I don't see this working as a protest...it will just piss off Napster users. Don't we have enough bandwidth-wasting going on as it is? We need people wasting 4 hours grabbing an album full of bloody bird calls? I think I'll go turn on my Napster filter...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I work in advertising, too...but I'm their web ho. I constantly tell them 'no' and they are starting to learn.;-) Seriously though, marketing is all about feedback. Our clients are giddy when they get email from site visitors. It's just unfortunate that ad banners and spam have coloured everyone's opinion of 'marketing' online... The Internet is a 2-way street, you're right, but I think businesses are more open to that than you're giving them credit for. It's up to us as professional geeks to steer them in the proper direction.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Jabber my love, well said. I would just like to add that besides voter apathy among our contemporaries, our schools aren't teaching kids how politics really works. My 12th grade government class was a joke. Nobody was allowed to talk about abortion or drugs, we rarely strayed from the textbooks and were only shown how things on Capital Hill are 'supposed' to work. It would please me to no end to find a school/teacher that really fostered good intelligent debating and fact-finding among their students. But I guess in a country where we still celebrate Columbus day I shouldn't hold my breath...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
TOP SECRET! A friend of mine who runs a theatre got his copy last night and we watched it - didn't get home until 3am. But it was well worth it. I don't want to give anything away, but if anyone has any burning questions I'll dish for you.
Awesome effects (but you knew that), and I think they did a pretty good job of handling story/character development (even if you've never read the comic). Many openings left for a sequel...
Best CG scene - the Senator and Storm. Squishy and disturbing.:-)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I tend to disagree... driving at 80 mph is indeed challenging, because if you screw around you may end up dead. No one has ever been killed by a bad RAM install (despite reports to the contrary).
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Take a month off from IRC and watch your RL relationships get back to a normal level.
Ironically, I use IRC to keep in touch with my RL friends...most live within a 20 mile radius but we have some stragglers in Switzerland and Colorado (I'm on the east coast). We chat in person about as often as we do online.
Back OnT, I HOPE that we're just going through an intense implimentation phase with current technologies, and that once everyone is connected and savvy, we can start to do more telecommuting and work smarter...pipe dream, perhaps, but it's the ethic I share with my friends (who are also my business partners). Generation X is still about slack, right?;-)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
So we should abandon e-commerce as a viable outlet for business growth simply because we can't trust anyone not to sell our info? I'm glad somebody is fighting this battle; if the Net is going to become a permanent marketplace we're going to need to make sure companies stick to their promises. Being an informed consumer is one thing, but being an overly paranoid consumer might equal the death of the e-conomy.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I imagine they wouldn't do anything publicly with it (duh) because that would only make them look bad. "We caught Employee #28495 sending emails to his friends saying that our CEO owns stock in a sex toy company. Please gather in the break room for the stoning." As for your joke about affording free speech, well, we are inches away from having that freedom legislated right out from under us. Fsck these corporations - we need to educate people and start using our buying power as the Consumer Mass to topple these giants...oh sorry, was I dreaming out loud again?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I agree... I hate being out of town and not able to hear Afropop or, here lately, they've been playing the HHGTTG radio play...not to mention the news coverage and that hottie Terry Gross.;-)
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...most folks aren't savvy enough to figure that out. And as a web designer, I have to fight the battle between the fun gimicky stuff my clients want and the things that won't look like front doors/spammer tricks to the search engine bots. My $0.02? This type of thing bites a big peen. I don't revisit sites that push this junk, and try to dissuade my clients from using it.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
You beat me to it. What we have tried to do is hook up with other unsigned bands who have a good local foothold, and link-share. We push them on our friends and fans and they do the same for us (we think!). It seems to work...next step would be for us to travel to and play in each others' towns. The little guys really need to stick together and help a brother out, you know?;-) Back to your point - We've tried finding odd bands on Napster and there really aren't many there, because Napster is made up of users, and the majority of users are drooling over Britney and NSync right now. (Hork!) You can still get good radio from Shoutcast, though. There are a bunch of good Indian and Asian stations.:-)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I have suffered from the affliction you speak of. It's kinda gross after a couple hours to get up and see the sweat pool on my wrist wrest and the grime accumulated on the mouse buttons and 'W' key...not to mention the cramping fingers and throbbing forearm... But for all that, and all you guys' whining, Q2 and 3 are still great games, they serve their purpose, which is to vent steam. Nothing like sending rockets through strangers to help you forget about the day's office crap.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
What have I done to deserve this black horror? Surrounded on all sides with the Hell of Microsoft Like a George Orwell character, I'm wordy and alone Why God, Why?
Websites, monopolies, IT companies Why God, Why? Microsoft, IT companies, software Why God, Why?
What have I done to deserve this black disaster that is my life? Surrounded on all sides with the Hell of Microsoft Like a George Orwell character, I'm wordy and alone Why God, Why?
What have I done to deserve this black misery? Surrounded on all sides with the Hell of Microsoft Like a George Orwell character, I'm wordy and alone Why God, Why?
I have never been a moderator, don't want to be (I'd never get anything done) but I also realize that their grading system can sometimes let good comments fall through the cracks. So I try to skim all the comments and judge for myself...generally the ones with the most responses are the most juicy.
Yeah, duh, we should think for ourselves! I trust my mom, and my gynecologist. Everybody else is suspect.:-)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Okay let's throw this into your mix... My folks thought I was going to be a boy. My room was not pink, and growing up I had equal numbers of Barbies and Star Wars, Strawberry Shortcake and He-Man, jump ropes and speak&math. All through school I was different, smarter in some ways, but mostly oblivious to the whole cheerleading/prom queen/homecoming girlie crap. I was in show choir and drama, and the NHS. Now I am the web department for an ad agency (no typo, I'm the whole dept.) and all my friends are geeky guys. I was never pushed to be anything but successful. My little sister played sports, where I hated them, but now she's the prissy jewelry whore with no future and I'm the computer geek Sugar Mama. Not sure where I was going with that... I guess what I'm trying to say is that I agree with what you said about how kids play affecting their abilities and choices later in life...just maybe not exactly how you think it does.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
'God', as the Divine creative/destructive force of the universe that we know and see, is defined (IMO) as not being a force that shapes the universe outside of it, but rather THE force of the universe. Divinity exists in infinitely small and infinitely large space, as a part of everything. When we put human traits on our gods we partially remove ourselves from being able to understand divine presence. (Actually, putting human traits on gods and goddesses helps us to understand ourselves as humans more than anything.) I've studied lots of different religions, but this is what I've come away with. Flame on!
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
The hardest thing for parents is to see their child struggle. And so partents will use anything to make life easier for their children.
This is very true. Unfortunately, parents who try to shield their kids from such trials and tribulations WEAKEN them... if little Johnnie isn't allowed to get into any arguments or fights with his friends, he'll be a 'mama's boy' all his life, never able to stand up for himself. If little Janie is never allowed to talk to boys or learn about sex she may end up in an abusive relationship or dead from some VD before she's 30. If kids are genetically enhanced to be 'perfect', I can forsee a society that mirrors Japanese schools, with high suicide rates for the tiniest failures. Or at the very least a race of supermodels with no fscking personalities.
I can easily believe that something like "Gattaca" could happen now. What's to really stop it? You? Me? We don't have the money to fight it, and if parents around the US of A REALLY want it, by God they'll get it.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
My first big web job was building a site for a pyramid scheme company...we put up dozens of pages literally overnight at this guy's request, and it took us MONTHS to finally get paid. I felt slimy writing code for that man. (Shudder) These cons are all over the net, you're right, but judging from the number of 'read this email! it's true!' notes I get forwarded to me by clueless coworkers and family, the fact that this guy got caught is pretty amazing. Stupidity, and more importantly ignorance, go unchecked online. "If it's on the computer it must be true." Ack.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Perhaps something like "alt://" instead of "http://"
Hey that's great! How many Joe Schmucks EVER type in the 'http://'? Most browsers now treat http:// much like an 'understood You' in grammar. (Meaning, even if you don't type it, the browser knows you MEANT to.) Unless browsers included a little option box that pops up every time a prefix-less domain was typed in that asked Mr. User if they want http or alt or whatever, I don't know that your idea is too kosher. All too often, techies forget about all the Internet newbies and AOL dorks out there who have to deal with these 'simple solutions'.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
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I don't see this working as a protest...it will just piss off Napster users.
Don't we have enough bandwidth-wasting going on as it is? We need people wasting 4 hours grabbing an album full of bloody bird calls?
I think I'll go turn on my Napster filter...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I work in advertising, too...but I'm their web ho. I constantly tell them 'no' and they are starting to learn. ;-)
Seriously though, marketing is all about feedback. Our clients are giddy when they get email from site visitors. It's just unfortunate that ad banners and spam have coloured everyone's opinion of 'marketing' online... The Internet is a 2-way street, you're right, but I think businesses are more open to that than you're giving them credit for. It's up to us as professional geeks to steer them in the proper direction.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
To all the AC's, follow my links, you'll see for yourselves. :-P
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Jabber my love, well said.
I would just like to add that besides voter apathy among our contemporaries, our schools aren't teaching kids how politics really works. My 12th grade government class was a joke. Nobody was allowed to talk about abortion or drugs, we rarely strayed from the textbooks and were only shown how things on Capital Hill are 'supposed' to work. It would please me to no end to find a school/teacher that really fostered good intelligent debating and fact-finding among their students. But I guess in a country where we still celebrate Columbus day I shouldn't hold my breath...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Well, not exactly... Orin got caught listening to some illegal mp3's of Lard songs.
Woo...Jabber, my new Karma Pimp Daddy, that one's for you.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
TOP SECRET! A friend of mine who runs a theatre got his copy last night and we watched it - didn't get home until 3am. But it was well worth it.
:-)
I don't want to give anything away, but if anyone has any burning questions I'll dish for you.
Awesome effects (but you knew that), and I think they did a pretty good job of handling story/character development (even if you've never read the comic). Many openings left for a sequel...
Best CG scene - the Senator and Storm. Squishy and disturbing.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I tend to disagree... driving at 80 mph is indeed challenging, because if you screw around you may end up dead. No one has ever been killed by a bad RAM install (despite reports to the contrary).
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
From their site:
:-/
The system is telling you that the only way to send a secure, encrypted message is to send it to another Hushmail user.
It's a closed system...they can't encrypt for anyone but their own users.
Thanks for trying, please play again.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Internet wiretaps are conducted only under state or federal judicial order, and occur relatively infrequently.
Oh, good! I guess that guy from alarmist.org was wrong this whole time! Phew, now I can safely go back to surfing for underage Asian girlie pron!
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Take a month off from IRC and watch your RL relationships get back to a normal level.
;-)
Ironically, I use IRC to keep in touch with my RL friends...most live within a 20 mile radius but we have some stragglers in Switzerland and Colorado (I'm on the east coast). We chat in person about as often as we do online.
Back OnT, I HOPE that we're just going through an intense implimentation phase with current technologies, and that once everyone is connected and savvy, we can start to do more telecommuting and work smarter...pipe dream, perhaps, but it's the ethic I share with my friends (who are also my business partners). Generation X is still about slack, right?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
So we should abandon e-commerce as a viable outlet for business growth simply because we can't trust anyone not to sell our info? I'm glad somebody is fighting this battle; if the Net is going to become a permanent marketplace we're going to need to make sure companies stick to their promises. Being an informed consumer is one thing, but being an overly paranoid consumer might equal the death of the e-conomy.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I imagine they wouldn't do anything publicly with it (duh) because that would only make them look bad. "We caught Employee #28495 sending emails to his friends saying that our CEO owns stock in a sex toy company. Please gather in the break room for the stoning."
As for your joke about affording free speech, well, we are inches away from having that freedom legislated right out from under us. Fsck these corporations - we need to educate people and start using our buying power as the Consumer Mass to topple these giants...oh sorry, was I dreaming out loud again?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I agree... I hate being out of town and not able to hear Afropop or, here lately, they've been playing the HHGTTG radio play...not to mention the news coverage and that hottie Terry Gross. ;-)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
...most folks aren't savvy enough to figure that out. And as a web designer, I have to fight the battle between the fun gimicky stuff my clients want and the things that won't look like front doors/spammer tricks to the search engine bots.
My $0.02? This type of thing bites a big peen. I don't revisit sites that push this junk, and try to dissuade my clients from using it.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
You beat me to it. ;-) :-)
What we have tried to do is hook up with other unsigned bands who have a good local foothold, and link-share. We push them on our friends and fans and they do the same for us (we think!). It seems to work...next step would be for us to travel to and play in each others' towns. The little guys really need to stick together and help a brother out, you know?
Back to your point - We've tried finding odd bands on Napster and there really aren't many there, because Napster is made up of users, and the majority of users are drooling over Britney and NSync right now. (Hork!) You can still get good radio from Shoutcast, though. There are a bunch of good Indian and Asian stations.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I have suffered from the affliction you speak of. It's kinda gross after a couple hours to get up and see the sweat pool on my wrist wrest and the grime accumulated on the mouse buttons and 'W' key...not to mention the cramping fingers and throbbing forearm...
But for all that, and all you guys' whining, Q2 and 3 are still great games, they serve their purpose, which is to vent steam. Nothing like sending rockets through strangers to help you forget about the day's office crap.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
"Why"
Monopolies, computers, software
Why God, Why?
Computers, court cases, Microsoft
Why God, Why?
What have I done to deserve this black horror?
Surrounded on all sides with the Hell of Microsoft
Like a George Orwell character, I'm wordy and alone
Why God, Why?
Websites, monopolies, IT companies
Why God, Why?
Microsoft, IT companies, software
Why God, Why?
What have I done to deserve this black disaster that is my life?
Surrounded on all sides with the Hell of Microsoft
Like a George Orwell character, I'm wordy and alone
Why God, Why?
What have I done to deserve this black misery?
Surrounded on all sides with the Hell of Microsoft
Like a George Orwell character, I'm wordy and alone
Why God, Why?
Why God, Why?
Why God, Why?
Why God, Why?
Why God, Why?
(Make your own at http://www.brunching.com/toys/t oy-alanislyrics.html - I did it, jabber!)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I have never been a moderator, don't want to be (I'd never get anything done) but I also realize that their grading system can sometimes let good comments fall through the cracks. So I try to skim all the comments and judge for myself...generally the ones with the most responses are the most juicy.
:-)
Yeah, duh, we should think for ourselves! I trust my mom, and my gynecologist. Everybody else is suspect.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Okay let's throw this into your mix...
My folks thought I was going to be a boy. My room was not pink, and growing up I had equal numbers of Barbies and Star Wars, Strawberry Shortcake and He-Man, jump ropes and speak&math. All through school I was different, smarter in some ways, but mostly oblivious to the whole cheerleading/prom queen/homecoming girlie crap. I was in show choir and drama, and the NHS. Now I am the web department for an ad agency (no typo, I'm the whole dept.) and all my friends are geeky guys. I was never pushed to be anything but successful. My little sister played sports, where I hated them, but now she's the prissy jewelry whore with no future and I'm the computer geek Sugar Mama.
Not sure where I was going with that... I guess what I'm trying to say is that I agree with what you said about how kids play affecting their abilities and choices later in life...just maybe not exactly how you think it does.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
'God', as the Divine creative/destructive force of the universe that we know and see, is defined (IMO) as not being a force that shapes the universe outside of it, but rather THE force of the universe. Divinity exists in infinitely small and infinitely large space, as a part of everything. When we put human traits on our gods we partially remove ourselves from being able to understand divine presence. (Actually, putting human traits on gods and goddesses helps us to understand ourselves as humans more than anything.) I've studied lots of different religions, but this is what I've come away with.
Flame on!
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I would like to know the universal definition of 'perfect'...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
The hardest thing for parents is to see their child struggle. And so partents will use anything to make life easier for their children.
This is very true. Unfortunately, parents who try to shield their kids from such trials and tribulations WEAKEN them... if little Johnnie isn't allowed to get into any arguments or fights with his friends, he'll be a 'mama's boy' all his life, never able to stand up for himself. If little Janie is never allowed to talk to boys or learn about sex she may end up in an abusive relationship or dead from some VD before she's 30. If kids are genetically enhanced to be 'perfect', I can forsee a society that mirrors Japanese schools, with high suicide rates for the tiniest failures. Or at the very least a race of supermodels with no fscking personalities.
I can easily believe that something like "Gattaca" could happen now. What's to really stop it? You? Me? We don't have the money to fight it, and if parents around the US of A REALLY want it, by God they'll get it.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Good Question! Moderate up! ;-)
Please don't turn it into a Scientology plug, I would be quite disappointed.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
My first big web job was building a site for a pyramid scheme company...we put up dozens of pages literally overnight at this guy's request, and it took us MONTHS to finally get paid.
I felt slimy writing code for that man. (Shudder)
These cons are all over the net, you're right, but judging from the number of 'read this email! it's true!' notes I get forwarded to me by clueless coworkers and family, the fact that this guy got caught is pretty amazing. Stupidity, and more importantly ignorance, go unchecked online. "If it's on the computer it must be true." Ack.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Perhaps something like "alt://" instead of "http://"
Hey that's great! How many Joe Schmucks EVER type in the 'http://'?
Most browsers now treat http:// much like an 'understood You' in grammar. (Meaning, even if you don't type it, the browser knows you MEANT to.) Unless browsers included a little option box that pops up every time a prefix-less domain was typed in that asked Mr. User if they want http or alt or whatever, I don't know that your idea is too kosher.
All too often, techies forget about all the Internet newbies and AOL dorks out there who have to deal with these 'simple solutions'.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk