I agree, a wee bit too contrived. The best 4/1 jokes slip right past you. I think over the years we have all learned to become hyper critical of stories posted on 4/1 thus making it harder and harder to slip one by.
The summer after my first year at college I went to a temp agency. I worked a couple of all time shit jobs for a few weeks each.
The first was at a place called Golden State Foods that was a major packaging and distributor for McDonalds. You know the little Chicken McNugget Sauces with the white trays? My job was to stand there for 8 hours a day with only a break for lunch and load those little white 5x5 trays onto the conveyor belt right before the sauce was splooged into them from Giant(1000 Gallons) vat of McNugget Sauce. If I missed one(or even a row) the sauce would squirt everywhere. This was a huge, dangerous Seussian machine that took an hour to clean up all the caked on sauce at the end of the day. While a worked there, someone lost a finger in the meat grinding plant, luckally I only lost my dignity.
The second half of that brutal summer was spent at the Maxell Plant packaging VHS tapes. This was the late 80's and there were tons and tons and tons and tons of them.
I was just kinda summing up what makes a good games. We agree on Gameplay, by Graphics I wasn't necessarily implying it has to be a ground breaking like Doom3 should be, but visually appealing:)
Sure there will be lots of people will rush out buy these on the day they are released(or even pro-order them). If they are crap, however, word will spread. That would turn them into Hits instead of MegaHits. And with the develpment cycle and resources that went into each of those games, they Need to be Megahits for them to be profitable.
While I agree with most of the article, I don't know about this line:
But it is not just EA chasing after proven material. Upcoming titles such as "Halo 2," "Half-Life 2," "Doom III" and "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" are all expected to top sales charts this year, in large part because the games that preceded them were so successful.
Sure this will get them noticed more, but if the games don't have innovative graphics and gameplay, the popularity of the previous titles is not going to mean shit.
It may soon be their problem monetarily. IMHO, they made a Huge mistake in not having their IPO earlier as their 'superior technology' is increasingly being compromised.
I personally see this as a Huge Growing Problem that will rival Email Spam and Virii/Worms in the coming months as a detriment to productivity/commerce/etc on the internet. If 50%+(don't know the actual #, but it's probably close) rely on a particular site to search for information and that site has serious flaws which are increasingly being compromised and exploited, there is a problem ahead; a Big One.
They're not really tricking the search engine... they're simply generating content.
Huh?
Check out this page which is promoting bombing Michael Moore. I use this page as it is a nice antithesis to the Bush search. I don't care whom it refers to, just that it is wrong.
From the site:
Once you have signed up construct a simple website, fill it up with your shopping list, a log of what you had for lunch or whatever, it doesn't matter (or how about a nice Glenn Beck fan site, but please
When you update your website, which should be a couple of times a week, be sure to include the following HTML at some point:
Michael <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a> Moore
These people are clearly Not providing content, but Are Tricking Google. And they(Google) Should do something about it.
Put aside the joke and you have arguably one of the most powerful information tools in the history of internet (and the world?) being hijacked by it's own algorithms.
There have been numerous stories here and else ware lately about tricking Google. Things like this and those search engine Spam sites are seriously starting to skew the intent of a search engine (i.e., provide links to relevant pages)
It says here that you must have line of sight to the tower. Might work better in the west or places were a tower can be placed really high. Bellsouth had a similar system(Not sure if they still offer it) in Atlanta where they were placing anteneas in Pine Trees in order to reach the tower. Big storm and there goes TV.
Also,
I want a system where I can pick each and every channel individually. I'd only want about 12-15 of them and I'd be willing to pay.50/channel:)
my company is initiating a 'no cell phone' policy I am considering refusing to take work calls or text messages on my personal cell phone
Reminds me of the old cartoons where they talked the other guy into saying what they want.
'no your not'
'yes I am'
'no your not'
'yes I am'
'yes your are'
'no I'm not'
and even quitting in protest of the new policy
Now That's a bit drastic. Surely if there is a business need, they would allow exceptions.
On second thought, just go ahead and quit. Stick your tongue out and say 'na-na-na-na-na-na' when you do.
I don't want to come across as Mr. Clean here, my keyboard is as nasty as the next guy.
We were talking about this just a couple of days ago, because they have been teaching it to the kids in school. You should always Sneeze into your elbow, doctors have been doing this for years.
Have ya ever seen that commercial where the park ranger is pouring all the Metamucil down the Old Faithful? This could have serious adverse effects on the entire caldera. I mean, you can only pinch the cheeks for so long. It's bound to blow soon.
All of the software reviews online and in magazines have 'Power', 'Usability', 'Quality', etc.
What they forget to include and is high on my list is footprint/intrusiveness. Sure RAM is cheap, but it's quite annoying when dozens of these things are running.
Besides Real Player, QuickTime, Acrobat and numerous other programs want to always be there hogging all my memory.
My new HP printer got great reviews and prints great photos, but why the hell are there 4 programs always loaded eating 20MB+ of memory. Same for my Epson scanner and Digital Camera.
I want these programs to be quickly available without hogging 20MB each. This is Windows-centric, but I often look at family/friends computers that are 'running slow' and one look at the screen shows 10/15/20 icons in the system tray spreading half way across the desktop.
Can someone point me to something truly funny on that site? I've clicked through techisms and bossisms and have yet to crack a smile, much less ROFLMAO.
Dreamweaver MX is one of a very few intuitive, powerful, fun to use apps that exist.
Many of it's features were integrated from Homesite, which I was using to program Cold Fusion web pages back in 1996. They took the 'coder's editor'(Homesite) and integrated it with he 'designers editor'(Dreamweaver) and created one Really Powerfull web desing app.
My only problem with it is that the latest version 2004MX is kinda slow on my computer. My computer is an Athlon 1900+/512MG. Most programs are pretty snappy on my system. I'm holding off upgrading until I get the final HL2/Doom3 specs:)
We need a middle ground between completely free and expensive sponsored links.
There would still be sponsored links, that would pay big bucks per click, etc.
So unless google/overture lower their rates low enough to make it unprofitable for the search engine spammers
Google wouldn't lower Any rates, they would add a new middle, registered rate. The purpose of this rate being to remove spam. If this registered rate charges by keyword, the spammers could not possibly keep up. They have some algorithm where they have possibly thousands of keywords on their pages that get spidered and they also link to other spam search pages. If each of these sites had to register these 1000's of keywords, it could not be profitable.
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I agree, a wee bit too contrived. The best 4/1 jokes slip right past you. I think over the years we have all learned to become hyper critical of stories posted on 4/1 thus making it harder and harder to slip one by.
Are you kidding me? Did you not see the web site? The Screenshots?? This one is definately going to keep me satiated until Doom3 comes out.
Must be April 1st
The first was at a place called Golden State Foods that was a major packaging and distributor for McDonalds. You know the little Chicken McNugget Sauces with the white trays? My job was to stand there for 8 hours a day with only a break for lunch and load those little white 5x5 trays onto the conveyor belt right before the sauce was splooged into them from Giant(1000 Gallons) vat of McNugget Sauce. If I missed one(or even a row) the sauce would squirt everywhere. This was a huge, dangerous Seussian machine that took an hour to clean up all the caked on sauce at the end of the day. While a worked there, someone lost a finger in the meat grinding plant, luckally I only lost my dignity.
The second half of that brutal summer was spent at the Maxell Plant packaging VHS tapes. This was the late 80's and there were tons and tons and tons and tons of them.
Sure there will be lots of people will rush out buy these on the day they are released(or even pro-order them). If they are crap, however, word will spread. That would turn them into Hits instead of MegaHits. And with the develpment cycle and resources that went into each of those games, they Need to be Megahits for them to be profitable.
But it is not just EA chasing after proven material. Upcoming titles such as "Halo 2," "Half-Life 2," "Doom III" and "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" are all expected to top sales charts this year, in large part because the games that preceded them were so successful.
Sure this will get them noticed more, but if the games don't have innovative graphics and gameplay, the popularity of the previous titles is not going to mean shit.
Snap a couple of pictures, turn on a dime then fly right back out?
Fly through the other open window on the other side of the building?
Fly through window, Then EXPLODE... Now That would be cool.
It sure would be nice to have a facility to just delete these. Maybe just delete all but one of them to get around the censorship issue.
A Short Flaccid Penis
A High Mortgage Rate
High Insurance Rates
A Hugh Amount of Debt
No Online Diplomas
Does Not work from home..
The Argosy ebook reader, which should be in US market soon supposedly has PDF support. This would be a Great feature.
While not 'EInk', here's a couple of others that will hopefully make it to our market soon They also use energy only when turning pages:
I emailed these people and was informed this Chinese Ebook would be available on Amazon in Q2 of this year.
This Panasonic Sigmabook ebook was just launched in Japan and hopefully will make it here soon.
Change their algorithm
Why is that Google's problem?
It may soon be their problem monetarily. IMHO, they made a Huge mistake in not having their IPO earlier as their 'superior technology' is increasingly being compromised.
I personally see this as a Huge Growing Problem that will rival Email Spam and Virii/Worms in the coming months as a detriment to productivity/commerce/etc on the internet. If 50%+(don't know the actual #, but it's probably close) rely on a particular site to search for information and that site has serious flaws which are increasingly being compromised and exploited, there is a problem ahead; a Big One.
Huh?
Check out this page which is promoting bombing Michael Moore. I use this page as it is a nice antithesis to the Bush search. I don't care whom it refers to, just that it is wrong.
From the site:
Once you have signed up construct a simple website, fill it up with your shopping list, a log of what you had for lunch or whatever, it doesn't matter (or how about a nice Glenn Beck fan site, but please
When you update your website, which should be a couple of times a week, be sure to include the following HTML at some point:
These people are clearly Not providing content, but Are Tricking Google. And they(Google) Should do something about it.
Put aside the joke and you have arguably one of the most powerful information tools in the history of internet (and the world?) being hijacked by it's own algorithms.
There have been numerous stories here and else ware lately about tricking Google. Things like this and those search engine Spam sites are seriously starting to skew the intent of a search engine (i.e., provide links to relevant pages)
Doh!; Never mind me, I can't read the difference between an h and an s
I can't believe none of the mods have noticed this, but the speed of light is 186,000miles(300000km) per second.
Also, .50/channel :)
I want a system where I can pick each and every channel individually. I'd only want about 12-15 of them and I'd be willing to pay
I am considering refusing to take work calls or text messages on my personal cell phone
Reminds me of the old cartoons where they talked the other guy into saying what they want.
'no your not'
'yes I am'
'no your not'
'yes I am'
'yes your are'
'no I'm not'
and even quitting in protest of the new policy
Now That's a bit drastic. Surely if there is a business need, they would allow exceptions.
On second thought, just go ahead and quit. Stick your tongue out and say 'na-na-na-na-na-na' when you do.
We were talking about this just a couple of days ago, because they have been teaching it to the kids in school. You should always Sneeze into your elbow, doctors have been doing this for years.
Have ya ever seen that commercial where the park ranger is pouring all the Metamucil down the Old Faithful? This could have serious adverse effects on the entire caldera. I mean, you can only pinch the cheeks for so long. It's bound to blow soon.
What they forget to include and is high on my list is footprint/intrusiveness. Sure RAM is cheap, but it's quite annoying when dozens of these things are running.
Besides Real Player, QuickTime, Acrobat and numerous other programs want to always be there hogging all my memory.
My new HP printer got great reviews and prints great photos, but why the hell are there 4 programs always loaded eating 20MB+ of memory. Same for my Epson scanner and Digital Camera.
I want these programs to be quickly available without hogging 20MB each. This is Windows-centric, but I often look at family/friends computers that are 'running slow' and one look at the screen shows 10/15/20 icons in the system tray spreading half way across the desktop.
But these guys who learn Klingon(Add now Elvish) are out there, a solid 12 or more.
Can someone point me to something truly funny on that site? I've clicked through techisms and bossisms and have yet to crack a smile, much less ROFLMAO.
Many of it's features were integrated from Homesite, which I was using to program Cold Fusion web pages back in 1996. They took the 'coder's editor'(Homesite) and integrated it with he 'designers editor'(Dreamweaver) and created one Really Powerfull web desing app.
My only problem with it is that the latest version 2004MX is kinda slow on my computer. My computer is an Athlon 1900+/512MG. Most programs are pretty snappy on my system. I'm holding off upgrading until I get the final HL2/Doom3 specs :)
We need a middle ground between completely free and expensive sponsored links.
There would still be sponsored links, that would pay big bucks per click, etc.
So unless google/overture lower their rates low enough to make it unprofitable for the search engine spammers
Google wouldn't lower Any rates, they would add a new middle, registered rate. The purpose of this rate being to remove spam. If this registered rate charges by keyword, the spammers could not possibly keep up. They have some algorithm where they have possibly thousands of keywords on their pages that get spidered and they also link to other spam search pages. If each of these sites had to register these 1000's of keywords, it could not be profitable.