic failure of a rig would halt any planned drilling.
Now the question is: Foreign or Domestic sabotage?
Why not deploy oil-soaking sponge weilding roombas with GPS to constantly mop it up, bring it back to a tanker, wring it out, repeat.
Hell they could use the crappy crude as fuel while they are at it...
Why not drop a napalm barrage acrosss the slick and light it on fire and call it a day.
A permanent "Sea of Fire" sounds like a great place to hide the "Staff of Truth" guarded by the "Dragons of Eternity".
In a world where Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera now on a regular basis beat the tar out of Microsoft... well... who really cares if IE9 won't support anything but this boobytrapped codec?
And yet you seem to have no problem with Safari only supporting this same codec.
Because I don't buy overpriced crap from a hippie.
This is disastrous. I don't even know where to begin...
While there will undoubtedly be some competition by way of cable companies vs. DSL/fiber providers (pushing video/television and what-not), on both sides there will be hefty opposition against bandwidth sinks like like Hulu and Youtube. I can see it now: "Comcast Cable is now offering unlimited bandwidth! Experience our 6mbps* high-speed Internet for a low fee of only $45.00/month! Some restrictions apply! *Certain content may not be available at full speed, such as YouTube, Hulu, and non-Comcast partners. YouTube is available at full-speed for an additional fee of $1.99/month; Hulu is available for $3.49/month; non-Comcast partners are available for a low monthly fee per site. Please see full price list for details. Comcast partners include sports sites such as NHL.com and NFL.com, as well as networks such as Comedy Central and Syfy. Switch to Comcast today to see these sites at full-speed! (Television network sites are available for $1.99/month)"
And really, nothing can stop them from doing that. They can throttle BitTorrent traffic, slow down competitors' sites, or even detect streaming media and throttle it down.
Plus, micropayments via web games such as Farmville and MMOs have proven to be a good source of income. Maybe they'll offer to unthrottle BitTorrent traffic for a "low low price of $1.99/week".
Yeah, net neutrality is a bunch of bull. If you want fast sites, you need to *pay* for fast sites, you communist. Don't expect handouts like "unlimited internet"; hell, even roads have tolls!
You are more correct then you could ever possible know. Comcast has already had meetings where they discussed "Bundling Domains into Service Tiers" just like cable TV packages. .EDU's and .GOV would be un-regulated. .COMs would be broken up by owner pools (Top 5 content providers, other) .ORGs, foreign domains .cn, .ru, etc.
They already have been researching this. In fact here is a quote:
"The AAA websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Hulu, Google, and YouTube are basically the HBO, Cinamax, and Stars of the Internet. We are missing an opportunity for Premium content pricing and tiered service options...."
Devil's Advocate Moment:
Dear sir or madam, with your fantasy and suspension of disbelief.
We are an enlightened people that live in reality and demand reality. Spare us this dreaming wishy-washy metaphor crap. Metaphors are for weak minded people that cling to imaginary friends and guns. If you cannot tell a story using reality you have no place in this world. Superheroes do not exist, there are no angels that will save you, most people who get shot, die.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to plaster "Peace in our Time" posters across the downtown area.
MOD Table
(TROLL) You have no concept of sarcasm
(INSIGHTFUL) If you see the double standard I am pointing out.
(REDUNDANT) If you have me as a friend and follow the crap I spit out.
(FUNNY) If you get the joke
(INTERESTING) You need to get out more
(FLAMEBAIT) You are one of the hypocrits I am making fun of
(OVERATED) You're pissed I thought of this shtick first
Not that Microsoft cares, but Free Culture just took a big hit. Money quote:
Welcome to Digital Sharecropping.
May I ask a simple question:
In a world where Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera now on a regular basis beat the tar out of Microsoft... well... who really cares if IE9 won't support anything but this boobytrapped codec?
BFD IMHO.
More and more run Linux every day.
The Linux Distros are getting rather polished.
The sleepers stir and soon may wake, the tryanny of the elite may get tossed off here soon since things are going from inconvienent to painful (economy, politics, etc.)
This is like telling people that the Nazi Party is not going to support the Torah as book club canidate...
Or that the Black Panthers are not in fact allowing KKK members to join...
IE9 says no to Theora... Yeah...
In other news The Flintstones meet the Jetsons 2 has finally been cast with Alan Alda playing George Jetson with Harvey Kitel playing Cosmo. The Flintsons haven't been cast yet but odds are looking good for Warren Betty as Fred Flintson with Megan Fox as Wilma...