No doubt. All this talk of mind power and "energy"... no thanks, I think I will stick to conventional relaxation techniques that don't profess this granola-eating mumbo-jumbo. Meditation is about self-control, not this pseudo-scientific hippy shit. </flame mode> That's just my opinion though. I personally believe true happiness is found lifting bars with weights on the end. YMMV.
Check this game out: Teenage Lawnmower You're a 17-year-old kid, and your alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend are making your life hell. Try to save your family by raising money through your lawn mowing business.
I guess independant games often suffer from the same juvenile wierdness that independant movies suffer. (Witness the fortunately removed alternate ending of Clerks to see what I mean)
It also used the mouse for control, which was a cool yet flawed idea. The main problem was you could swing your sword (or axe, or some orc's arm) by starting with the mouse in the upper left and pulling it down and to the right.
But if your attack was blocked, your character's arm would go back to the upper left while your mouse would be at the lower right. You would either pick up the mouse and put it to the upper left or (as was often the case with me) you would swing the weapon in a follow through stroke, but since you weren't matched up with the game anymore, things would just go to shit.
A force-feedback joystick may have made this more intuitive, but I used a mouse. I actually beat the bloody game eventually too, but it degenerated into me using very specific attacks over and over.
The game itself wasn't that good either - very little variety in the enemies, environments, etc. The graphics were a bit crappy too.
Our currency in Canada is coloured funny as well, but it isn't so "day-glo" looking... and we have shiny foil (goes green to gold) on some of our currency as well.
"Reached level 88 Amazon in Diablo II" on your resume.
If anything, it reveals you have a sense of humour. I may just do something like that if I ever find myself job hunting again, since I prefer to work for people with a sense of humour.
If having Solitaire and Minesweeper on every computer weren't bad enough...
My company removes those games (completely, not just the shortcuts). Mostly I just slack off by reading stuff on the Internet (www) myself. I don't even surf much at home anymore - today being an exception as it is a holiday.
I mean, IE implements the tags correctly and you all just noticed? Yet again we see that Microsoft IE is ahead of the game, implementing useful tags that the w3 hasn't even thought of yet.
Why is it that Microsoft is saddled with the burden of creating useful standards? Isn't this supposed to be the job of the w3?
I expect we'll have to wait a few years to see it in Moz and by then, microsoft will have implemented <input type explode into tiny pieces> or something even more spectacular.
Fuck ethics, this is bigger than that. It's an entire shift in the human experience.
If everyone has this technology, we would probably no longer care about privacy. We want privacy because some of us (rightfully!) have something to hide, such as being gay.
But if everyone can read each other's minds, the need disappears because every last one of us would be laid bare before our peers. How do you discriminate if everyone is a "pervert"?
Now, if the government (the big bad government:)gets this type of technology but common people don't, then we have reason to panic.
All the more reason to pursue this technology agressively - if it's inevitable, it's one thing that we better all have!
However, there are good counter-arguments. We all have thoughts like "Man, I'd like to beat that guy up" even though we don't mean it later on.
Would we eventually lose "free will" and become automatons that are incapable of thinking outside the societal mores?
Is lying fundamental to humanity? Or would we be better off without it?
The problem is that they were parodying American McGee by using a registered trademark. They clearly weren't parodying Strawberry Shortcake - if they were, it would be more clear cut. Not that we wouldn't see a C&D letter anyways...
For the record though, I love PA and hope they make it through ok. And you just have to respect em for making a stink even if they did pull the offending strip originally. They're as subtle as a heart attack:)
Perhaps you're right, but online voting would help disabled people vote and could possibly make elections cheaper.
It would may also be easier in general to vote - I'm not apathetic, but I don't like waiting for several hours to vote either. I'm sure all the others here that *do* vote wouldn't say no to an easier way to vote.
There are other reasons I am sure I haven't thought of as well.
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You didn't play in the bathroom? Amateur...
Well, the device does measure galvanic (sp?) skin response. Sounds like a glorified e-meter (?) to me...
No doubt. All this talk of mind power and "energy"... no thanks, I think I will stick to conventional relaxation techniques that don't profess this granola-eating mumbo-jumbo. Meditation is about self-control, not this pseudo-scientific hippy shit.
</flame mode>
That's just my opinion though. I personally believe true happiness is found lifting bars with weights on the end. YMMV.
Heh, the more pissed off you get, the harder the puzzles get! Yay!
Check this game out:
:)
Teenage Lawnmower
You're a 17-year-old kid, and your alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend are making your life hell. Try to save your family by raising money through your lawn mowing business.
I guess independant games often suffer from the same juvenile wierdness that independant movies suffer. (Witness the fortunately removed alternate ending of Clerks to see what I mean)
Word Ninja looks pretty cool though
It also used the mouse for control, which was a cool yet flawed idea. The main problem was you could swing your sword (or axe, or some orc's arm) by starting with the mouse in the upper left and pulling it down and to the right.
But if your attack was blocked, your character's arm would go back to the upper left while your mouse would be at the lower right. You would either pick up the mouse and put it to the upper left or (as was often the case with me) you would swing the weapon in a follow through stroke, but since you weren't matched up with the game anymore, things would just go to shit.
A force-feedback joystick may have made this more intuitive, but I used a mouse. I actually beat the bloody game eventually too, but it degenerated into me using very specific attacks over and over.
The game itself wasn't that good either - very little variety in the enemies, environments, etc. The graphics were a bit crappy too.
heh - It looks like monopoly money.
Our currency in Canada is coloured funny as well, but it isn't so "day-glo" looking... and we have shiny foil (goes green to gold) on some of our currency as well.
George Foreman Grill laptop?
I had one of those. Well, I could've probably cooked eggs on it if I had wanted to, anyhow...
... as he reached for the soap.
"Reached level 88 Amazon in Diablo II" on your resume.
If anything, it reveals you have a sense of humour. I may just do something like that if I ever find myself job hunting again, since I prefer to work for people with a sense of humour.
If having Solitaire and Minesweeper on every computer weren't bad enough...
My company removes those games (completely, not just the shortcuts). Mostly I just slack off by reading stuff on the Internet (www) myself. I don't even surf much at home anymore - today being an exception as it is a holiday.
It's long, but interesting and he's looking for feedback.
Just say those words out loud to random people. Trust me, it's fun.
THey said it was a long article. And this is slashdot. Therefore, I deduce that nobody is reading it.
Maybe the slashdot effect is all a lie...?
I mean, IE implements the tags correctly and you all just noticed? Yet again we see that Microsoft IE is ahead of the game, implementing useful tags that the w3 hasn't even thought of yet.
Why is it that Microsoft is saddled with the burden of creating useful standards? Isn't this supposed to be the job of the w3?
I expect we'll have to wait a few years to see it in Moz and by then, microsoft will have implemented <input type explode into tiny pieces> or something even more spectacular.
Fuck ethics, this is bigger than that. It's an entire shift in the human experience.
:)gets this type of technology but common people don't, then we have reason to panic.
If everyone has this technology, we would probably no longer care about privacy. We want privacy because some of us (rightfully!) have something to hide, such as being gay.
But if everyone can read each other's minds, the need disappears because every last one of us would be laid bare before our peers. How do you discriminate if everyone is a "pervert"?
Now, if the government (the big bad government
All the more reason to pursue this technology agressively - if it's inevitable, it's one thing that we better all have!
However, there are good counter-arguments. We all have thoughts like "Man, I'd like to beat that guy up" even though we don't mean it later on.
Would we eventually lose "free will" and become automatons that are incapable of thinking outside the societal mores?
Is lying fundamental to humanity? Or would we be better off without it?
Ow, my brain hurts.
Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
I might as well go eat space-worms
Experimental juicey ones,
Pencil-tip sized ones,
See how they wiggle and skwirm.
The problem is that they were parodying American McGee by using a registered trademark. They clearly weren't parodying Strawberry Shortcake - if they were, it would be more clear cut. Not that we wouldn't see a C&D letter anyways...
:)
For the record though, I love PA and hope they make it through ok. And you just have to respect em for making a stink even if they did pull the offending strip originally. They're as subtle as a heart attack
Now that was funny!
I run windows 2000 without a firewall! Can't get more dangerous than that!
(I'm joking. I have a firewall and I am actually getting portscanned right now - wheeee)
I pretend they're midget wookies...
I liked it enough to buy the DVD, but it ain't the Coolest. Movie. Ever.
Maybe the best movie based on a video game (though Final Fantasy was as good too).
Perhaps you're right, but online voting would help disabled people vote and could possibly make elections cheaper.
It would may also be easier in general to vote - I'm not apathetic, but I don't like waiting for several hours to vote either. I'm sure all the others here that *do* vote wouldn't say no to an easier way to vote.
There are other reasons I am sure I haven't thought of as well.
It's NOT a TUMOR!
wouldn't the nerf ball have to be full of water when it was frozen? Foam would have h2o, but a nerf ball wouldn't, afaik.
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Interviewee: One sec
Interviewer: Well?
Interviewee: *BSD is dead.
Interviewer: You're hired!