Interesting question - along with all the other "Will it include my favourie series" questions. At the moment, the BBC sells videos, dvds, audio tapes of its shows. Now I would think this brings in a reasonable amount of revenue. But if all the content is to be given away for free, surely these will die away?
HL / CS: Souperman
Online games: Cerebus (as in the Aardvark)
RPGs (electronic): Bascule (from Feersum Endjinn by Ian M Banks)
RPGs (tabletop): Recent ones include Sir Cecil the Paladin, Milo the Halfling Bard (complete with squeeky voice and bad jokes - guaranteed to wind up those other players!), and Demo the iconoclastic Fighter/Cleric (Lots of DnD recently!)
"...though Microsoft is not mentioned, people might start to understand what a monoculture of poor quality software enables."
Shouldnt that read: "... though Microsoft is not mentioned, we thought we might use this as an excuse to attack them anyway."
I mean I understand MS doesnt exactly have a large fanbase here but that is frankly ridiculous.
Spent FAR too much time playing it on my old Amiga 500.
So many memories...
The countless raids on Maraciabo...
The capturing of all those towns for England...
The first time I managed to get the really Foxy chick to marry me...
True email spam would be hard to police this way. I think its more targeted at SMS spam, which is a growing annoyance. There have been a couple of high profile cases with gullible people ringing premium rate numbers to claim there special "prize".
Yup - they also have some traffic cameras that issue spead tickets that way here too. Most Speed cameras are still the old radar trap ones, but there is also the SPECS system which uses your average speed. There are some in Nottingham, and I wouldnt have known unless I had been in my Bosses car - he has widget with a database of all known speed cameras linked up to a GPS antenna, so his car tells him if he needs to slow down. Immoral but clever.
In the UK and Europe we have the Trafficmaster system. There are blue camera posts at signifcant points along major roads that take you number plate - the system then compares the time between two cameras for each plate to work out congestion. You can subscribe to get the data real time, and its displayed at motorway service stations, etc.
... In the first film it they intimated that they didnt really know much history - they didnt even know the date. This seems to show quite a detailed history of what happened.
Its also quite sympathetic to the machines. If you are one of the last of a group which has almost been wiped out, you are unlikely to see your history from the point of view of those who did the wiping.
There is very good reason for genetic research into Bananas. Almost all Banans eaten in the world are from a single species, which is almost sterile - note the lack of seeds in your lunchtime Banana. There are several diseases which, if they got into the main Banana growing parts of the world, could seriously threaten the very existence of the Banana. This would be devastating for many small, poor countries, as they not only rely on the Banana economically, but as a staple food as well.
Check out this months New Scientist.
I like mozilla - I'm using it right now. Tabbed browsing is what sells it for me. But you cant get away from using IE all the time - there are some sites that I have visited that just dont come out right in Mozilla. Now Iknow this is because he site author has used MS-specific stuff, but it means that for now at least its impossible not to keep a copy of IE around for those sites.
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Interesting question - along with all the other "Will it include my favourie series" questions. At the moment, the BBC sells videos, dvds, audio tapes of its shows. Now I would think this brings in a reasonable amount of revenue. But if all the content is to be given away for free, surely these will die away?
*points to clue dispenser* :)
Buy shares in the Robot companies! Do it now!
Ahhh - I can't resist!
HL / CS: Souperman
Online games: Cerebus (as in the Aardvark)
RPGs (electronic): Bascule (from Feersum Endjinn by Ian M Banks)
RPGs (tabletop): Recent ones include Sir Cecil the Paladin, Milo the Halfling Bard (complete with squeeky voice and bad jokes - guaranteed to wind up those other players!), and Demo the iconoclastic Fighter/Cleric (Lots of DnD recently!)
"...though Microsoft is not mentioned, people might start to understand what a monoculture of poor quality software enables."
Shouldnt that read:
"... though Microsoft is not mentioned, we thought we might use this as an excuse to attack them anyway."
I mean I understand MS doesnt exactly have a large fanbase here but that is frankly ridiculous.
Whoever modded it as "interesting" had both humour and science genome removed!
Going a long way straight up is not the same as going in to orbit!
99% of entries will confirm to these basic idea
o This is my only Tshirt you Insensitive Clod!
o CowboyNeal is my Kalvin Clein
or
In Soviet Russia Slashdot tshirts design YOU
or
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of me
or
1) Design tshirt
2) ?????
3) PROFIT!
This is why I love /.
Ask for movies of stuff been blown up, et voila!
I think what ruins it more than that is that the apparent "fix" is to go out and spend another £40 on a new version of the game!
I demand video of things been blown up!
... how do they breed? I mean - they are stuck in a pit!
So not only did they have binary - they had Oracle.
Thangyouverymuch I'll be here all week.
Neal Stephenson was right! Its Snow Crash!
Spent FAR too much time playing it on my old Amiga 500.
So many memories...
The countless raids on Maraciabo...
The capturing of all those towns for England...
The first time I managed to get the really Foxy chick to marry me...
Like Jack Kerouac's on the road then. Hey - maybe that was the first ever Blog.....
All we need is some wealthy old maid to sponsor the project. Shed be Buying an Elevatorway to Heaven.
Its going to be one of those days...
Try Celebdaq. Its run by the BBC and it actually has its own TV show on BBC3...
:-)
Entertaining for a while - like a month or two. Still - I made a killing from Cilla and Jacko
True email spam would be hard to police this way. I think its more targeted at SMS spam, which is a growing annoyance. There have been a couple of high profile cases with gullible people ringing premium rate numbers to claim there special "prize".
Yup - they also have some traffic cameras that issue spead tickets that way here too. Most Speed cameras are still the old radar trap ones, but there is also the SPECS system which uses your average speed. There are some in Nottingham, and I wouldnt have known unless I had been in my Bosses car - he has widget with a database of all known speed cameras linked up to a GPS antenna, so his car tells him if he needs to slow down. Immoral but clever.
In the UK and Europe we have the Trafficmaster system. There are blue camera posts at signifcant points along major roads that take you number plate - the system then compares the time between two cameras for each plate to work out congestion. You can subscribe to get the data real time, and its displayed at motorway service stations, etc.
... In the first film it they intimated that they didnt really know much history - they didnt even know the date. This seems to show quite a detailed history of what happened.
Its also quite sympathetic to the machines. If you are one of the last of a group which has almost been wiped out, you are unlikely to see your history from the point of view of those who did the wiping.
There is very good reason for genetic research into Bananas. Almost all Banans eaten in the world are from a single species, which is almost sterile - note the lack of seeds in your lunchtime Banana. There are several diseases which, if they got into the main Banana growing parts of the world, could seriously threaten the very existence of the Banana. This would be devastating for many small, poor countries, as they not only rely on the Banana economically, but as a staple food as well. Check out this months New Scientist.
Do the words "Tempered safety glass" mean anything to you?
I like mozilla - I'm using it right now. Tabbed browsing is what sells it for me. But you cant get away from using IE all the time - there are some sites that I have visited that just dont come out right in Mozilla. Now Iknow this is because he site author has used MS-specific stuff, but it means that for now at least its impossible not to keep a copy of IE around for those sites.