What about the idea of something like There or the more real-life-like MMORPGs serving as a sort of enhanced chat room? Yes, I know, they're like that already. But I'll never sign up for it because I'm not really interested in meeting new people--I have enough trouble keeping up with the people in my real life.
And that's exactly what would be missing from There (for me)--the people in my real life. I don't use IM to meet new people--I use it to talk to the people I already know (or meet in real life). It would be absolutely fantastic to interact with those people I know in real life in a world like There--I could think of some fun shit to do with friends. Plus like the article indicates, why talk on the phone with someone when you could hangout in a tropical forest or on a castle in the sky?
If the price came down sharply that might be possible...
yeah, I've dropped my ipod in a parking lot from the height of about my chest--maybe 5 feet. landed with a plunk and a hop, had a small dent on the steel corner but otherwise, was perfectly fine.
Bullshit. It absolutely WAS his first choice. But he had absolutely no international or domestic support for such a war and his attempts to link Iraq with Al Queada were (and still are) obviously dubious and simply playing on American emotion. He and his neoconservative cabinet were DRAGGED kicking and screaming to the UN by Colin Powell and the rest of the world. His questions of relevancy at the UN coupled with his rhetoric of "regime change" at home revealed his true intentions and ultimately plan of first choice: war with Iraq to ouster Saddam. If he were truly interested in the disarmament of Iraq only, we would never have heard this sort of rhetoric. Once inspectors started, Bush continued to reveal himself. When Iraq was found to have missles, some of which were able to travel past the 90 mile range-limit set by the UN (by only about 20 or 30 miles, keep in mind--certainly not far enough to create an "immediate threat" to us in the U.S. and barely far enough to create an immediate threat to their neighbors), Bush cried fowl and even while Saddam began to DESTROY the missles said that his having the missles is proof that Saddam lied, can't be trusted and therefore must be bombed. Seems to me inspections WERE working. Further, the inspectors found ZERO evidence of a nuclear arms program. And this is not to say that they simply didn't encounter any--on the contrary, they investigated SPECIFIC CLAIMS the President had used as evidence for war with Iraq and found them to be FALSE.
So you tell me, now: you really think war wasn't Bush's first choice?
Plus they give you a higher cultural score and make your citizens happy that in turn reduce the chances of a city falling into civil disorder for warmongering!
sorry, been pathetically playing way too much Civ 3 during the holidays.
And see, isn't that one of the biggest problems of the government, especially as related to technology and issues affecting and involving technology (which have gotten very prominent and will only continue to do so as technology because more and more intertwined with everythign that we do)?? We need techies to start thinking about politics and becoming politicians. Crazy, i know, but possible, I think.
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What about the idea of something like There or the more real-life-like MMORPGs serving as a sort of enhanced chat room? Yes, I know, they're like that already. But I'll never sign up for it because I'm not really interested in meeting new people--I have enough trouble keeping up with the people in my real life.
And that's exactly what would be missing from There (for me)--the people in my real life. I don't use IM to meet new people--I use it to talk to the people I already know (or meet in real life). It would be absolutely fantastic to interact with those people I know in real life in a world like There--I could think of some fun shit to do with friends. Plus like the article indicates, why talk on the phone with someone when you could hangout in a tropical forest or on a castle in the sky?
If the price came down sharply that might be possible...
Using the folder in the dock technique DOES allow for 2 click access to apps:
Right click, left click.
The problem with undifferentiated folders does, however, still exsist.
Actually, I don't think they do require it at MIT.
yeah, I've dropped my ipod in a parking lot from the height of about my chest--maybe 5 feet. landed with a plunk and a hop, had a small dent on the steel corner but otherwise, was perfectly fine.
they keyboard detracts from the cinema display much more so than the desk.
but those "regulations" aren't strict at all!! They're simply making OSS software use conform to the same standards that commercial software has to!
but aren't laws an attempt to reflect the morals and ethics of a society?
Bullshit. It absolutely WAS his first choice. But he had absolutely no international or domestic support for such a war and his attempts to link Iraq with Al Queada were (and still are) obviously dubious and simply playing on American emotion. He and his neoconservative cabinet were DRAGGED kicking and screaming to the UN by Colin Powell and the rest of the world. His questions of relevancy at the UN coupled with his rhetoric of "regime change" at home revealed his true intentions and ultimately plan of first choice: war with Iraq to ouster Saddam. If he were truly interested in the disarmament of Iraq only, we would never have heard this sort of rhetoric. Once inspectors started, Bush continued to reveal himself. When Iraq was found to have missles, some of which were able to travel past the 90 mile range-limit set by the UN (by only about 20 or 30 miles, keep in mind--certainly not far enough to create an "immediate threat" to us in the U.S. and barely far enough to create an immediate threat to their neighbors), Bush cried fowl and even while Saddam began to DESTROY the missles said that his having the missles is proof that Saddam lied, can't be trusted and therefore must be bombed. Seems to me inspections WERE working. Further, the inspectors found ZERO evidence of a nuclear arms program. And this is not to say that they simply didn't encounter any--on the contrary, they investigated SPECIFIC CLAIMS the President had used as evidence for war with Iraq and found them to be FALSE.
So you tell me, now: you really think war wasn't Bush's first choice?
Plus they give you a higher cultural score and make your citizens happy that in turn reduce the chances of a city falling into civil disorder for warmongering! sorry, been pathetically playing way too much Civ 3 during the holidays.
And see, isn't that one of the biggest problems of the government, especially as related to technology and issues affecting and involving technology (which have gotten very prominent and will only continue to do so as technology because more and more intertwined with everythign that we do)?? We need techies to start thinking about politics and becoming politicians. Crazy, i know, but possible, I think.
If that wouldn't be a direct violation of the Constitution's "limited time" provision of the copyright clause, I'm not sure what would...
Good show!